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UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS OF EFFECTIVE
URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AMONG
VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS
by
Jesse Jeremy Payne
_________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Jesse Jeremy Payne
Object Description
| Title | Understanding differences in perceptions of effective urban elementary school principals among various educational stakeholders |
| Author | Payne, Jesse Jeremy |
| Author email | jessepayne@me.com;jessepayne@me.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-02-27 |
| Date submitted | 2012-03-20 |
| Date approved | 2012-03-20 |
| Restricted until | 2012-03-20 |
| Date published | 2012-03-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Garcia, Pedro |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Castruita, Rudy Grove, Doug |
| Abstract | Principals are being asked to lead students to unprecedented levels of academic success, but with increasingly less power or resources to their avail. Moreover, principals must interact with countless stakeholders in education. While much research has studied the general characteristics of what many believe constitute an effective principal, little has been done to research job-specific characteristics, or the similarities and differences that might exist in the perceptions of these characteristics between the various educational stakeholders who principals interact with. ❧ This study consisted of three research questions looking to study the similarities and differences in the perceptions of job-specific skills related to being an effective elementary school principal in an urban setting. This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to research, with four instruments used to collect data from 51 superintendents, 114 principals, and 101 teachers. ❧ This study resulted in numerous key findings. While similarities were discovered in a few of the 10 domains of job-specific characteristics, there were far more differences. Many of these differences occurred between stakeholder groups. More importantly, however, several key differences were found within the same stakeholder groups, and within the same characteristic domains. This suggests that educators were not able to keep a consistent opinion towards the same characteristic across multiple instruments. |
| Keyword | perceptions; differences; elementary principals; educational stakeholders |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Payne, Jesse Jeremy |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-PayneJesse-530.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS OF EFFECTIVE URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AMONG VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS by Jesse Jeremy Payne _________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2012 Copyright 2012 Jesse Jeremy Payne |
