The purpose of the study was to describe the differences and similarities in the knowledge structures (cognitive scripts) of expert and novice elementary school principals on the same common task in a specified area of job performance. Consistent with this purpose, the study was designed to: (a) determine if expert and novice elementary principals hold commonly shared cognitive scripts for common work tasks; (b) describe and compare the knowledge structures of expert elementary principals on the same common task in a specified area of performance; (c) describe and compare the knowledge structures of novice elementary principals on the same common task in a specified area of performance; and (d) compare the knowledge structures of expert elementary principals with the knowledge structures of novice principals on the same common task. / The cognitive knowledge structures of ten expert and ten novice north Georgia elementary principals was studied using a research design similar to the one used in the fundamental research on the nature of managerial cognitive knowledge structures conducted by Longenecker, Gioia, and Sims (1983). The research design for this study included five steps: generating, coding, sorting/labelling, retranslating, and analyzing the cognitive scripts of the expert and novice elementary principals. / From the results of this study it was concluded that expert elementary school principals retain well-defined, procedurally specific cognitive scripts, for the common task described in this study. Novice elementary school principals however, retain only moderately well-defined, cognitive scripts for the common task described in this study. / Additionally, it was concluded that while expert and novice elementary school principals retain similar scripts for the common work task described in this study; the degree of similarity in content and structure varies significantly. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-10, Section: A, page: 3484. / Major Professor: William R. Snyder. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76499 |
| Contributors | Cernogorsky, Stephen Anthony., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 170 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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