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Actual And Ideal Principal Interpersonal Behaviour, John Cresswell, D Fisher
Actual And Ideal Principal Interpersonal Behaviour, John Cresswell, D Fisher
Dr John Cresswell
This study of school environment compared teachers' actual and ideal perceptions of principals' interpersonal behaviour. The article describes the development and validation of the Principal Interaction Questionnaire (PIQ), and reports profiles of mean scores obtained for teachers' perceptions of actual and ideal principals' interpersonal behaviour. The study showed that there was a number of significant differences between perceptions of actual and ideal interpersonal behaviour of principals.
A Study Of Principals' Interpersonal Behaviour And School Environment, John Cresswell
A Study Of Principals' Interpersonal Behaviour And School Environment, John Cresswell
Dr John Cresswell
This thesis describes a research study that investigated associations between teachers' perceptions of principals' interpersonal behaviour and psychosocial environments of secondary schools in Australia. In the past 25 years, much attention has been given to the development and use of instruments to assess the qualities of the classroom and school environment from the perspectives of students and teachers. A new instrument (the Principal Interaction Questionnaire) was developed and validated to measure principals' interpersonal behaviour as perceived by their teachers. The instrument was developed from the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction. The teachers' perceptions of the school environments are assessed by the …