A descriptive study of the evaluation of public school superintendents in the Commonwealth of Virginia: the school board chairperson's perspective

Statement of Problem: This research project was designed to study the policies and procedures used in the Commonwealth of Virginia to evaluate the public school superintendents from the perspective of the School Board chairperson. Specifically, the purposes of the study were: (1) to collect and summarize information describing the superintendent's evaluation policies, procedures and instruments utilized in Virginia Public Schools; (2) to compare existing policies and procedures in Virginia public schools for evaluating the superintendent of schools with those in the literature considered "best practice," (3) to determine if Virginia School Superintendent evaluation policies and procedures vary based on selected variables such as: size of school district, wealth of school district, and the gender of the school board's chairperson.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Administration

Department dc:contributor.department

Educational Administration

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1991

Author dc:creator

• Bartlett, Herman G.

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• Worner, Wayne M.
• Underwood, Kenneth E.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Richards, Robert R.
• Fortune, Jimmie C.
• Barham, Frank E.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-07282008-135951

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/38997