Nebraska Adult Basic Education (ABE) program administrators have been studied in terms of their general characteristics and part-or full-time positions in an attempt to gather data to assist in future program development, administrator recruitment, and administrator training programs. A questionnaire was sent to all known administrators in the…

A fundamental distinction is made between basic research which seeks out new, generalizable knowledge, and administrative research which provides information useful to decision makers who have a task to perform. Attention is then given to four types of administrative research: background research, formative research, summative research, and policy…

Since the size of the small school presents difficulties in implementation of in-service programs, program development should be carefully considered. Initially, faculty support must be gained via: (1) careful needs assessment; (2) solicitation and utilization of outside consultants (from universities, the Department of Public Instruction, and/or…

Revised every 10 years, this manual includes specific instruments for evaluating schools to appraise their quality and to encourage staffs to seek better materials and procedures. Evaluation is based on the principle that a school should be evaluated in terms of what it is striving to accomplish and according to the extent to which it is meeting…

ERIC abstracts on competency-based evaluation of the educational staff, announced by this and other clearinghouses in RIE through July 1973, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "Administrator Evaluation,""Evaluation Criteria,""Evaluation Methods," and "Teacher Evaluation." The documents include materials defining…

This article is an attempt to assist professors of school administration in the planning of their instructional activities. Its purpose is to present a planning framework by which the type and level of learning desired can be matched with the most appropriate, feasible, and effective processes for attaining that learning. A model is presented for…

The major theme of Report Card 1 is enrollment projections. Reports in this section include: Barwick and Stafford's "Statewide Enrollment Projections for North Carolina, 1975-80"; Reiman's "Assumption-Based Model for Developing Institutional Enrollment Projections"; Rajasekhara's "Enrollment Projection," dealing with…

The chairman of the College Senate along with representatives from the administrative staff, the local council, and the student body developed this evaluation instrument to sample the attitudes, opinions and beliefs of the faculty, staff, and student body regarding the performance of the college's president. The evaluation criteria included: (1)…

Reviews the year's most decisive school developments as they relate to the publication "A Nation at Risk" and examines areas largely untouched by recent reforms. Includes a chart comparing all 50 states in 15 education-related categories and reports on some recent reforms that could become trends. (IW)

Over the last 25 years, the field of school administration has experienced turmoil as it has struggled to grow out of its adolescence. A good deal of energy has been invested in coming to grips with the question of what ideas should shape school administration. This paper chronicles the role of one of the most significant reshaping initiatives to…

One individual's experience as dean, provost, and president at different universities suggests that a dean's success depends on choosing appropriate key goals for the school, then persisting until they are accomplished. Other important elements include a regular, formal review process, explicit agreements about returning to full-time teaching,…

Sixteen articles describe the status of program evaluation in the federal government by showing how evaluation is organized in the government. A review of evaluation in the legislative and executive branches is followed by a review of the major organizations producing evaluation work. (SLD)

This paper offers highlights from the final report of Stanford's School Leadership Study, which should be available in January 2007. It discusses various policy and resource factors that enhance or impede the implementation of exemplary programs that develop and support principals. Among the research questions that guided this study were a set…

This study was conducted to identify critical incidents which presidents, administrators, faculty, and student services personnel reported as examples of effective and ineffective leadership behaviors of community college presidents. Of the 1,491 surveys mailed to personnel at 11 Iowa community colleges, 511 were returned, yielding 709 effective…

This document suggests an agenda for restructuring New York City elementary schools and improving their leadership, based on interviews with 25 inner-city elementary school principals. Participants were selected on the basis of their competence and their commitment to the education of economically disadvantaged students. The following policy and…