A recent Florida statute requires that public school principals receive training sufficient to ensure the effective evaluation of teacher performance. Nine training areas were identified pursuant to this statute. The purpose of this study was to identify the inservice training needs of Florida public school principals relative to these nine training areas. The specific questions that were investigated included: (1) Which of the nine training areas did principals most frequently perceive the need for inservice training? (2) Which of the nine training areas did teachers most frequently perceive the principals' need for inservice training? (3) What were the preferred modes of inservice training of principals in each of the nine training areas? (4) What differences existed, if any, in the inservice needs of principals relative to the size of the school's instructional staff? (5) What differences existed, if any, in the inservice needs of elementary, middle, and high school principals relative to each of the nine training areas? (6) What were the predominant inservice training needs as perceived by principals and teachers in each of the five Florida reporting regions as classified by the Florida Department of Education? / A needs assessment instrument which included a personal data section was sent to selected Florida public school principals and teachers to ascertain the inservice needs of principals in each of the nine training areas as perceived by both principals and teachers. This instrument was also used to ascertain the preferred mode of inservice training delivery for each of the nine training areas. A five point Likert scale was used to rate the principals' need for inservice training in each of the nine training areas. Results of this study indicated that the principals perceived their predominant needs for inservice training to be in areas concerned with the administrative and technical aspect of teacher evaluation. On the other hand, teachers perceived their principals' predominant needs for training in the evaluation of teachers to be in the areas concerned with principals' interactions with teachers. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, Section: A, page: 1634. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75095 |
| Contributors | BARNES, BARBARA KININESSI., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 167 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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