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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: relationship of secondary school principal's locus of control, tenure in office, and critical thinking to organizational ability
  name:
    name part: Bishop, David Alan
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Albanese, Robert
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Campbell, Jack K.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Erlandson, David A.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Hinojosa, David
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1985
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 142 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: The major purpose of this inquiry was to investigate and analyze the relationships of secondary school principals' locus of control, tenure in office, and critical thinking ability to their organizational ability. Thirty subjects were randomly selected from a population of 120 suburban secondary principals in Harris County, Texas. The subjects were each administered the Rotter I-E Scale, tenure in office questionnaire, Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, and an organizational ability in-basket. The in-basket assessed the principals' capacity to plan, schedule, and control the work of others; skill in using resources in an optimal fashion; ability to deal with a volume of paperwork and heavy demands on time. Data were analyzed using the computer package Analysis of Behavioral Science Data (AOBSD). Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the relationships. The routine utilized to provide the correlation coefficients and regression models was program REGRAN from the AOBSD package. The findings revealed that the relationship between principals' locus of control and organizational ability was not significant when tested at the .05 level. The Rotter I-E Scale scores accounted for 3% of the variance in the in-basket scores. Similar results were discovered when principals' Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal scores were correlated with their scores on the organizational ability in-basket. This analysis showed that critical thinking ability accounted for 3% of the variance in organizational ability. A significant relationship was discovered, however, between principals' tenure in office and their scores on the in-basket. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient of r = 0.5428 was determined to be statistically significant when tested at the .01 level with 28 degrees of freedom. Tenure in office accounted for 29% of the variance in organizational ability. Multiple regression analysis disclosed that when a combination of all thre…
  note: "Major subject: Educational Administration."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1985
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-112).
  subject:
    topic: High school principals
  subject:
    topic: Junior high school principals
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-417617
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 860630
    record change date: 20220104090329.0
    record identifier: in00000412348
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng