Identifies conceptual and methodological issues in investigating educational leadership processes and their impact across different cultural settings, discussing views of school leadership research, definitions of school leadership in comparative studies, and types of methodological issues that will surface in conducting studies across cultures or…

Reviews a collection of articles on role-based, outcome-based, standards-based, and structure-based approaches to assessing school principals' work, noting that the impact of the larger political and social context surrounding the school on the principal presents a formidable challenge in assessing the quality of the principal's work. (SM)

Reviews selected literature on administrative evaluation and focuses on four topics: (1) linking principals to school effectiveness as an outcome; (2) increasing awareness of school contextual indicators affecting leadership and effectiveness; (3) the effects of structural reform on the principal's role; and (4) assessing principal's performance…

Examines the principal assessment process in measuring accountability for facilitating academic improvement. The article raises several conceptual and methodological issues on developing principal assessment models, provides data on issues in the development of evaluation models for principal assessment, and presents a basic model for principal…