- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Teachers perceptions of principals in schools trained for effectiveness, 1987
- Creator:
- Duncan, Frank
- Date of Original:
- 1987-07-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to determine if a school system treats a group of schools in the lower social-economic area of the county with an inservice program based on the effective school characteristic in the literature, will the treatment predict a factorized effective school characteristic at a level greater than the control schools. The design was a quasi-experimental quasi-survey using three groups, experimental, control, and non-experimental group to control for the Hawthorne Effect. Data was collected using System Analysis of Principal's Instructional Supervisor's Behavior developed by Dr. Gange Persaud at Atlanta University. From a population of 277 teachers 60% responded. The data was analyzed by correlational techniques (running SPSS statistical packages) in order to test the hypothesis. Factor analyses were used. This research has examined an effective school experiment after two years and found no statistically significant differences among schools. Interesting, it was found that the family of variables thought to characterize the effective school factored into three groups rather than a single group. Another interesting finding has to do with how principals are perceived in the post teaching conference. Among the variables identified as Effective Supervision, Post Teaching Observation Judgment was seen as a negative perception. The variables believed to constitute the effective school characteristic in the experiment were divided into groups named Effective Student Expectation and Effective Supervision. These groups of variables appeared to be inputs whose output influence a group of variables named Effective Schools characteristics in this study. It is recommended that teachers and administrators be sensitized to race through inservice training. Effective School Characteristics should be examined to delineate, and determine other possible grouping of variables. Administrators and supervisors should examine their behavior during the post teaching observation conference in terms of the judgment teachers may perceive.
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Education (EdD)
Granting institution: Atlanta University
Department: Department of Education
Advisor: Persaud, Ganga - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1987_duncan_frank.pdf
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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