The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of disciplinary background on the leadership styles of academic deans. The researcher conducted a nation-wide survey of academic deans from a wide range of disciplines. Specifically, the study sought to determine whether the disciplinary backgrounds of university deans are reflected in their self-reported actions, decision-making, and role perceptions. Subjects’ disciplines were categorized according to high-consensus and low-consensus fields as well as the pure/applied dichotomy. Four dimensions of organizational leadership (bureaucratic, collegial, political and symbolic) were utilized to define the subjects’ potential cognitive frames. The subjects’ use of cognitive frames were classified into predominantly single-, paired-, or multi-framed approaches. Descriptive statistics, mean comparisons, and logistic regression were utilized to analyze the behaviors and motivations of subjects in the study.

Dissertation (Ed.D.)--University of Toledo, 2008. / Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Education Doctorate Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision." Bibliography: leaves 156-169.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996. / Issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Frank Smith. Dissertation committee: Jon Hughes. Dissertation Committee: John Hughes. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-231).

Thesis (DPsych) -- School of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009. / Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009". Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-189)

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Texas Christian University, 2009. / Title from dissertation title page (viewed Oct. 29, 2009). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1975. / Title from title page screen, viewed Nov. 12, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Ben C. Hubbard, Clayton F. Thomas, Clifford Edwards, Ronald Halinski, William Gnagey. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-94) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

Thesis, PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

The Charnes Cooper Rhodes ratio DEA model ("CCR") is used, with panel data from a large sample of Massachusetts' school districts, to test three propositions concerning the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 ("MERA"). First, did the degree of positive correlation between Socio-Economic Status ("SES") and educational outcomes decrease, secondly did educational opportunity become more equal among towns in Massachusetts, and finally were education standards raised overall? The CCR model is a Linear Programming method that estimates a convex production function using Koopmans' (1951) definition of technical efficiency and the radial measurements of efficiency proposed by Farrell (1957). It has been widely used in Education Production Function research. The pursuit, through state and federal courts, of equitable funding, allied to the belief that smaller class sizes improve outcomes, has made K-12 education expensive. The belief that outcomes are in constant decline has led to calls for "Accountability" and to "Standards" reform. Standards reform was combined, in MERA, with reform of state aid formulas and additional state funding, to ensure a minimum basic level of education pursuant to the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in McDuffy v. Robertson. The one certain relationship revealed by decades of research is a strong positive correlation between SES and outcomes. If MERA ensured a higher basic level of education, then the correlation between SES and outcomes should have weakened as the education of less well SES-endowed children improved. The CCR model was used first to measure "correlation" between multiple input and multiple output variables. Strong positive correlation was shown to exist and it appeared to strengthen rather than weaken. Next the CCR model was used to determine if there were changes in the distribution of per pupil expenditures and, lastly to determine whether outcomes improved between after MERA. The analysis suggested that the distribution of expenditures improved but that outcomes deteriorated. This deterioration seems to be closely related to the changes in the proportion of all students, in a grade, actually taking the tests. There is little evidence that MERA achieved anything and no basis upon which to argue that it achieved nothing.