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Leading Professional Development: Perceptions of Ohio Principals

Wise, Jeffrey T.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490729354601496

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2017, Doctor of Education (EdD), Ohio University, Educational Administration (Education).
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of Ohio public high school principals regarding their roles as leaders of professional development and to identify the strategies they have undertaken to lead professional growth among their teachers. This study provides insights regarding the manner that principals perceive professional development in terms of the ways that they prioritize and execute these roles. Seven research objectives drove this study. The focus of these research objectives was to describe Ohio public school principals based upon their demographic characteristics, to identify the manner in which the decision-making of the principals regarding professional development was influenced, to determine the types and levels of influence on the implementation of professional development that was experienced by the participating principals, to ascertain the frequency with which the characteristics of professional development have occurred at the schools of the principals, to determine the perceptions of the principals regarding the efficacy of the professional development activities at their schools, to identify the leadership strategies that the principals used to foster professional development, and to identify the existence of statistically significant differences among the selected demographics emerging from this study. The study informs current practitioners about effective strategies for leading professional development and offers recommendations for policy makers. In regards to future research, the researcher offers recommendations for studies that would contribute to the relatively small existing body of research results regarding principals’ perceptions of their role as leaders of professional development.
William Larson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Charles Lowery, Ed.D. (Committee Member)
Marsha Lewis, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Leonard Allen, Ed.D. (Committee Member)
228 p.
Education; Educational Evaluation; Educational Leadership; Educational Theory
professional development; principal leadership; principal perceptions; professional development leadership; professional development evaluation; principal roles; leadership strategies; high school; principal; administrator

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  • Wise, J. T. (2017). Leading Professional Development: Perceptions of Ohio Principals [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490729354601496

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wise, Jeffrey. Leading Professional Development: Perceptions of Ohio Principals. 2017. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490729354601496.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wise, Jeffrey. "Leading Professional Development: Perceptions of Ohio Principals." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490729354601496

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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