The purpose of this study is to explore relevant issues concerning the evaluation of the principals of the elementary schools in Kaohsiung city, and in return, to provide a basis for the municipal administrators to conduct evaluation of the principals in the future.
Applying the method of ¡§literature analysis¡¨, both domestic and international studies on the evaluation of the principals were collected and analyzed. These studies include basic concepts, establishment of criteria, methods of implementation, appointment of evaluators, application of the evaluation finds, and other relevant procedures. A questionnaire was designed to look into the viewpoints and the variance of the viewpoints of the educators, administrators, parents, and experts of the elementary schools. Regarding the prominent ideas rendered by various groups of people, a second phase questionnaire under the Delphi Method was prescribed. A common understanding was thus achieved.
The questionnaire was distributed to 630 elementary school related subjects, including educators, administrative staff, parents, and experts. The response rate was 82.72% (523 specimens). The analysis
The major procedures of data analysis were both qualitative and quantitative. In qualitative analysis, comments in the questionnaire were individually considered. In quantitative analysis, the formal questionnaire adopted statistical processes like percentage, frequency, mean, analysis of variance, and Shefield comparison. The second phase Delphi Method focused on 15 subjects including education experts, principals, parents, teachers and administrators. Both the quantitative and qualitative analyses were applied to achieve a common understanding from different functional groups on the evaluation of the principals.
Based on findings of this study, conclusions are drawn as follow:
1.Currently, Bureau of Education of Kaohsiung City has not developed the official standards for evaluating the effectiveness of the elementary school principals.
2.The variance of the viewpoints between elementary school principals and teachers varied according to different evaluation issues.
3.The variance of viewpoints regarding principal evaluation issues varied according to participants¡¦ specific backgrounds.
4.New school culture is imperative to cultivate the mutual trust relationship between the principals and the teachers.
5.Conclusions regarding specific evaluation issues are drawn as below:
-The purposes of principal evaluation are not only developmental-oriented but also and administrative-oriented.
-With experts and researchers¡¦ assistance, the principal evaluation criteria need to be jointly developed by principal representatives, teacher representatives, and parent representatives. The evaluation criteria must include the core as well as the self-established criteria.
- Principal evaluation process is composed of four phases: planning of evaluation, implementing and collecting data, processing date and generating results, providing feedback.
-The frequency of principal evaluation must be corresponded to the principal¡¦s term of office, which is once in four years.
-The appointment of evaluators ¡Õmust take into account three factors: profeessionality, multiplicity, and objectivity.
- The date collecting methods for principal evaluation must be diverse.
- The principal evaluation reports must consist of strengths as well as areas needing improvements. Moreover, a proper appeal procedure needed to be established for the principals to request further discussion regarding the evaluation results.
-The evaluation results are not only form a frame of reference for ¡§decision-making¡¨ but also lay the cornerstone for improved practices and principals¡¦ professional growth.
According to the results of this study, recommendations are made as follows:
1. Recommendations for Bureau of Education, Kaohsiung city
- Developing official standards for evaluating the effectiveness of elementary school principals (see Appendix 10)
-Cooperating with academic institutes to provide elementary school principals with opportunities for professional enhancement
-A ¡§gradual model¡¨ should be adopted in the principal evaluation.
2. Recommendations for the elementary school principals
-Embracing the notion of evaluation and actively engaging in planning, implementing and developing evaluation system.
-Re-adjusting their leadership behaviors, cultivate persistent willingness and abilities for self-improvement and cumulate experience in making changes.
- Emphasizing school managements and developing features unique to their schools.
- Establishing and maintaining portfolios with documents represent their professional accomplishments.
3.Recommendations for teaching staffs in the elementary schools
-Improving teaching staffs¡¦ evaluation capabilities by establishing professional dialogue mechanisms internally and externally.
-Cultivating a culture of evaluation that is beneficial to school development as a whole
4. Recommendation to further studies to be made hereafter
-Integrating evaluation criteria and paying more attention to principal¡¦s current practices, leadership behaviors and professional development.
-Further exploring the relationship between ¡§principal evaluation¡¨ and ¡§evaluations of school management¡¨ and the feasibility of conducting both at a time.
- ¡§Meta-evaluation¡¨ needs to be conducted to understand the effects of principal evaluation and advance the quality of evaluation eventually.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0820104-114352 |
| Date | 20 August 2004 |
| Creators | Ji, Tsai |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0820104-114352 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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