The personal values of principals and the effectiveness of their schools

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1993-12

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Texas Tech University

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The purpose of this study was to determine the personal values of principals and to compare the personal values of principals of effective schools with those of principals of ineffective schools. The Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was used to determine effective schools, while Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS, 1990-91) percent of low-income data was used to control for variation in sets. The Rokeach Value Survey was used to measure the personal values of principals whose schools ranked in the top and bottom one-third of the state's TAAS scores. For each socio-economic category, the median ranking of each value on the RVS was computed for low and high TAAS schools, and these median ranks were compared between low and high TAAS schools using the Wilcoxon ranksum test. Hypotheses were developed based on Hodgkinson's value theory as it applied to the values listed in the Rokeach Value Survey.

The results indicated that personal values of principals of effective schools differ from personal values of principals of ineffective schools. For instance, principals of effective schools rank "loyal" higher than principals of ineffective schools, while principals of ineffective schools rank "intellectual" higher than their counterparts of effective schools. They further indicated that certain values emerge in the principals of effective schools.

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