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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: relation of participative leadership style to two measures of school effectiveness in the Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese of San Antonio
  name:
    name part: Higgins, Daniel Joseph.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hinojosa, David
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Oates, Arnold D.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Stark, Stephen L.
    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: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 160 leaves ; 28 cm
  abstract: The purpose of the study was to determine whether principals' participative leadership style in the Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese of San Antonio was related to two measures of school effectiveness: instructional leadership or home-school relations. The data were gathered through the use of survey questionnaires mailed to a sample of 120 teachers and 240 parents. Respondents totaled 215, representing a 60% response rate. In analyzing the data, results of a t-test for independent groups indicated no significant difference between the participative leadership style of the principals as perceived by the teacher and parent constituency groups. Further analysis showed that, as perceived by teachers, the principals' participative leadership style relates positively to two instructional leadership job functions: Frame the School Goals and Supervise and Evaluate Instruction. Therefore, as teachers perceived the principals as demonstrating more of a participative leadership style, they also perceived principals as being better able to frame school goals and supervise and evaluate instruction. Other results indicated that teachers and parents perceived the principals' participative leadership style as being positively related to one principle of home-school relations. Thus, as the principals were perceived as demonstrating more of a participative leadership style, they were also perceived (by teachers) as being better able to assess the parent-teacher relationship and (by parents) as being better able to promote a positive school climate. Based on the findings of the study, the Catholic Schools Office of the Archdiocese of San Antonio should implement an inservice program on leadership and leadership style-- with an emphasis on the participative style-- for high school administrators. Such a program would provide administrators with an understanding for developing a leadership style that will empower teachers, parents, and other constituency groups to be effective p…
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Educational Administration."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Catholic high schools
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
    topic: Administration
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
  subject:
    topic: High school principals
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
  subject:
    topic: Catholic high schools
    topic: Administration
  subject:
    topic: High school principals
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 950809
    record change date: 20200904152708.0
    record identifier: in00001231258
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng