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- Title
ACTUAL AND IDEAL PRINCIPAL INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOUR.
- Authors
Fisher, Darrell; Cresswell, John
- Abstract
Much research on perceptions of school environments in recent decades reveals that the principal's effect on the school environment is significant. This study of school environment compared teachers' actual and ideal perceptions of principals' interpersonal behaviour. The article first describes the development and validation of an instrument to measure principals' interpersonal behaviour with their teaching staff. The Principal Interaction Questionnaire (PIQ) was developed based on the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI), which was first devised in The Netherlands to assess eight facets of interpersonal behaviour, such as Leadership and Understanding. Secondly, the article reports profiles of mean scores obtained for teachers' perceptions of actual and ideal principals' interpersonal behaviour. The questionnaire was sent to 56 schools throughout Australia where it was completed by the principal and a random sample of 20 teachers in each school. The study showed that there was a number of significant differences between perceptions of actual and ideal interpersonal behaviour of principals. For example, although teachers perceived their principals as exhibiting a relatively high degree of cooperative behaviour, they would have preferred the principals to be even more cooperative.
- Subjects
SCHOOL principals; INTERPERSONAL relations; SCHOOL environment; TEACHERS; SENSORY perception; EDUCATION research
- Publication
Learning Environments Research, 1998, Vol 1, Issue 2, p231
- ISSN
1387-1579
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1009914102379