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Young, I. Phillip; Sever, Wesley Richard – Journal of School Public Relations, 2011
Screening decisions of female and male middle school principals were examined for applicants varying in national origin (Hispanic versus non-Hispanic) and type of job experience (direct versus indirect) for a middle school principalship. Principals' reactions were assessed according to perceived qualifications of applicants, probability of…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Personnel Selection, Work Experience, Gender Differences
Kwan, Paula – International Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This article reports a study designed to examine the mediating effect of vice-principals' job satisfaction on the relation between their responsibility roles and career aspirations. Based on a Hong Kong data set, the study confirmed that responsibilities had both a direct effect and an indirect effect on career aspiration; the latter was mediated…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Occupational Aspiration
Koyama, Jill; Kania, Brian – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
In the United States (US), an increase in standardization, quantification, competition, and large-scale comparison--cornerstones of neoliberal accountability--have been accompanied by devices of transparency, through which various forms of school data are made available to the public. Such public reporting, we are told by politicians and education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Politics, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
Loman, Sheldon L.; Horner, Robert H. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2014
This study evaluated the effects of manualized training in "Basic" functional behavioral assessment (FBA) for typical school professionals on the ability of these professionals to complete technically adequate FBAs. Twelve school professionals participated in four 1-hr training sessions using the Basic FBA training handbook. After…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, School Personnel, Training, Staff Development
Pang, Nicholas Sun-Keung; Pisapia, John – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
This paper reports an investigation into the strategic thinking skills of school leaders in Hong Kong. By adapting the Strategic Thinking Questionnaire in the school context and based on data self-reported from 543 Hong Kong school leaders, three cognitive capabilities with strategic thinking were identified: reflection, systems thinking and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Questionnaires, Reflection
Adewusi, Aderogba Oladiran – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
This paper focused on how Nigeria' teeming youth requires a high level of seriousness from all stakeholders: the student, school administrators, teaching staff, parents, educational agencies and the government. There had been much emphasis on the need for everyone to understand and play specifically assigned roles, and to ensure that the posterity…
Descriptors: Discipline, Foreign Countries, Principals, Assistant Principals
Garrard, John Christian Timothy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
To identify how high school assistant principals in large suburban schools serve as instructional leaders and how they develop these skills, this research utilized a multiple-case study design, followed by a cross-case analysis of the data. This research explores the instructional leadership of three female comprehensive high school assistant…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, High Schools, Assistant Principals, Rating Scales
Workman, Everette H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The role of the assistant principal in the public schools is under studied and undervalued. As the largest group of school administrators and as future principals in training, the assistant principals' socialization process begs understanding. This study questions the transition from teacher to assistant principal, accounting for the setting and…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Beginning Principals, Public Schools, Administrators
Lampton-Holmes, Geneva Cosweler – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if seventh through twelfth grade educators' attitudes towards School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) are affected based on their gender, years of experience, school discipline policy, leadership style, and knowledge of SWPBS. Through an online survey, an analysis of the leadership style and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Aravena, Janet Lynch – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
Every teacher knows that exposure to new information is one small part in the teaching and learning process. Before students truly learn a concept, they must actively engage with material--discussing, sharing, seeing, and practicing it--to make it their own. In other words, they need to "connect" with concepts and have opportunities to apply them…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Leadership Training, Leadership Effectiveness, Professional Development
Higgins, Joanna; Bonne, Linda – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: This article examines how and why four leadership functions are enacted in an elementary school, with a focus on hierarchical and "heterarchical" configurations of leadership. Research Design: The data were collected using an exploratory 2-year case study approach, and the data set comprises one-on-one interviews and relevant school…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Best, Marguerita L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Framed in the critical race theory of structuration (CRTS), this sequential explanatory mixed methods study seeks to identify the socialization practices by examining the realities of practices of assistant principals and the ways in which they impact the disciplinary actions of assistant principals at middle and high schools. The mixed methods…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Educational Change, Socialization, Critical Theory
Keaveny, Stacy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Federal and state guidelines for school reform dominate the landscape of public education. Florida and its school districts, as a Race to the Top state, are in the process of fully implementing a value-added model of teacher evaluation. Effective school leaders are calling upon the theoretical framework of transformational, visionary and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Education, Instructional Leadership, Value Added Models
Shoho, Alan R., Ed.; Barnett, Bruce, Ed.; Tooms, Autumn K., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship. As noted in all the chapters, the assistant principal is a critical partner in creating a professional learning community that serves all students well. Often neglected or ignored in the literature, assistant principals are more than disciplinarians and…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrator Responsibility
Xaba, M. I. – South African Journal of Education, 2012
I analysed school facilities maintenance, a school governance function in South Africa. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 principals and three deputy principals as coordinators of this function at their schools. The interviews were purposively and conveniently selected to gather data regarding school facilities maintenance and gain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Facilities Management, School Buildings