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Developing A Small School District Organizational Profile Utilizing A Theoretical Model, Edward Leon Hensley

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study developed an evaluation instrument profiling selected components identified in the Getzels-Guba Theoretical Model of a Social System. The instrument targeted public school districts with enrollments of 5000 students or less applying the components of the Model. These components were often not included in the assessment procedures or programs of school districts, but were the phenomena of an informal and highly neglected area of evaluation with respect to school organization. The study surveyed teacher attitudes toward their organization using the components of identity, loyality, communication, teamwork, security and purpose; The research of the literature was unsuccessful in revealing a …