Abstract

• The objectives of this research are to analyze the principals’ knowledge levels and practice levels on knowledge management (KM), to examine the variations of principals’ KM practices due to their knowledge levels, personal factors (academic qualification, professional qualification, attended workshop, teaching service, gender), and school related factors (type of school and school location), to analyze primary teachers’ levels of teaching performances, to examine the relationship between principals’ KM practices and primary teachers’ teaching performances, to identify the predictors of principals’ KM practices on primary teachers’ teaching performances and the predictors of principals’ personal factors on their KM practices. Quantitative and qualitative methods were employed in this study. A total of ninety principals and four-hundred and eighty teachers from Yangon City Development Area were selected as subjects, using the equal stratified random sampling. The required data for quantitative study were collected by using three sets of questionnaire (one for principals and two for teachers). Interview, documentation, and observation checklists were used for qualitative study. Descriptive statistics, independent sample t Test, one-way ANOVA, Item Percent Correct (IPC), Pearson product moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data in the study. The level of principals’ overall KM practices was moderately high. There were significant differences in principals’ KM practices grouped by their knowledge levels, school location, and gender, types of school, academic qualification, professional training, and attended workshops. There was an association between principals’ KM practices and teachers’ teaching performances. The multiple regression results showed that among the predictors of principals’ KM practices on primary teachers’ teaching performances, process management was appeared as the most influential predictor and among the principals’ personal factors, attended workshop was appeared as the most influential predictor for principals’ KM practices.