Bureaucratic Control or Professional Autonomy?: Performance management in New Zealand schools     

Tanya Fitzgerald  Howard Youngs  Peter Grootenboer 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(1)

Since 1997 appraisal has been a mandated requirement of New Zealand schools. While the management of teacher performance is not new, schools are increasingly being faced with difficult and complex decisions regarding accountability mechanisms for teacher performance. Moreover, in a climate of school self-management the potential exists for tensions between bureaucratic systems and the professional autonomy of teachers to surface. This article reports on research conducted in 2001 that investigated teachers' perceptions of the bureaucratic and professional approaches to performance management in their schools. In a climate of increasing control of teachers' work and professional activities by the State, results from recent research indicate that school managers have adopted a professional approach to the appraisal of staff. Moreover the involvement of teachers in developing school-level appraisal systems is pinpointed as fundamental to the long-term success of appraisal in New Zealand schools.  相似文献   

Managing Perceptions through Action Research: introducing investigations and problem‐solving — a case study     

Howard Tanner 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(2):261-269

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Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning Constructs   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rayne A. Sperling  Bruce C. Howard  Richard Staley  Nelson DuBois 《Educational Research and Evaluation》2013,19(2):117-139

Demographic variables, findings from the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (Schraw & Dennison, 1994), the Learning Strategies Survey (Kardash & Amlund, 1991), and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, & McKeachie, 1991), as well as accuracy ratings of test performance, were examined in 2 studies. Findings indicated convergence of self-report measures of metacognition, significant correlations between metacognition and academic monitoring, negative correlations between self-reported metacognition and accuracy ratings, and positive correlations between metacognition and strategy use and metacognition and motivation. Limitations of the studies and implications for theory development and future research are discussed.  相似文献   

Teacher Appraisal,Professional Development and School Improvement: a case study     

David Hopkins  Julie Howard  Iain Johnston  Barbara Glover  Sue Woodburn 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(1):37-53

The paper argues that in respect of the day‐to‐day work activities required in being a headteacher, and in the work relationships involved in running schools, the occupational culture of headship has changed fundamentally. Using the accounts of 20 headteachers, interviewed in respect of their career histories in 1990 and followed up by means of a postal questionnaire in 1992, the paper illustrates the changes experienced and identified by this group of heads. It is argued that a new headteacher is required; that aspects of educational leadership have diminished dramatically in the work culture of headship.  相似文献   

Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling     

Andrea L. Howard 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(2):354-360

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Technology User Groups and Early Childhood Education: A Preliminary Study     

Howard P. Parette  Jack J. Hourcade  Craig Blum  Emily H. Watts  Julia B. Stoner  Brian W. Wojcik  Shannon B. Chrismore 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2013,41(3):171-179

This article presents a preliminary examination of the potential of Technology User Groups as a professional development venue for early childhood education professionals in developing operational and functional competence in using hardware and software components of a Technology toolkit. Technology user groups are composed of varying numbers of participants having an interest in technology, and are led by one or more skilled facilitators who meet with participants across time to help them acquire and demonstrate new technology skill sets. A series of these groups were conducted with seven early education professionals serving young preschool children who were at risk or who had disabilities. The impact of these technology user groups was examined using self-reports subsequent to individual participation. Specific data were collected regarding the types of technologies that had been used, and the types of classroom instructional products that had been created and implemented in classrooms using the technologies. A discussion of the value of technology user groups is presented.  相似文献   

Systemic Change for School Improvement     

Howard S. Adelman  Linda Taylor 《Journal of educational and psychological consultation》2013,23(1):55-77

Despite the nationwide emphasis on school improvement, the complexities of accomplishing desired systemic changes have been given short shrift in policy, research, training, and practice. This article focuses on the problem of expanding school improvement planning to better address how schools and districts intendto accomplish designated changes. Specifically, weframe and outline some basic considerations related to systemic change, and, to encourage a greater policy discussion of the complexities of implementing major school improvements on a large scale, we propose a set of policy actions.  相似文献   

A Thank You     

Howard Margolis 《Journal of educational and psychological consultation》2013,23(1):16-17

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A Cross-cultural Study of the Development of Artistic Talent,Creativity and Giftedness     

Susan M. Rostan  David Pariser  Howard E. Gruber 《High Ability Studies》2002,13(2):125-155

In this study, examining the relationships among age, culture, training in the fine arts, the technical and aesthetic properties of drawings, and realized artistic giftedness, the researchers intermixed the juvenile drawings executed by critically acclaimed artists with artworks executed by contemporary North American and Chinese North American children. When judges from the North American culture and from the Chinese North American culture, blind to this mix, assessed the drawings, assessments made by the representatives of both cultures were more alike than they were different. Only the North American judges' assessments, however, suggest that the art students' life drawings were more technically and aesthetically successful, and more creative, on the average, than the non-art students' drawings. These judges also gave the juvenilia the highest scores in technical skill and the lowest scores in creativity independent of technical skill and aesthetic success. Conclusions and implications stress the role of technical skill in the development of artistic potential.  相似文献   

Recognizing Conventionality: Reply to Shweder and Helwig et al     

Howard Gabennesch 《Child development》1990,61(6):2079-2084

Shweder and Helwig et al. attribute to my thesis a denial of objective moral law. This is a misinterpretation of the argument. On the other hand, the critics deny the implications of the social construction of reality, leading them to reject the concept of transparency. This commits them to the remarkable position that all social formations are equally transparent. Helwig et al. do not reconcile their perspective with the phenomenon of ethnocentrism. They imply that I ignore the consistent results of the majority of studies, when in fact my critique centers on the unwarranted theoretical generalizations drawn from these results. Helwig et al. also do not adequately explain the murky distinction between "marginal" and "conventional."  相似文献