Assessing Educational Leaders : Evaluating Performance for Improved Individual and Organizational Results

by Reeves, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780761938002
• ISBN10: 0761938001
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-14
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This critical resource demonstrates the need for a new form of leadership evaluation for all leaders in the field of education and offers a new model of leadership evaluation.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Why Leadership Evaluation Is Broken

The Knowing-Doing Gap

Progress in Leadership Evaluation

Ambiguous Leadership Standards

Incoherent Leaderhip Evaluations

Authority-Responsibility Disequilibrium

A Better Way: Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

2. Reframing Leadership Evaluation

Patrick's Choice: The Risks and Rewards of Evaluation

A New Vision of Educational Accountability

Criteria for Multidimensional Leadership Assessment (MLA)

Implications of a New Vision for Leadership Evaluation

3. Moving Beyond One-Dimensional Leadership Evaluation

The Prevalence of One-Dimensional Evaluation

Leadership Is More Than Test Scores

Leadership Is More Than Popularity

Leadership Is More Than Obedience

4. Creating an Improved Leadership Evaluation System

Domains of Leadership Performance

Leadership Performance Standards

Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

5. Using Evaluation to Improve Performance

The Capacity-Building Continuum

The Challenge Continuum

The Coaching Continuum

The Counseling Continuum

Defining Performance: The Key to Using the Leadership Evaulation Continua

6. Developing a Multidimensional Leadership Assessment System

Leadership Domains

Leadership Performance

Leadership Assessment as a Research Goldmine

Organizational Goals, Values, and Priorities

The Performance Continuum

Qualitative Information: The Lens for Understanding Quantitative Data

Reflection and Self-Regulation

7. Building the Next Generation of Educational Leaders

The Leadership Development Imperative

Prototype for a Leadership Development System

Authentic Assessment for Future Leaders

8. Leading Leaders

The Coaching Conundrum: Results or Antecedents?

Inquiry and Hypothesis Testing

Applying MLA Throughout the Organization

9. Improving Leadership Evaluation With Multidimensional Leadership Assessment

Analyze the Present Evaluation System

Create Dimensions of Leadership

Specify Performance Levels

Field Test the Instrument at Multiple Levels

Implement Throughout the Organization

Share Results With Universities and Research Institutions

Use MLA for Training, Recruiting, and Developing Leaders

Conclusion: Finding Answers Inside

Resource A: The Leadership Performance Matrix

Resource B: National Leadership Survey Results

Resource C: Leadership Evaluation Survey

Resource D: The Gap Between What Leaders Know and What They Do

References

Index