Superintendent Performance Evaluation: Current Practice and Directions for Improvement

✍ Scribed by I. Carl Candoli, Karen Cullen (auth.), I. Carl Candoli, Karen Cullen, Daniel L. Stufflebeam (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 45
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Every school district needs a system of sound superintendent performance evaluation. School district superintendents are and must be accountable to their school boards, communities, faculties, and students for delivering effective educational leadership. To assure that they are evaluated fairly, competently, and functionally, superintendents need to help their school boards plan and implement evaluation systems that adhere to the evaluation standards.
Superintendent Performance Evaluation outlines some of the problems and deficiencies in current evaluation practice and offers professionally-based leads for strengthening or replacing superintendent performance evaluation systems. This book focuses on the on-the-job performance of school district superintendents as they implement school board policy. The decision to focus on performance evaluation reflects the importance of this kind of evaluation in the move to raise educational standards and improve educational accountability. Boards and superintendents are advised to make superintendent performance evaluation an integral part of the district's larger system for evaluating district needs, plans, processes, and accomplishments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Methodology....Pages 7-9
Conceptual Framework....Pages 11-28
The Superintendency....Pages 29-44
Literature Review Findings....Pages 45-68
Description and Assessment of Superintendent Evaluation Models....Pages 69-118
An Emerging Model for Superintendent Evaluation....Pages 119-149
Back Matter....Pages 151-289

✦ Subjects

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Education (general)