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Evaluation is an administrative function in education (Glasman, 1979; Razik & Swanson, 1995; Stufflebeam & Webster, 1988). It is one of several that include decision making, problem solving, and instructional supervision. The evaluation of school principals is a personnel administrative function (Seyfarth, 1991). It is also one of several others such as the selection and induction of school principals and other personnel, compensation, staff development, and reassignment (Van Zwoll, 1964). Personnel administration as a whole figures prominently in education because education is a labor-intensive industry (Webb, Greer, Montello, & Norton, 1987). While the institutional nature of schools has often resisted change (Tyack & Cuban, 1995), over the past several decades, the role of personnel evaluation has become central to policymakers’ efforts aimed at promoting academic improvement and long-term school effectiveness. Consequently, the evaluation of school principals has become increasingly prominent in personnel administration because principals are pivotal in schools and because the evaluation of principals reveals where schools are and where they are going (Glasman & Nevo, 1988).
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Glasman, N.S., Heck, R.H. (2003). Principal Evaluation in the United States. In: Kellaghan, T., Stufflebeam, D.L. (eds) International Handbook of Educational Evaluation. Kluwer International Handbooks of Education, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0309-4_37
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