Secondary School Principals Research Articles

The Effectiveness of Leadership among Female Secondary School Principals within the Green Line in Light of some Variables

The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of leadership among secondary school principals within the Green Line in light of (gender, academic qualification, experience, and job title) variables. The study used the descriptive survey methodology, and the questionnaire as a study tool after confirming its validity and reliability, the participants were (444) individuals (346 teachers, and 98 female principals) who were selected using stratified random sampling according to job title variable. The results showed a high degree of leadership effectiveness among female secondary school principals within the Green Line from the participants' viewpoint over all domains, and that there were statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α = 0.05) in the domains of self-skills and administrative skills according to the gender variable in favor of females, as well as on the job title variable in favor of female principals, and there were no statistically significant differences according to the variables of academic qualification and experience. The study recommended reconsidering the mechanisms of appointing principals in secondary schools and giving females the opportunity to take over the leadership of secondary schools due to the skills that they possess.

The Role of Educational Coupons in Financing Public Education Institutions in Saudi Arabia

The study aimed to diagnose the role of the use of educational coupons in supporting the financing of public education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to diagnose its role in developing the educational environment in these institutions. The researchers used the descriptive survey method, based on a questionnaire they prepared for this purpose, its validity and reliability were measured. Distributed to a sample of (85) principals in secondary schools in Hafr Al-Batin Governorate, the study reached a number of results, the most important of which are: the total axes of the study obtained a “high” degree of approval with an arithmetic average (4.08). The study also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the sample members about the role of using educational coupons in supporting the financing of public education institutions in Saudi Arabia, as well as the role of using them in developing the educational environment due to the variable of gender or the variable years of service. Based on these results, the researchers recommended for the Ministry of Education to implement educational coupons, as it is one of the forms of financing public education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and an important financing public education in it. Keywords: Coupons, education financing, education spending, public education institutions, Saudi Arabia.

Practice of visionary leadership in secondary schools from the perspective of teachers

The current study aimed to identify the degree of practicing visionary leadership in secondary school leadership from the point of view of teachers in Jerash Province. To achieve the goals of the study and answer its questions, a descriptive survey approach was used to develop the questionnaire. The study sample consisted of 315 teachers who were chosen randomly. The questionnaire was used as a study tool consisting of 31 items consisting of three areas (vision, communication vision, enabling vision) after its validity and reliability had been confirmed. The results showed that the degree of practicing visionary leadership of the secondary school leadership from the point of view of teachers in Jerash Governorate was an average degree. The current study recommended the importance of developing the visionary leadership of secondary school principals in all areas by holding specialized training courses on school leadership. This study provides a different perspective on visionary leadership among leaders in schools, as it captures teachers' perspectives on leaders' practice of visionary leadership. Keywords: Leadership; secondary school leadership; teachers; visionary leadership.

The Practicing Degree of High Schools’ Principals in the North District within the Green Line of Servant Leadership and its Relation to Teachers’ Organizational Commitment

The study aimed to identify the relationship between the degree of practice of secondary school principals in The North district within The Green Line of servant leadership and the level of organizational commitment among teachers at those schools. The descriptive correlational methodology was used, and the questionnaire was a tool for the study. The study sample consisted of (305) teachers who were chosen using the simple random method. The results showed that the degree of servant leadership practice was high, and the level of organizational commitment was high, and the existence of a statistically significant correlation at the significance level (α=0.05) between the degree of servant leadership practice and the level of organizational commitment. The study recommended encouraging school principals to practice servant leadership, and to maintain a high level of emotional, continuity and organizational commitment among teachers.

The Level of Job Performance of Secondary School Principals in Madaba Governorate from the Teachers' Point of View

This study aimed to identify the level of job performance of secondary school principals in Madaba Governorate from the teachers' point of view, according to the variables of gender, experience and educational qualification. The descriptive survey methodology was used. The study sample consisted of (302) male and female teachers. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was developed, which consisted of job performance items consisting of (21) items. Its validity and reliability were verified. The results showed that the level of managerial job performance was medium, and there were statistically significant differences in the estimates of the study sample according to the variables of sex in favor of males, and according to the educational qualification variable in favor of graduate studies, and there were no differences according to the experience variable.

School Facilities Maintenance Strategies and Quality Education Delivery in Public Junior Secondary Schools, Lagos State

This study used five assumptions to guide the examination of the techniques for maintaining school infrastructure and providing high-quality education in public junior secondary schools in Lagos State Education District 1. All 42 public junior secondary school principals and teachers in the chosen education district made up the study's population, which used a descriptive and correlational research approach. 216 principals and teachers made up the sample, which was selected using multistage - stratified, simple random, and purposive selection approaches from the sampled 18 schools. A self-constructed questionnaire with two dimensions, one with 20 items on quality education delivery and the other dimension on school facilities maintenance strategies, were used to collect data for the study. For each dimension, the reliability coefficients for this instrument's were found to be 0.77 and 0.79, respectively with a face and content validity being ensured. Person product moment correlation analysis was used as an inferential statistical technique to analyze the data at the 0.05 level of significance. The research findings indicates a noteworthy correlation between preventative maintenance strategy(r = .813; N=216; p< .05), corrective maintenance strategy (r = .786; N=216; p< .05), routine maintenance strategy (r = .765; N=216; p< .05), emergency maintenance strategy (r = .745; N=216; p< .05), remedial maintenance strategy (r = .925; N=216; p< .05) and quality education delivery in Lagos State Education District I. The study thereafter concluded that school facilities maintenance strategies is apparently a major determining factor of quality education delivery in public junior secondary schools in Lagos State Education District I. Thus, the study's recommendations include, among other things, the requirement that maintenance practices and culture be ingrained in everyone and that all parties involved in the education sector bear responsibility for them in order to guarantee the delivery of high-quality education.

Readiness and Challenges in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Teaching: A Preliminary Perspective Amongst Malaysian Secondary School Principles

Introduction: Malaysia has not legalized CPR teaching in the national curriculum, leaving it to school principals to implement the teaching of CPR who may have limited knowledge. This study aims to investigate Malaysian secondary school principals’ level of readiness, defined as knowledge, attitude, willingness to teach CPR, and barriers to implementation. Methods: Malaysian secondary school principals were invited to complete a survey that consisted of five parts: (1) demographics, (2) CPR knowledge, (3) attitude towards CPR, (4) willingness to teach CPR, and (5) barriers to implementing CPR teaching. Results: A total of 54 secondary school principals responded to the survey. Three (5.6%) principals passed the CPR test. More than 80% agreed CPR course is important for students, mandatory to be taken before graduation and best taught by certified teachers. Principals are willing to qualify themselves and teachers with CPR certification and to provide funding to support and hire an outsider to teach CPR courses. Funding, teachers’ readiness for skills and knowledge proficiency, and curriculum burden are perceived as potential barriers to successful CPR teaching. One-way MANOVA analysis showed that gender (p = .257), age (p = .108), qualifications (p = .321), teaching experience (p = .194), and administrative experience (p = .193) did not have a significant effect on the combined dependent variables. Conclusion: Malaysian secondary school principals are aware of the importance of CPR and were willing to acquire the knowledge, skills, funds, equipment, and support in ensuring its implementation in the national curriculum.

Advice from retired secondary school principals in Ireland on how to lead as a principal

Advice from retired secondary school principals in Ireland on how to lead as a principal

Climate Change: A Correlate of Educational Under-Development in Rivers State, Nigeria

The global focus on climate change has been driven by its profound influence on social, economic, educational, technical, and environmental domains. This research investigated the relationship between climatic change and educational under-development in Rivers State, Nigeria. Three objectives and three hypotheses guided this research. The study utilized a correlational survey design. The population included 286 principals of public senior secondary schools and 18,846 senior secondary school students in Rivers State, Nigeria. The research sample consisted of 559 respondents (167 principals and 392 students). The Taro Yamane method was utilized to determine the sample size. The research questions were analyzed using Simple Regression, while hypotheses were analyzed utilizing t-test associated with regression, at a significance level of 0.05. The results indicated a notable correlation between the view of principals and students about the effect of climate change and the educational underdevelopment in secondary schools. Furthermore, climate change substantially influences students’ academic performance in Rivers State, Nigeria. The survey found that the majority of instructors have not received proper orientation on the potential significance of climate change and how to adjust and minimize its influence on teaching and learning. Also, students understand better in the morning hour, which has a tendency to increase their academic performance. The researchers therefore, recommended, amongst others, that classroom lessons or workshop practice should be carried out in the morning and considerably in the evening to enable better student performance; teachers and students should be properly educated on the dangers of climate change and its mitigating measures.

Survey of Nigerian Secondary School Principals’ Educational Innovation and Leadership Behaviour: Implications for Effective School Management

The Nigeran education system at various levels has witnessed a lot of setbacks in the recent past due to the economic hardship meted on the school administrators. This economic hardship resulted from several factors of which the emergence of coronavirus in late 2019 was a part. This situation has brought a lot of drastic negative changes in the school administration in Nigeria and beyond. Moreover, it is worthy to note that the school's development revolves around the principal who is a major determinant of effective school administration. Thus, the principal's involvement in exhibiting leadership qualities and behaviour is a key element in deciding if the school is successful in attaining its objectives. However, there is a dearth of research on the level of educational innovation of school principals in the Nigerian context. Therefore, this research explored the association between principals’ educational innovation and their leadership behaviour for effective management of schools. This research adopted cross-sectional correlational survey research using a sample of 250 secondary school principals. Innovation and leadership behaviour questionnaires were used for data collection. Data analysis was conducted using regression analysis. The findings of the study revealed that principals' leadership and work behaviours significantly predict their educational innovation. The implication of this is that a principal without good leadership and work behaviours will not be able to exhibit quality educational innovation for the management of schools. The researchers, therefore, recommend that secondary school principals should be properly trained through in-service training to be able to acquire good leadership and work behaviours that are healthy for effective school management.

Assessment of Competencies of Secondary School Principals in Kisii County, Kenya

The question of performance in education has occupied center stage in educational discourse the world over. Many factors have been attributed to influence performance in schools. At the secondary school level in Kenya, principals have been thought to play a crucial role in the performance of students. In Kisii county, the performance of students in examinations has not been impressive and this has partly been blamed on principals. The purpose of this study was therefore to assess the competencies of the principals in Secondary schools in Kisii. The main objectives of the study were to: Determined the competencies of principals in terms of human resource management, general management, financial management, carrying out action research, curriculum development and implementation; and to assess the competencies of the principal in adhering to established supervision criteria. The study used a mixed method research design and within it used concurrent triangulation design. The target population was 360 principals, 360 Board of Management Chairpersons (BOMs), 11 Sub-County Directors of Education (SCDs) and 11 Quality Assurance and Standard Officers (QASO). The sample population consisted of 36 principals, 9 QASOs, 9 SCDs and 36 BOM Chairpersons selected through simple random sampling. Questionnaires and interview guides were used for data collection. The validity of the instruments was ensured through expert vetting. The reliability of the instruments was ascertained through piloting and use of the test-retest method. It was found out that the principals’ competencies in human resource management was poor, general management was average, competencies to carry out action research was average, curriculum development and implementation was average, and supervisory competencies were poor. Based on these findings, it is recommended that the principal should be taken through an education programme to improve their competencies.

Principal Perceptions and Applications of Professional Learning Communities: Implications for the Future of Physical Education

Purpose: To investigate school principals’ perceptions and applications of professional learning communities (PLCs) and how they interpret the roles of physical educators within these structures. Method: This study was conceptualized as an exploratory interview study. Eight elementary and two secondary school principals across four districts participated in semistructured interviews. Each principal had been trained and was currently utilizing the same PLC framework within their respective schools. Result: Data analysis revealed three overarching themes with supportive subthemes: (a) PLCs are Centered on and Structured for Student Learning, (b) The Roles of Physical Educators Differ in Perception and Function, and (c) Successful PLCs are Facilitated by Team Trust and Disrupted by Drift. Discussion: The findings carry implications for principals, physical educators, and physical education teacher education programs. Principals and physical educators have mutually reinforcing responsibilities in creating an equitable space for physical education in the school PLC community.

Distributed Leadership And Its Relationship With Improving Decision-Making Among Secondary School Principals In Jerash Governorate From The Teachers' Point Of View

Distributed Leadership And Its Relationship With Improving Decision-Making Among Secondary School Principals In Jerash Governorate From The Teachers' Point Of View

The Predictive Ability of Mindfulness and Organisational Integrity among Secondary School Principals in Teachers' Hardiness in AlRamtha District from The Teachers' Perspective

The Predictive Ability of Mindfulness and Organisational Integrity among Secondary School Principals in Teachers' Hardiness in AlRamtha District from The Teachers' Perspective

Implementation of the Clean School: Challenges and Prospects in the Far North Region’s Secondary Schools in Cameroon

The implementation of the clean schools remains a global interest in 21st-century secondary schools. To make the world a more sustainable and better place to live in, humanity needs to be able to generate solutions to increasingly complex, and ever-growing challenges in the secondary school setting. Secondary schools encounter day-after-day violence linked happenings students. Violence has caused secondary school unrest, refusal to undertake various activities, sitting in and at other instances, complete damage of institutional assets, and in other instances, death. Other reasons that led to drug abuse included social pressure from the media, frustrations due to poverty, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, need to relax and overcome boredom, among others. This research sought to develop prevention and intervention strategies for curbing violence in public secondary schools in the Far North Region of Cameroon. The objective of the study is to find out various ways and means used by secondary school management to implement the clean school concept in public secondary schools. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 10 participants both inspectors, teachers, and principals in public secondary schools. The study indicated that the effects of drug abuse include addiction, violence, and high-risk sexual behavior. To minimize and eliminate violence the school to educate, guide, and counsel the students, and school management should reward staff that promote the clean school implementation. The study recommended that to implement clean schools every category such as parents, teachers, and administrators should be concerned and keep the focus on the things that bring honor and success to them and the school. All staff in the school should give constant and continuous guidance to students.

Impact of Capacity Building Needs of Principals on Administrative Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Benue State

This study looked into how principals’ capacity-building needs affected the efficacy of administration in public secondary schools in the state of Benue. In particular, the study sought to ascertain the influence of principals’ financial management abilities and students’ personnel management skills on the efficacy of administration in public secondary schools in Benue State, Nigeria. For this study, a survey research design was chosen. The full population of 312 principals of public secondary schools in Benue State served as the study’s sample. Descriptive and inferential statistics, including simple percentage, mean, and standard deviation, were used to analyze the gathered data. In addition, the study’s research questions were tested using the Chi-square. The study’s conclusions showed that principals’ abilities to manage students, personnel, and finances had a major impact on the efficiency of administration in public secondary schools in Benue State. Thus, the study came to the conclusion that principals’ needs for capacity building have a major impact on how well public secondary schools in Benue State are managed. The government should increase the budgetary allocation for principals’ regular training so they can stay up to date on personnel management in schools, among other recommendations made in light of the study’s findings and conclusion.

PRINCIPALS’ ADMINISTRATIVE NEGLIGENCE AND TEACHERS’ JOB COMMITMENT IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BAYELSA AND DELTA STATES, NIGERIA

This study was undertaken to examine principals’ administrative negligence and teachers’ job commitment in public secondary schools in Bayelsa and Delta States. Four research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The study adopted ex post facto research design. The population of the study comprised 17,190 consisting of principals, teachers and members of Post Primary Education Board (PPEB). The sample used was 1035`. The main instruments used were the questionnaires. The statistical tool used for analysis of the research questions were the mean and standard deviation while Pearson’s product moment correlation was used for the test of hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found among others, that there is neglect of basic administrative functions of principals in Bayelsa and Delta States. The average level of teachers’ job commitment for both states was high but principals’ administrative negligence did not account for teachers’ job commitment in public secondary schools in Bayelsa and Delta States respectively. In Delta State, there was a significant relationship between administrative functions that principals neglect and teachers’ job commitment in public secondary schools but in Bayelsa State there was not. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others, that principals should be more effective in the discharge of their administrative functions, the staff of the Post Primary Education Board should beef up their monitoring functions in public secondary schools and principals in public secondary schools should be exposed to regular seminars on school administration.

Influence of Principals’ Management Strategies in the Achievement of Quality Assurance in Public Secondary Schools in Benue State, Nigeria

The study investigated the influence of principals’ management strategies in the achievement of quality assurance in public secondary schools in Benue State, Nigeria. The study was guided by three (3) specific objectives. Three research questions were raised for the study. Also, three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. This study adopted the survey research design. The population of the study is 4888 principals and teachers in all the public secondary schools in Benue State. The sample size is 370 respondents. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled “Influence of Principals’ Management Strategies in the Achievement of Quality Assurance Questionnaire (IPMSAQAQ)”. An overall reliability coefficient of 0.89 was obtained for the instrument. Mean and Standard Deviation were used in answering the research questions while Chi-square goodness of fit was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level. The findings of the study revealed that principals’ instructional, physical facilities and supervisory management strategies significantly influence the achievement of quality assurance in public secondary schools in Benue State. In view of the findings of this study, it was concluded that the utilization of instructional, physical facilities and supervisory management strategies by principals will enhance the sustainability of quality assurance in public secondary schools in Benue state. In view of the findings of this study, it was recommended that; School administrators in Benue State should prioritize the development and implementation of effective personnel management strategies for principals in public secondary schools.

The Practical Dilemma and the Improvement Path of Principals in Secondary Vocational Schools

The Practical Dilemma and the Improvement Path of Principals in Secondary Vocational Schools

Transformational Leadership Behaviours of Public Secondary School Principals for Teachers’ Job Performance in Ebonyi State

This study focused on transformational leadership behaviours of public secondary school principals for teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Two specific purposes with two corresponding research questions and null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Correlation survey research design was adopted for the study. The population consists of 4682 teachers in all public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. There are two hundred and eighty one (281) junior public schools, four thousand six hundred and eighty two (4682) teachers in junior public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Simple random and proportionate sampling technique were adopted to select the sample size of 468 teachers for the study. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistical tool was used to answer the research questions while Linear Regression was used to test the hypotheses. The findings from the data analysis showed that: there is positive relationship between Principals Intellectual Stimulation, Principals’ Individualized Consideration, Principals influence idealized in Ebonyi State while the hypotheses revealed that there is significant relationship between Principals Intellectual Stimulation, Principals’ Individualized Consideration, Principals Idealized influence and teachers’ job performance in Ebonyi State. Based on the findings, the study recommended that Government of Ebonyi State should from time to time organize capacity-building workshops for principals on enhancing their Intellectual Stimulation for effective school administration.