TY - JOUR
T1 - Computerization of school administration
T2 - Impact on the principal's role - A case study
AU - Telem, Moshe
PY - 2001/11
Y1 - 2001/11
N2 - Changes in the principal's role, resulting from the computerization of a high-school's instruction-administration subsystem (i.e. a significant technological change), occurred in six major categories: accountability, instruction evaluation, supervision, feedback, frequency of meetings, and shared decision-making. The principal's interrelations with department heads, homeroom teachers and teachers, tightened significantly. The principal's interrelations with the school computer administrator (a new role created as a result of the introduction of a school management information system), were found to be tight and on a daily basis. The results of this research might have significant theoretical and practical implications. They should be related to SMIS impact on schooling in general and on the principal's role in particular.
AB - Changes in the principal's role, resulting from the computerization of a high-school's instruction-administration subsystem (i.e. a significant technological change), occurred in six major categories: accountability, instruction evaluation, supervision, feedback, frequency of meetings, and shared decision-making. The principal's interrelations with department heads, homeroom teachers and teachers, tightened significantly. The principal's interrelations with the school computer administrator (a new role created as a result of the introduction of a school management information system), were found to be tight and on a daily basis. The results of this research might have significant theoretical and practical implications. They should be related to SMIS impact on schooling in general and on the principal's role in particular.
KW - Decision making
KW - Information handling and flow
KW - Information systems
KW - Information technology
KW - Principal
KW - School management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035499090&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0360-1315(01)00058-6
DO - 10.1016/S0360-1315(01)00058-6
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AN - SCOPUS:0035499090
SN - 0360-1315
VL - 37
SP - 345
EP - 362
JO - Computers and Education
JF - Computers and Education
IS - 3-4
ER -
