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Role Perceptions Of Elected And Appointed School Board Members And Their Superintendents In Virginia, Karen Lynn Peterson Kolet
Role Perceptions Of Elected And Appointed School Board Members And Their Superintendents In Virginia, Karen Lynn Peterson Kolet
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate role perceptions of elected and appointed school board members and their superintendents in Virginia to determine if increased citizen participation and cultural change had affected the process of school governance. Four policy issue areas provided the context for revealing role perceptions: Administration and Organization, Business and Financial Management, Employee and Pupil Personnel Services, and Curriculum and Instruction. A 27-item survey was sent to superintendents and school board members of 64 school divisions, 31 of which had appointed boards and 33 of which had elected boards. Eighty-four percent of the superintendents and 61% …
Administrative Response To Teacher Incompetence: The Role Of Teacher Evaluation Systems, Pamela Dupriest Tucker
Administrative Response To Teacher Incompetence: The Role Of Teacher Evaluation Systems, Pamela Dupriest Tucker
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The major purpose of this study was to assess the presence of evaluation system components which assist principals in responding to teachers with less than satisfactory performance. Research data were used to determine the relationship between specific teacher evaluation system components and two measures of evaluation system effectiveness: (a) the principal's overall effectiveness rating of the evaluation system and (b) the incidence of administrative response to teacher incompetence. Administrative response included remediation, reassignment, inducement to retire or resign, and recommendation for dismissal of teachers. A questionnaire was employed to collect data from a randomly selected sample of principals in Virginia's …