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50 Years of ERIC
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Color of Money as Compared to Color of Principals: An Assessment of Pay for Male Elementary School Principals Varying in Surname (Hispanic vs. Non-Hispanic)
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Young, I. Phillip; Castaneda, Jose M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Background: Pay is an important human resource function that has attracted considerable interest within the professional literature and this study addresses pay discrimination. Purpose(s): To address pay for a particular protected group unaddressed in existing literature (Hispanic-surnamed principals). Setting: The setting for this study is public…
Descriptors: Research Design, Human Capital, Public Schools, Predictor Variables
An Evaluation of the Relative Efficiency for Various Relevant Labor Markets: An Empirical Approach for Establishing Teacher Salaries
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Young, I. Phillip; Delli, Dane A.; Miller-Smith, Kimberly; Buster, Amy – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2004
Costs associated with teacher salaries are relative in that these costs are referenced to a relevant labor market rather than based on the absolute value of the services provided by teachers. Because the selection of a relevant labor market can substantially influence the costs associated with teacher salaries, a field study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Least Squares Statistics, Labor Market, Teacher Salaries
Asian, Hispanic, and Native American Job Candidates: Prescreened or Screened Within the Selection Process.
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Young, I. Phillip; Fox, Julie A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2002
To examine staff selection within the context of federal age and race discrimination in employment legislation, high school principals screen hypothetical job candidates of varying chronological age and national origin for either a teacher or an assistant principal position. Finds the screening decisions are influenced by age and national origin.…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Age Discrimination, High Schools, Principals
The Validity of the Teacher Perceiver Interview for Predicting Performance of Classroom Teachers.
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Young, I. Phillip; Delli, Dane A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2002
Preemployment responses on commercial interview protocol purported to predict future teacher performance are assessed relative to postemployment ratings of principals and to behavioral actions of newly hired teachers. Results indicate that a percentage of the systematic variance associated with postemployment performance is accounted for by…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Interviews, Predictive Measurement
Salary Discrimination: A Test of the Paradoxical Female Hypothesis.
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Young, I. Phillip – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1999
To test the paradoxical female hypothesis (satisfaction with salary underpayment), researchers surveyed a random sample of school chief finance officers. Female officers (unlike their male counterparts) receiving less than their entitled salaries enjoyed the same level of pay satisfaction as female and male officers receiving more than their…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Salary Wage Differentials
Dimensions of Employee Compensation: Practical and Theoretical Implications for Superintendents.
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Young, I. Phillip – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1997
Explores compensation practices fundamental to the school board/employee exchange relationship, using a sample of 615 midwestern superintendents. Employs an organizational justice model, focusing on its procedural and distributive dimensions. Explores procedural justice via market-rate earnings equations and distributive justice by examining…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Compensation (Remuneration), Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Teacher Recruitment: A Test of the Similarity-Attraction Hypothesis for Race and Sex.
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Young, I. Phillip; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1997
Summarizes a study that manipulated the race and sex of teacher applicants and organizational representatives to produce demographically similar and dissimilar pairings. Varied recruitment messages to reflect different groupings of homogeneous attributes related to economic incentives, work environment, or work itself. Racially similar pairings…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Hypothesis Testing
Administrators' Perceptions of Teacher Candidates in Dyad and Panel Interviews.
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Young, I. Phillip – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
In a simulated teacher selection experiment, 44 school administrators were randomly assigned as interviewers to dyad or panel interview situations, along with 66 teachers as either interviewees or panel interviewers. Administrators conducting dyad interviews had different evaluations of interviewee employability and interview performance than did…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Interviews, Simulation
The Effects of Recruitment Brochure Content and Gender of the Reactor for Doctoral Programs in Educational Administration.
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Young, I. Phillip; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1990
Student recruitment for doctoral programs in educational administration is an important topic that has escaped experimental study. In a recent study, reactions of female and male teachers, as potential administrator candidates, were more positive when recruitment brochures stressed program requirements and expectations, rather than the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Educational Administration, Expectation, Higher Education