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Principal's Leadership Style And Science Research Associates Test Scores, Kevin William Whirdy
Principal's Leadership Style And Science Research Associates Test Scores, Kevin William Whirdy
Master's Theses
The purpose of this study was to determine if the principal' s leadership style had a positive effect on students' Science Research Associates Composite Test scores. The correlational method of research was used on fifteen randomly selected public high schools with school populations between six hundred and nine hundred students in the State of Virginia. The Principal Leadership Style Questionnaire was used t o ascertain the leadership style of the principal. The Likert Profile of a School Questionnaire was used to measure the climate of the school.
The results showed a significant correlational coefficient between the principal' s leadership style …
An Attributional Analysis Of Students' Reactions To Success And Failure, Donelson R. Forsyth
An Attributional Analysis Of Students' Reactions To Success And Failure, Donelson R. Forsyth
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Like it or not, evaluation is as much a part of education as is learning. In most schools and universities students are regularly tested and evaluated by their teachers, who communicate their appraisals in the form of a grade. When the papers are handed back, the grades are posted, or report cards are sent home, students find out if they have succeeded or if they have failed.
How do students react to these academic evaluations? According to a growing number of studies, the answer to this question depends upon their attributions: students' inferences about the causes of their performances and …