Principals' Perceptions and Self-efficacy in Relation to School Security

Principals in the nation's schools have been tasked with managing crisis incidents that may occur with students and others on their campuses on a daily basis. The purposes of this study were to determine the differences, if any, that existed in Central Florida public school principals' perceptions regarding school security, their perceived confidence to address critical crisis incidents on their campuses, their perceptions of the likelihood critical incidents would occur, their perceptions of interaction with law enforcement, the critical incidents they fear the most, and their perceptions of factors impacting the incidents they fear the most. Principal subgroup mean responses to the Principal Safety and Security Perceptions Survey in the three areas of Bandura's (1997) triadic reciprocal causation were examined in the context of principals' gender, longevity, student enrollment, grade configuration, free and reduced lunch rate, presence of a law enforcement officer, and presence of a security plan. Findings revealed significant differences between categorical groups of principals in multiple areas. It was determined that significant differences in principals' perceptions warrant further study. Recommendations for practice include security policy development and practical application of noted trends.

Author dc:creator

• Jones, Julian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Taylor, Rosemarye

• Natural energy
• markov decision process
• mdp
• load shedding
• energy storage
• intermittency
• expected cost
• Education
• Educational Leadership

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

CFE0005636

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:etd-2268