Research on Performance-Based Preparation and

*Texas This monograph summarizes three research projects on competency-based administrator preparation that were undertaken by the National Association of Secondary School Principals ' University Consortium. An extensive Texas study surveyed principals ' attitudes toward preparation programs, and two replication studies were conducted in Michigan and New York. Chapter 1 provides background intonation for the studies. Chapters 2 and 3 examine how practicing principals from three states see their preparation programs. The next two chapters examine several univarsity programs in relation to the consortium's performance-based recommendations. The sixth anM seventh chapters report on current procedures used ir principals ' assessment and professional development, reflecting some of the initial work supported bv the Texas A & M University Principals ' Center. Chapter 6 concentrates on principal evaluation, and chapter 7 reviews researc