Chapter 1 Leadership Preparation Program Evaluation: Experiences and Insights

Author(s):  
Ann O’Doherty ◽  
Margaret Terry Orr
Author(s):  
Karen Sanzo

This article presents a content analysis of the 2013 School Leadership Program (SLP) grants. SLP projects provide a unique opportunity for participants in the field to explore innovative leadership preparation and development and their impact on program participants, schools, school districts, and students. The article begins with an overview of the SLP, the changing field of leadership preparation, and current research in the field. Findings then reveal a range of evaluation tools, methods, and data, the presence of myriad evaluators participating in the projects, and little focus on external dissemination of program evaluation methods beyond the scope of the projects. Suggestions for research to extend the field are provided.


1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Daresh

In this article, a description is presented of the strategy and steps that were followed at the University of Northern Colorado in restructuring its educational leadership preparation program. Details are provided concerning the ways in which changes were made, and how these changes were supported through attention to personnel issues, linkage relationships within the university, and linkages outside the university.


Author(s):  
Shelby Cosner ◽  
Steve Tozer ◽  
Paul Zavitkovsky

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Jacobson ◽  
Martha McCarthy ◽  
Diana Pounder

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