DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE EVALUATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA.

摘要

This study develops an instrument for evaluating the effectiveness of educational administrative performance in Korea. The purposes of this study are to determine the attitudes of 272 respondent Korean school administrators (elementary, middle, and high school principals and vice principals) toward the purposes of administrative evaluation, the elements of an administrative evaluation system, and the competencies that are needed for successful administrative performance.;Statistical tests reveal that there are significant differences between position groups on four of the seventy-two competencies. School groups differ significantly for seven competencies.;The most important conclusions of this study include the following. (1) The administrators seem to desire major changes in evaluation that will place more emphasis on the improvement of individual performance. (2) The administrators show only a limited interest in the use of evaluation results as a means for making administrative decisions on promotion and transfer. (3) The administrators consider it important to extend evaluation practices to all administrative and supervisory personnel because of their influential roles. (4) The administrators seem to consider the competencies included in this study as basic competencies that are applicable to all levels of Korean principal and vice principal positions. (5) The administrators seem to consider it appropriate to use the competencies in this study as useful criterion items for evaluating administrator performance. Based on the results of this study an instrument for the evaluation of Korean school administrative personnel was developed with guidelines for implementation and directions for its use and interpretation.;The survey instrument used is a two-part questionnaire that addresses the purposes and elements of administrative evaluation and administrative competencies. Four research questions are answered both by comparing the responses of position and school groups (utilizing a two-way analysis of variance) and rank ordering each item within each category by position and school groups.