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A study of the relationships of achievement tendency of secondary school principals and teachers with the principals' leadership behavior as rated by their superiors and subordinates

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    • Contributors:
      North, Stewart D.; Sanders, Stanley G.; Say, Michael; Verner, Zenobia B.; Sterrett, Marvin D.
    • Publication Date:
      1976
    • Collection:
      University of Houston Institutional Repository (UHIR)
    • Abstract:
      Purpose. This investigation was concerned with studying the leadership behavior and achievement tendency in Harris County, Texas, suburban secondary schools. The purpose of the study was twofold: first, to investigate the relationship between principals' leadership behavior and their achievement tendency, and second, to investigate the relationship between principals' leadership behavior and teachers' achievement tendency. The principals' leadership behavior was determined by the perceptions of teachers and superiors of principals. Procedure. The population selected for the study consisted of all secondary schools of Harris County suburban school districts which had more than two but less than twenty secondary schools. One school from each district was randomly selected. The principals of the ten selected secondary schools, the superiors of the ten principals, and one hundred full-time teachers, ten randomly selected from each school, participated in the study. Data were collected through the medium of two instruments. Mehrabian Achieving Tendency Scales, developed by Albert Mehrabian (1968) were administered to teachers and principals to obtain their level of achievement tendency. Profile of Organizational Characteristics, developed by Rensis Likert (1967), was administered to teachers and superiors of principals to determine their perceptions of principals' leadership behavior. Both instruments were administered to the participants by the researcher in a pre-arranged on-site testing session. Statistical Analysis. Collected instruments were scored manually, tabulated and described. Three hypotheses of the study were tested using Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient and Kendall's associated r to z transformation for testing the level of significance. The fourth hypothesis was tested using a One-Way Analysis of Variance and an associated F-test. All four hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance. Findings. It was found that the principals' management systems were evaluated more frequently by ...
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      application/pdf; reformatted digital
    • Relation:
      3011274; https://hdl.handle.net/10657/10920
    • Online Access:
      https://hdl.handle.net/10657/10920
    • Rights:
      This item is protected by copyright but is made available here under a claim of fair use (17 U.S.C. Section 107) for non-profit research and educational purposes. Users of this work assume the responsibility for determining copyright status prior to reusing, publishing, or reproducing this item for purposes other than what is allowed by fair use or other copyright exemptions. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires express permission of the copyright holder.
    • Accession Number:
      edsbas.13B15CDD