Leadership and Learning [microform] : The College President as Intuitive Scientist. Presidential Address: ASHE 1986 Annual Meeting Paper / Robert Birnbaum
- Bib ID:
- 5466285
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Birnbaum, Robert
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED268890
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 32 p.
- Summary:
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Cognitive biases that may affect learning by college presidents and the effects of these biases on the presidency and higher education were studied. Based on a recent study of presidential judgment under uncertainty, data were obtained on the perceptions of 252 campus chief executive officers concerning institutional leadership and quality, and the sources of institutional improvement and change. Presidents indicated on a 100-point scale how effective they thought the average college president was as an institutional leader. They also rated themselves and their predecessors. Presidents assessed seven aspects of their campuses at the time they took office, estimated changes in them to date, and predicted their state at the time they will leave office. Finally, presidents identified the most important incident or change at their campus during the past year or so. It was found that presidents build schemas of effectiveness that are based on previous success in their careers and on the normative expectation that presidents have critical effects on institutional life. When they encounter new and ambiguous situations they are likely to anticipate, and therefore to observe, successful outcomes, and to attribute these to their own efforts. Presidents are also subject to errors induced by cognitive distortion. (SW)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Teachers College.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (San Antonio, TX, February 20-23, 1986).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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