Dissertation
Superintendent evaluation: A review of small-school models
Washington State University
Doctor of Education (EdD), Washington State University
05/2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006073
Abstract
This study examined the process of superintendent evaluation in six small public-school districts in Washington State. The researcher interviewed one superintendent and one board member in each district with regard to this process. He also reviewed the districts' current superintendent-evaluation forms as well as their job announcements and job descriptions for the position of superintendent when these documents were available. The researcher compared these documents to educational-leadership standards provided by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008a), Waters and Marzaro's (2009) work on district leadership, various state standards, and Washington State School Directors Association recommendations standards for superintendent evaluations. Interview responses and source documents indicated that four of the six school districts studied used superintendent- evaluation forms consisting of a Likert rating scale (usually from 1 to 5) and a section for comments. The fifth district in this study meet formally with the superintendent to verbally review goals and set expectations for the coming year. The sixth district used a continuous process of monitoring that culminated in an end of the year review based on the monthly monitoring reports. Interviewees using the numeric rating form as the primary evaluation tool in their district felt is was insufficiently clear, subjective, lacked clear performance goals and therefore provided superintendents with inadequate guidance. Most also thought that the evaluation process needed to include more-frequent monitoring and ongoing evaluation of the superintendent's progress with regular updates for the board and community. This study offers recommendations as to how school superintendents and board members can work together to devise a more effective and relevant evaluation processes. In particular, it suggests that school districts use research-based, national evaluation standards modified to suit their district's unique needs and goals.
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Details
- Title
- Superintendent evaluation
- Creators
- Thomas Andrew Opstad
- Contributors
- Paul Goldman (Chair)Gay V. Selby (Committee Member)June M Canty (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Department of Teaching and Learning
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- College of Education
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Education (EdD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 130
- Identifiers
- 99901055117501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation