The relationship between principal perceived success in the implementation of shared decision-making programs and personality type for elementary school principals from a rural northern California county

The purpose of this study was to determine what relationship exists between the personality types of elementary school principals from a particular county in northern California and their perceived quality of shared decision-making programs in their schools. A relationship of certain types to greater success of programs could be a factor in determining fitness for promotion or placement to the position of elementary school principal. Twenty elementary school principals from this particular county were administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. A structured interview with each principal was also conducted to determine their perceptions of existing shared decision-making programs in their schools. Three research questions were considered concerning personality type and temperaments of the principals in three categories: those who perceived themselves as possessing a true shared decision-making model in their schools; those who perceived themselves as possessing some characteristics of shared decision-making in their schools; and those who perceived themselves as possessing no shared decision-making in their schools. Percentages of types were drawn and compared to percentages taken from a national data bank of elementary school principals personality types. Personality types and temperaments of the 20 principals differed considerably between the three different categories of shared decision-making status. Principals from the no shared decision-making group were found to be comprised of higher percentages of ESTJ types and SJ temperaments. Principals from the true shared decision-making group were found to be comprised of higher percentages of ENFJ types and NF temperaments. Principals from the some shared decision-making group were found to be comprised of a split between the ESFJ and ENFJ types. The NF temperament dominated the SJ temperament in this group. The elementary school principals under study compared similarly to the national samples of elementary school principals but were higher in the traits of Extroversion and Judging. Based on the findings of this study a number of recommendations were made for future studies and professional development

The relationship between principal perceived success in the implementation of shared decision-making programs and personality type for elementary school principals from a rural northern California county

The purpose of this study was to determine what relationship exists between the personality types of elementary school principals from a particular county in northern California and their perceived quality of shared decision-making programs in their schools. A relationship of certain types to greater success of programs could be a factor in determining fitness for promotion or placement to the position of elementary school principal. Twenty elementary school principals from this particular county were administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. A structured interview with each principal was also conducted to determine their perceptions of existing shared decision-making programs in their schools. Three research questions were considered concerning personality type and temperaments of the principals in three categories: those who perceived themselves as possessing a true shared decision-making model in their schools; those who perceived themselves as possessing some characteristics of shared decision-making in their schools; and those who perceived themselves as possessing no shared decision-making in their schools. Percentages of types were drawn and compared to percentages taken from a national data bank of elementary school principals personality types. Personality types and temperaments of the 20 principals differed considerably between the three different categories of shared decision-making status. Principals from the no shared decision-making group were found to be comprised of higher percentages of ESTJ types and SJ temperaments. Principals from the true shared decision-making group were found to be comprised of higher percentages of ENFJ types and NF temperaments. Principals from the some shared decision-making group were found to be comprised of a split between the ESFJ and ENFJ types. The NF temperament dominated the SJ temperament in this group. The elementary school principals under study compared similarly to the national samples of elementary school principals but were higher in the traits of Extroversion and Judging. Based on the findings of this study a number of recommendations were made for future studies and professional development

Fiber Computing

Fibers are materials that have a very long length compared to their cross sectional dimensions, i.e. a very high aspect ratio. A wide variety of everyday objects are either made out of or consist of textile fibers (clothes, wall paper, chairs). In this work, we describe a potential physical layer for wearable computing by using fibers. The layer is defined by the fabrication of transistors onto fibers, packaging and integrating these packaged fibers into textiles. These fibers need be made out of suitable semiconductor materials to host transistors. A piece of polysilicon produced into a very small cross section compared to its length is demonstrated. Due to space constraints on a single fiber, research into novel architectures is done to create parallel, distributed, fault-tolerant and configurable devices. Configurable fibers can be interwoven into clothes or everyday objects to create artifacts, which can be interconnected with each other