Competency Assessment and Career/Leadership Goals

In order to properly analyze my pre and post self assessments for the 10 Superintendent Competencies, I decided to use a scoring system based on a 4.0 scale.  I gave myself 4 points for each answer I gave as a  "Strength"; 2 points for each "Competent"; and 0 points for each area I needed "Improvement" on.  After adding the total number of points within each competency, I then divided the number of total points by the number of questions within that same competency in order to obtain my score.  In order to see a true numeric number as opposed to a scale average, I placed the number of total points received in parenthesis.

	Competency	Pre-Assessment	Post-Assessment
Domain 1	1	2.7 (16)	4.0 (24)
	2	1.8 (20)	3.1 (34)
	3	2.1 (22)	3.1 (34)
	4	.86 (6)	2.0 (14)
Domain 2	5	1.4 (14)	2.2 (22)
	6	1.3 (14)	2.7 (30)
	7	2.4 (22)	3.1 (28)
Domain 3	8	.36 (4)	2.0 (22)
	9	.57 (4)	2.6 (18)
	10	1.0 (6)	2.3 (14)

My next step was to analyze the data.  Using the 4.0 scale I created, I was able to see the variance between each pre and post competency self-assessment.  I noted the three competencies I improved on the most which were Competency #9 (Principles of management to physical plant/support systems), Competency #8 (Budgeting/Finance/Technology Application), and Competency #6 (Sustain an instructional program and district culture). Two of the these three competencies fell under Domain 3 (Administrative Leadership).  The third competency listed within Domain 3 was tied for 4th for the most improved.  This information was valuable to me because the three competencies within Domain 3 were I needed to improve on the most according to my pre-assessment.

According to my post-assessment, the three competencies I scored the best on which reflected my strengths were Competency #1 (Acting with integrity, fairness, and ethical manner), Competency #2 (Shaping district culture), Competency #3 (Communicate/collaborate with families and community), and Competency #7 (Implement staff evaluation and development system).  Three of these four competencies were in Domain 1 (Leadership of the Educational Community).  Therefore, according to my analysis, this Domain was were my confidence was strongest.

Lastly, it was time to see what areas I still needed to improve on as I create the foundation and my philosophy in becoming a superintendent.  Competency #4 (Influencing political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context including working with the school board to achieve educational vision), Competency #8 (Budgeting/Finance/Technology Application), and Competency # 5 (facilitate and implement strategic plans).  Although I did grow in each of these areas, I feel that hands-on experience will provide me with more knowledge.  On a positive note, each one of these three areas that I need to improve on were located within 3 different Domains where I also had many strengths.