Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 38 Issue 4

The influence of school architecture on academic achievement

C. Kenneth Tanner

Limited, dated information is available to school administrators concerning the influence that the built learning environment has on academic achievement. Given the population…

Appraisal – The impact of increased control on the “state of play” in New Zealand schools

Eileen Piggot‐Irvine

Increased control has been linked with increased defensiveness, decreased internal commitment, inconsistent adoption of initiatives, and mixed reception. In New Zealand we have…

Towards a model of teacher receptivity to planned system‐wide educational change in a centrally controlled system

Russell F. Waugh

Proposes a new model of teacher receptivity to system‐wide educational change, where the change is planned and implemented in a centrally controlled educational system involving…

Principals’ efficacy beliefs about teacher evaluation

Suzanne R. Painter

School principals have been criticized for their inaction in dealing with incompetent or low‐performing teachers. Bandura’s self‐efficacy theory suggests that principals’ beliefs…

Moving into the third, outer domain of teacher satisfaction

Steve Dinham, Catherine Scott

Models of teacher satisfaction post‐Herzberg have generally presented two mutually exclusive domains of teacher satisfaction/dissatisfaction. However, use of a survey with 2,000…