ADMin-SD: Results Point Toward Need for Training

• In Event: Leadership and Learning for School Improvement

Abstract

This paper introduces a quantitative measure of administrator decision-making and focuses on how the measure can help school leaders improve schools.The purpose of this paper is threefold: a) introduce ADMin-SD’s effectiveness in providing quantitative data on aspiring and continuing administrator’s decision-making skills related to student discipline problems, b) discuss various uses for the data generated by ADMin-SD, and c) point to specific implications related to training and evaluating aspiring and continuing administrators’ decision-making performance that were generated during ADMin-SD’s Field Test. With a quantitative measure of administrator decision-making for student discipline situations, school and district leaders will be able to identify who are strong decision-makers, who needs training to improve, and whether or not the training provided was effective.

Author

• Joshua D Kahn, University of Oregon