Practices and Challenges of Instructional Leadership in Joint Military Staff College at Mekelle
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This Study was aimed at assessing the practices and challenges of instructional leadership in
the Joint Military Staff College at Mekelle. To this end, the investigator has raised four basic
questions and addressed the instructional leadership practices in terms of the five dimensions,
the effective and clear practices of the strategic plan, the alignment of instructional leadership
with the strategic plan and its objectives and challenges faced during instructional leadership.
In order to achieve the intended objective, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were
employed. In order to gather data, closed ended questionnaire and structured interview were
used as instruments of data collection. The study was conducted in one college by including the
four faculties that exist. The participants of the study were 44 leaders, 56 instructors and 91
students and they were selected using both purposive and stratified sampling techniques. The
data collected through the questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics like
frequencies and percentage, mean value and standard devotion and tables since they are
quantitative nature. Those data gathered through interview were analyzed qualitatively in the
form of narration. Findings from the data analysis revealed that there were attempts to
implement instructional leadership process on the basis of the five dimensions but it was not to
the level of satisfactory (mean <3.00) as responded by managers, instructors and students.
It is also evident that the alignment of the instructional leadership practices with that of the
college’s strategic plan and its objectives was found to be very weak (mean<2.5).
Furthermore the study has shown that among the possible challenges of instructional leadership
those that are related to managing vision and mission as well as the availability of resources
were considered as moderately constraining while personality and organizational
characteristics were regarded as least constraining. It is, therefore concluded that there are
gaps in the instructional leadership practices of the JMSC. Thus, to tackle these observed gaps,
all the stakeholders need to be involved so that the objectives of the college would be met
through effective leadership.
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Practices and Challenges, of Instructional Leadership