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  title info:
    title: Effective superintendent leadership strategies and management techniques for improving student performance as perceived by superintendents in selected school districts in Texas
  name:
    name part: Byrd, Jimmy Kent.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 166 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: There have been several studies examining the role of the principal and the various strategies that enhance student success, but the literature remains limited regarding how the daily activities practiced by the district superintendent contribute to student academic achievement. The purposes of the study were to 1) determine if leadership strategies practiced by the district superintendent affect student academic achievement; 2) determine if management techniques practiced by the district superintendent affects student academic achievement; and 3) examine demographic data from selected public school districts to determine the impact on student academic achievement during the timeframe of the current study. Results from the multiple regression analysis indicate that the leadership strategies investigated in the present study, which included the use of the Site-Based Decision-Making Committee, communicating expectations, establishing non-negotiable goals, and practicing a professional style of leadership, have no significant impact on student achievement. Student achievement in the present study is measured by the standardized mean difference among all students passing all Texas Assessment of Academic Skills exams (reading, mathematics, and writing) at the district level, from 1996-97 to 1998-99. In contrast, the analysis of the management techniques examined, which include how the superintendent spends time on the job, monitors the environment, establishes open communication, and allows campuses autonomy, reveals that allowing campuses autonomy and establishing open communication accounts for eight of the variance in the dependent variable, TAAS growth. The results from the full model consisting of the leadership strategies and management techniques, derived from principal component analysis, indicate that the superintendent's influence on student achievement is, in fact, one-dimensional. The managerial aspect was determined to significantly affect student achievemen…
  note: by Jimmy Kent Byrd.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Administration".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-151).
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
  identifier: 30-20012 UMI
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020430
    record change date: 20190325103110.0
    record identifier: in00001675577