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The Principal as Technology Leader: The Skills E-Learners Consider Essential to the Creation of a Technology-Rich School Community

This study examined the skills that e-learners considered essential to the creation of a technology-rich school community. The focus was upon the skills that acting district and school administrators deemed essential to becoming an effective e-leader.
The quantitative investigation associated with this study consisted of a researcher created survey based upon the International Society of Technology Educators (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A). The intent of this survey was to obtain a list of skills that the participants felt were necessary for administrators to obtain in order to be effective leaders. These skills are categorized into both theory-based and operational.
The qualitative investigation examined interview data from one-on-one interviews. The interviews were conducted in order to obtain a greater insight into the views of school-based and district-based administrators in terms of technology leadership.
The intent of this study was to investigative and gather information in order to create online self-paced professional development opportunities for school and district administrators.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LSU/oai:etd.lsu.edu:etd-11062008-105226
Date07 November 2008
CreatorsSeneca, Tammy Sue
ContributorsMargie Thomas, Janice Hinson, Yiping Lou, Eugene Kennedy, Roland Mitchell
PublisherLSU
Source SetsLouisiana State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11062008-105226/
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