Job transitions from teaching to administration in secondary schools: an investigation of role assumption
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explored the descriptions offered by five Ontario educators of their experiences while assuming the role of secondary school vice-principal within the same school district, focusing specifically on the nature of the transition in job role within schools. A review of the literature was used to formulate a three-phase socio-dramatic framework for analysis of role transition processes. These phases, preparation, assumption and reflection encompassed a number of role transition processes. These processes were found to involve a perception of role and its context, the negotiation of a role, and an evaluation of role. Philosophically, this framework places the individual at the centre of role process as this research was undertaken to investigate the interaction between an individual and their assumed job. While most participants had completed identical technical and organizational training, the experience of assuming the vice-principal role presented disparate realities between their imagined and actual vice-principal role. Findings suggest that assuming a new organizational role is a dynamic learning experience which contained common influences within the social setting of secondary schools. In this study, the personal change and turmoil of assuming the vice-principalship seems to be a result of a dissonance between an individual's image of the role and their professional agency within an organization to enact that role. The agency of new vice-principals was strongly influenced by each school's principal, staff, and community. Participants demonstrated an entry into the ranks of educational administration that was stressful, emotionally charged and subject to many influences of a sociological, an organizational and a contextual nature. The vice-principal role was found to be one in which the individual and their school community negotiate a contextually tailored administrative job role.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.027 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".