Recent research links the development of a collaborative community of educators to enhanced teaching and learning effectiveness. This study contributes to this research by testing a work group effectiveness model with a sample of teachers from middle school teams. The study assesses the interrelationships among the model's antecedent variables…

Discusses a study of interdisciplinary teacher teams during the second-year implementation of teaming in a middle school. Based on observations and interviews, this article identifies the major context, design (structure), and process features of each of the four teams, and discusses implications for practice. (Contains 51 references.) (MLH)

The four articles in this special issue stress the importance of producing knowledge in educational administration that has high utility and high quality. Five summary principles are discussed, along with recommendations for improving research coordination and making research findings more accessible to policy makers and administrators. (MLH)

Cryss Brunner's edited volume is a well-organized review of gender issues in school administration. It offers clues about administrative roles and concepts integral to the field and furthers understanding of women's administrative experiences. The studies lay an excellent foundation for further empirical investigations into causes of women's…

Explores how teacher teams influence middle-school teachers' work characteristics and other work-related variables. Participating teachers whose jobs had a work-group emphasis (interdisciplinary teaming) reported significantly higher skill variety, knowledge of students, satisfaction, professional commitment, motivation, and team helpfulness and…

Explores the problem of a male/female salary differential for professors, discusses relevant factors explaining this disparity, and applies a model for detecting compensation bias to a sample of educational administration professors' salaries. Results indicate that a significant proportion of the salary variance is explained by gender. Includes 31…

Examines typical explanations for general male/female salary differentials and questions their relevance for educational administrators. Applies a model used to detect gender bias to a sample of elementary school principal salaries, revealing that gender accounts for a small but statistically significant portion of salary variance. This…

Examines relationships among overall leadership in schools, 4 organizational functions (adaptation, goal achievement, integration, and latency), and 4 school-effectiveness measures (perceived organizational effectiveness, student achievement, student absenteeism, and staff turnover rates). Also considers leadership roles of principals, teachers,…