Selecting and Developing Educational Leaders: A Search for Excellence

PAUL W. HERSEY is director of NASSP’s National Assessment Center Project. ASSP, in 1975 with technical assistance from a special committee of industrial psychologists and the American Psychological Association, formulated a plan to assist school districts in identifying and developing highly skilled school leaders. Thus started the Association’s Assessment Center Project. After four years of research and development related to this psychometric process,