Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 10 Issue 1

Behind the Resource Domino Part I: Acquisition

C.S. BUMBARGER, F.C. THIEMANN

There is, in the literature on administration, a general implication that resource levels are to be largely taken as givens, operating as constraints within which the…

Criteria Employed by High School Principals in Evaluating Teachers in Victoria

E. BARRINGTON THOMAS

Principals' evaluation of teachers for classroom and administrative promotion was the focus of this study. Data were collected from 230 principals of Victorian high schools by…

Organizational Control Strategies and the Emergence of Trust

JAMES A. BELASCO

The purpose of this study was to examine the relutionsliip of the control structure in selected public educational systems as perceived by teachers and the expressed willingness…

Some Further Notes on the OCDQ

WAYNE K. HOY

Although there is some support for the use of the OCDQ in secondary schools, more recent studies of organizational climate have raised doubts as to the validity of the instrument…

Innovation in a Large State Primary School

C.E. BADHAM

A Principal's decision to change the “graded” organization of pupils in a large primary school in New South Wales forms the basis for this report. Using the Clark and Guba…

Life Cycle Leadership Theory: Some Empirical Evidence

KEITH F. PUNCH, DAVID J. DUCHARME

Initiating Structure and Consideration provide a simple, powerful and popular way of describing the behaviour of leaders. Tile determination of leader effectiveness poses added…

Pluralistic Ignorance and Pupil Control Ideology

JOHN S. PACKARD, DONALD J. WILLOYVER

Pupil control ideology, which is expressed in terms of a custodial‐humanistic continuum, refers to educators' views concerning the rights and status of the school's pupil clients…

On Visiting School Systems Overseas

ALAN TRETHEWEY

Visiting schools or other educational establishments in foreign countries can be as much as a hazard as a help in understanding the educational system in other places. To provide…

Structural and Administrative Decentralization in Education: A Clarification of Concepts

MARK HANSON

In this paper the sometimes confusing concepts of structural centralization and decentralization and administrative centralization and decentralization are classified. Brief…