RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPAL’S LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SCHOOL CULTURE
Abstract
- This study focused on the relationship between principal’s leadership behaviours to academic achievement and school culture at selected High Achieving and Low Achieving High Schools in Mandalay. Mixed research method was used in this study. The sample schools which had limited to the schools by using two criteria: two years consecutive Matriculation Examination Pass Rate of Mandalay District and the participants who had been at least two years at the current school. Four principals and 309 teachers at different levels in high achieving and low achieving high schools participated in this study. For this study, Leadership Orientation Survey (Self and Other) designed by Bolman and Deal (1991, as cited in King, 2006) was used to investigate the principal’s leadership behaviours and School Improvement Questionnaire (SIQ II) developed by Webb and Pajares (1996, as cited in Clear, 2005) was also used to explore the levels of their school culture. According to quantitative research findings, principal’s leadership behaviours and school culture were positively and moderately correlated in both high achieving (r=0.419, p<0.01) and low achieving schools (r=0.573, p<0.01). Qualitative research findings are further provided to complete the quantitative findings for the teachers’ perceptions on their principal’s leadership behaviours and school culture of selected high and low achieving schools. Based on the related literature and findings of this study, it was recommended that, principals should know about how to operate all four frames of leadership behaviours depending on the conditions and how to shape and change positive school culture for student achievement and schools’ success.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Moe Moe Aung
Subject
- Educational Theory
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)