In this article, the authors explore common and emerging conceptions of what constitutes knowledge in educational administration, how knowledge relates to practive, and how individuals in universities and schools can engage in a particular kind of knowledge work-research. The authors suggest that a fully articulated perspective on research in educational administration might characterize resear…
This article is part of an American educational resource association division a task force focus on how to improve the research base and knowledge production in educational administration. It represents an exploratory study of the potential for educational administratirs to generate knowledge out of their own practice settings. The database consists of published articles, dissertation abstracts…
Student learning is a pervading concern for national governments, states, and local school boords. One administrative premise equates allocated time with productive time, assuming that students take advantage of the time resources available to them. This study uses an innovative measurement strategy to show that students are disengaged a large portion of the time in academic classes, and that t…
There has been a recent state-level emphasis on monitoring student outcomes to develop comprehensive school accountability. Such monitoring systems can include content standards and benchmarks to measure progress, statewide assessment instruments, and school report card data that policy makers, school personel, and parents can also use to compare schools. syur.
Standards-based instructional reform has been accurring in all mayor school subjects. However, administrators, supervisory practices have generally not taken account of subject-matter content but have focused primarily on pedagogical procees. This article addresses how administrators can better support standards-based intruction by shifting their approaches to supervision to attend to the inter…
This article reports on an exploratory study that inquired about the teaching and learning of administrative problem-framing skills in a problem-based learning administrator preparation program. A literature-based definition of problem-framing ability is developed, and a conceptual framework for the study, rooted in theories of cognition and social psychology, is introduced. syur.
The argument is developed that combining cultural and political perspectives has great potential for deepening understanding of interaction in educational administration. Application of the integrated cultural and political perspective is demostrated through a case study of districtwide restructuring of schools in England to adjust to the declining numbers of students attending local schools. s…
This article shares a series of instructional time analyses to illustrate how school management, social and cultural welfare programs, high-stakes testing. System politicies, and a flawed notion organizational efficiency combine to cripple enormous blocks of annual intructional time in a large urban district. Data analyzed were classroom observation records, field notes, teacher interviews, sch…
This research examines the importance of a scools climate characterized by high levels of academic emphasis. Effective schools research is reviewed to develop a conceptual model undergirding the measurement of academic emphasis. In addition, social cognitive theory is employed as a theoretical framework explaining the development and effect of academic emphasis on student achievement. With the …
Empowerment is defined and measured in terms of teacher's power to control critical decisions about teaching and learning conditions. This research first considers the relationship between school climate and teacher empowermwnt wnd the relationship between teacher empowerment and school effectiveness, which inchludes measures of mathematics and reading achievement in 86 middle schools. The resu…