The changing leadership role of the principal: Implications for principal assessment

The systematic study of principal assessment has been slow to develop. For a long time, the practice of principal assessment had not required a high degree of systematization, and the study of this practice had not been guided by firmly established theoretical considerations. In chapters on personnel evaluation which appear in books on personnel administration (e.g., Castetter, 1976; Fawcett, 1979; Seyfarth, 1991; Webb, Greer, Montello, & Norton, 1987), the mention of principal assessment is minimal.