An Examination of the Perceived Need and Recommended Competencies for a Secondary School Principal Internship Program in the Seventh-day Adventist Educational System

<p>Purpose. The of this study was to examine the perceived need for, the recommended competencies of, and the delivery systems suggested, for a secondary school principal internship program in the Seventh-day Adventist educational system.</p> <p>This study evolved from the belief that the significant turnover of principals represents a challenge for Adventist education. Because of this, the supply of qualified and experienced candidates is not available in sufficient numbers to meet the current personnel needs for secondary school administrators.</p> <p>The review of related literature traced the history of principal internship training in the public school system from the early 1800s to the present. A brief report of Adventist internship information was included.</p> <p>Method. An author generated survey was sent to four major stakeholders in the field of Adventist education: Secondary school board chairs, secondary academy principals, conference and union superintendents, and college and university professors of education in Seventh-day Adventist institutions of higher learning. The groups surveyed included the entire population of these educational leaders in the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventist education ( <em>n</em> = 297).</p> <p>The research for this study was divided into three parts: (1) The perceived need for a principal internship program; (2) the curricular components and places where they are best learned; and (3) the delivery systems recommended to make this internship available. ANOVA, Chi-square, and post hoc Student-Newman-Keuls tests were used for data analysis.</p> <p>Findings. Findings indicated that all four groups perceived the inclusion of a principal internship program as very important in the training of new principals. They affirmed the importance of all twenty-two competencies surveyed with the best places for learning most of these competencies to be during an internship or through job experience.</p> <p>They further recommended that the North American Division Office of Education in the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists assume a leading role in the establishment of principal internship programs in cooperation with union and local conferences and Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Higher Education Administration EdD

Year

2002

Author dc:creator

• Caskey, Robert L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• James R. Jeffery
• Hinsdale Bernard
• Jerome Thayer

• Education
• Educational Administration and Supervision
• Secondary Education and Teaching

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dissertations/266

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.andrews.edu:dissertations-1265