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Three research questions were asked: What is the attainment of knowledge and skills and how does mentor support function for prospective and beginning special education administrators as a result of engagement in a mentoring relationship? Do mentors and protégés agree on the protégé’s attainment of knowledge and skills and the level of the mentors’support? Do the attainment of knowledge and skills and the level of mentor support for protégés depend on whether the mentoring relationship is formal or informal? Study findings support mentoring as a critical component in the preparation of administrators in special education.  \nA Critical Need  \nThe supply of educational leaders prepared to administer special education programs in the United States is inadequate to meet the demand (American Association for Employment in Education, 2008) . This shortage may, in part, be related to a lack of documented research studies in the effective leadership practices of special education administrators and how special education administrators are prepared for leadership.  \nFor example, Crockett, Becker, and Quinn (2009) conducted a search of abstracts about special education topics to identify those that would be of interest to administrators. The 474 abstracts found were dated from 1970 through the first quarter of 2009, were organized according to eight themes. One of the eight themes, “leadership preparation and development,” yielded only 48 abstracts over the 38-year period ; approximately half of those abstracts were classified as commentaries rather than research studies. In a 1981 literature review relating to the role and function of administrators and supervisors in special education, Finkenbinder (1981) pointed out the lack of literature related to the administration of special education programs and indicated the vital need for action research to aid in the “upgrading of the administrator’s skills”(p. 488) . Crockett et al. (2009) found only 19 studies that related to special education leadership and development in the nearly 30 years since Finkenbinder’s call for research on the topic.  \nNCPEA Education Leadership Review, Vol. 14, No. 3– October 2013 ISSN: 1532-0723 © 2013 National Council of Professors of Educational Administration  \nThe 1970s was the decade of the enactment of federal legislation called the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which later became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2004) . Interest in the preparation of leaders in special education was high during this decade as states initiated and expanded special education programming to comply with the federal mandates. Then from 1980 to 2000, interest in the topic appears to have waned based on the rate of published articles. However, recent interest in the preparation of special education administrators appears to have increased, focusing on the dispositions, knowledge, and skills required of special education administrators. The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) has provided the field with a set of content standards based on validated knowledge and skill sets. The CEC noted, “Advanced special education professional content standards describe the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for individuals to practice at accomplished levels of special education and in advanced special education roles”(p. 150) . The CEC standards are used in the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) accreditation process for university programs preparing specia","cbCaih0DedhmEnBR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih0DedhmEnBR","pdf",233674,15,"English","# A Critical Need\n## Evidence of limited research and leadership supply shortage\n# Mentoring as a Viable Method of Preparation\n## Mentoring’s role in acquiring knowledge and skills","[{\"question\":\"What is the central purpose of the study on mentoring?\",\"answer\":\"To determine whether on-the-job mentoring is a viable method for equipping prospective and beginning special education administrators with essential knowledge and skills.\"},{\"question\":\"What research questions does the study ask?\",\"answer\":\"It asks about attainment of knowledge and skills and mentor support functions, agreement between mentors and protégés, and whether outcomes depend on formal versus informal mentoring relationships.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the findings indicate about mentoring?\",\"answer\":\"The findings support mentoring as a critical component in preparing special education administrators.\"}]","The Power of Mentoring in the Career Preparation of Special Education Administrators | PDF",1792093316,38]