How Supervisors Are Faring in the Arena of Educational Reform [microform] / Christine Johnston and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5522238
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Johnston, Christine
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990
- 47 p.
- Summary:
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This report examines how the educational reform movement has affected supervisors. In fall 1989, 46 educational administration graduate students completed interviews with 92 elementary, middle, and secondary school supervisors in a seven-county area of New Jersey. Over 360 hours of taped responses to the structured interviews were transcribed, analyzed, and submitted for further review. The study summarized in this report is based on data from visits II and IV. Central to visit IV was the question, "How are you faring?" A review of the response to change literature and a preliminary reading of respondents' taped interviews led researchers to expand the original question to include a series of related questions concerning supervisors' acceptance or adjustment to mandated reforms at the district level. Participants fell into one of four quadrants. Quadrant I respondents (17 percent) stated that they were faring well and initiating collaborative efforts to meet or exceed mandated reforms. Quadrant II supervisors (35 percent) projected an accommodating attitude; they felt prepared for testing and reporting changes, but less prepared to address changes in instructional programs or teaching behaviors. Quadrant III (41 percent) were frustrated by new paperwork, were less interactive with reform issues, and felt unprepared to meet requirements. Quadrant IV participants (7 percent) were either unconcerned or unaware of the changes required by state legislation and spoke of retirement plans. The study suggests that New Jersey school supervisors are not faring as well as they could be. Four tables are appended. (16 references) (MLH)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Boston, MA, April 16-20, 1990).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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