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2005

Leadership academies

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The Relationships Among Selected Demographic Variables, School Settings, Attendance In Leadership Academies, And The Self -Perceptions Of Secondary School Principals, Margie Shepard Bell Apr 2005

The Relationships Among Selected Demographic Variables, School Settings, Attendance In Leadership Academies, And The Self -Perceptions Of Secondary School Principals, Margie Shepard Bell

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose and research objectives of this study were to determine the perceptions of secondary principals toward the importance of specific skills necessary in performing their roles as school principals, their degree of preparation in the specific skills needed to perform their positional roles, and the helpfulness of certain training practices and courses included in their leadership preparation programs. The sample population consisted of the 191 public secondary school principals in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas who responded to a questionnaire developed by the researcher specifically for this study. Multivariate Analysis of Variance revealed a significant difference between gender and the …