EVALUATING THE PRINCIPAL'S PERFORMANCE: AN ESSENTIAL STEP IN PROMOTING SCHOOL EXCELLENCE.

SCHOOL principals -- Rating of; SCHOOL administrators; SCHOOL districts

This article discusses some of the basic principles of performance evaluation, concentrating specifically on their application in the evaluation of school principals. It is based on the efforts of a large urban school district to develop an evaluation system for principals which would serve both formative and summative evaluation purposes. It presents both a substantial review of the professional literature and practical considerations for the implementation of the following basic principles of administrative evaluation in schools: self-evaluation plus evaluation by outsiders; consideration of process and products of several people; examination of input, process, and output; assessment of common objectives and unique objectives; a continuous and cyclical process; monitoring of the evaluation system to determine its effectiveness; and providing for the subsystem to be interrelated with other subsystems in the school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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