Download or read book Minnesota Public School Superintendents' Perceptions of the Administrative Licensure Competence-based Preparation Program for Principals in the State of Minnesota written by Bonnie Anne Thoms and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this study was to examine Minnesota school superintendents' perceptions of the administrative licensure program in the state of Minnesota as one measure of whether the Minnesota Administrative Competence-Based Preparation Program is adequately preparing newly licensed administrative candidates for effective school leadership. The population for this study was narrowed to 114 superintendents supervising non-tenured, newly licensed principals who received their Minnesota administrative licensure between 2002 and 2005. A web-based survey designed around 21 competencies required by Minnesota state law collected frequency data in ordinal and nominal scales. The ordinal scale consisted of a Likert-scale survey ranging from (1) strongly disagrees to (5) strong agree. The nominal scale disaggregated and analyzed the data by two demographic locations, rural vs. suburban/urban. The data led to three main findings. First, on average, a third of the superintendents answered that they were unsure whether their new principals demonstrated the stated competencies. Second, on average, a higher percentage agreed than disagreed that the principals demonstrated the competencies. Third, although there were often differences in the responses of rural and suburban/urban superintendents, those differences were not significant for 40 of the 42 questions. The study ends with an analysis of these findings and suggestions for future research"--Abstract, p. i.