Performance management is an important managerial tool that directs employees' goals and behavior toward the organization's strategic goals. This article focuses on simulation-based training in performance management systems. The simulation developed at the School of Business Administration of the College of Management in Israel is based on a…

This book presents the largest and most comprehensive look at the men and women leading the nation's public schools. This profile of the school superintendency offers a close examination of: (1) superintendents' personal characteristics, professional experience, and professional preparation and training; (2) superintendent/school board relations;…

Eighteen of the 19 school districts in Delaware responded to the Department of Public Instruction's request for information on administrative job descriptions and evaluation instruments. This paper analyzes the 17 usable evaluation instruments that were submitted in terms of their rating scales, categories and items, specificity of evaluation,…

Author attempted to stabilize his own thoughts on how an administrator could effectively use Enabling Behaviors as a tool for evaluating teachers. (Author/RK)

In 1985, a leadership liaison committee consisting of the board presidents and executive directors of five state school management associations in Pennsylvania appointed a task force to examine the board-superintendent relationship within a team management framework. After providing background information, including various definitions associated…

Now that educational reform has targeted principal performance as a key to school excellence, methods and procedures for evaluating these administrators have become an increasing concern. Current studies suggest that evaluation practices used in many districts are ill-suited to improving principals' performance and professional competence. Many…

The effective evaluation of superintendents can be of great use to both school boards and the superintendents themselves. This booklet on superintendent evaluation begins with an outline of the general development of evaluation methods from informal assessments to sophisticated, mutually conducted, written performance reviews. The uses of essay…

The author examines four major questions that arise when administrator evaluation is under consideration: (1) How can the evaluation of administrators be made nonthreatening? (it can't be, but an atmosphere of trust can help alleviate this difficulty); (2) Should the evaluation of administrators be for individual improvement or for decisions…

This study described the initial development of a Committee Role Rating Scale (CRRS) and a Conference Role Semantic Differential (CRSD) as measures of these specific roles common to administrators at all educational levels. Although the CRRS showed general construct validity, the small amount of common variance accounted for by the factors and the…

During the spring of 1973, an indepth survey of the status of pupil personnel services in New York school districts was conducted as part of the State Education Department's regular program for such studies. The survey was a cooperative effort of the Division of Pupil Personnel Services, the Bureau of Educational Data Systems, and the Bureau of…

Questionnaires were used to gather data from 1955-1969 industrial arts graduates and state public secondary school administrators in order to evaluate the undergraduate industrial arts program at South Dakota State University. Among the findings were: (1) 53 percent of the graduates are teaching, (2) Prevalent teaching areas are woodworking,…

This report sets forth the results of a study to develop a plan to reduce the technical and human problems of administrator salary administration, and to strengthen the ability of a school district to acquire leadership consistent with its purposes. Major targets of the study were: (1) development of position responsibility descriptions for all…

Assessment of senior officials, according to this report, is designed to improve performance in terms of systems objectives. Assessment is defined as the measurement of the distance between performance desired and performance achieved. The author suggests that in developing an evaluative system the school system should first spend a lot of time,…

In an attempt to identify and develop the unique competencies and contributions of supervisors a list of 180 technical skills of science supervisors was reviewed by a national jury comprised of four panels: state science supervisors, local science supervisors, science educators, and directors of National Science Foundation institutes for science…