The purpose of the study was to identify and compare the instructional leadership behaviors of principals, department heads, and other administrative staff (i.e., assistant principals, curriculum and/or instructional specialists/coordinators, guidance counselors, etc.) as perceived by principals and selected teachers in effective high schools in Florida--schools with mean student scores of 90% or above on the Florida SSAT. / A survey instrument entitled Instructional Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire (ILBDQ) was developed to solicit perceptions of principals and teachers in effective high schools concerning their schools' instructional leaders. Ninety- five principals and 184 teachers responded to this instrument, representing response rates of 55.90% and 54.12%, respectively for the principals and selected teachers surveyed. In addition to demographic data, the instrument elicited Likert-type responses to 32 items in the following instructional behavior categories: (a) Provides leadership; (b) Has high expectations; (c) Provides instructional assistance; (d) Demonstrates instructional expertise; (e) Holds himself/herself accountable; (f) Provides staff development; (g) Has good human relation/communication skills; and (h) Provides effective instructional supervision/evaluation. / Comparisons of perceptions of teachers with those of principals was achieved through determination of means (((')X) and standard deviation (SD), and by the use of the Mann-Whitney U-test. Results indicated that principals in the sample had strong positive perceptions of their own instructional leadership behaviors (((')X = 3.93 out of a possible 5.00 combined category rating). Principals' rating of department heads as instructional leaders produced a mean of 3.13; for other administrative staff, the mean was 3.48. Teachers' mean rating of principals on the combined categories was 3.30; for department heads, 3.07; and for other administrative staff, 2.80. Differences in mean rating between principals and teachers were significant at P (LESSTHEQ) = .05 (2-tailed) for principals and other administrative staff in all eight behavior categories in the study. The results, however, showed some strong agreement between principals' and teachers' perceptions concerning departments heads' instructional leadership role. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0037. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75727 |
| Contributors | IBRAHIM, ADAI SOOLIMAN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 149 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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