Practice and Contribution of Instructional Leadership in Enhancing Student Results and Its Challenges: The Case of Primary Government Schools of Woreda 12 of Nefas Silk Sub City
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dabi, Kenenisa (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bekele, Dina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-14T09:05:16Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T08:55:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-14T09:05:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T08:55:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study was designed to examine the practice, contribution of instructional leadership in enhancing student results and its challenges in government primary schools of woreda 12 Nefas silk subcity. Thus, the fundamental objectives of the study were to, identify the current instructional leadership practices, find out the extent to which the instructional leadership practices effectiveness in the schools, to describe the challenges faced while implementing the leadership practices and to observe the extent to which the instructional leadership practices have contributed on improving students’ learning outcome. A descriptive survey design was used in the study. The subjects of the study were the teachers, principals, vice principals, department heads and cluster supervisors. Quantitative method was used to collect data from both respondents and was guided by three research questions; such as, how is the instructional leadership practiced in the primary schools? To what extent do the instructional leadership practices contributed to enhance students’ performance/academic results? What are the major challenges faced in the implementation of effective leadership practices? Data were collected by means of questionnaires and document analysis. Accordingly, the data obtained through questionnaires were analyzed by using mean values and standard deviations and the data collected through the open ended questions were described and analyzed. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the woreda under study. Availability sampling techniques were employed to select the principals, cluster supervisors and department heads. Stratified random sampling techniques were used to select teachers based on their rank beginner, proper/main and lead. The total population of teachers’ was 160 and half was taken as a sample and the total population of leaders’ was 48 and all were taken as a sample. The major findings of the study indicated that practices of leaders and challenges faced while implementing the instructional leadership have impact on students’ learning outcome. The lack of finance and additional tasks given by woreda offices were among the problems hindering the principals’ to conduct appropriately the instructional leadership activities. As a result, school leaders were advised to conduct selfassessment and prioritized the problems related to the instructional leadership practices Keywords: PRACTICE, CONTRIBUTION, CHALLENGES, LEADERSHIP, INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/16780 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | PRACTICE | en_US |
| dc.subject | CONTRIBUTION | en_US |
| dc.subject | CHALLENGES | en_US |
| dc.subject | LEADERSHIP | en_US |
| dc.subject | INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP | en_US |
| dc.title | Practice and Contribution of Instructional Leadership in Enhancing Student Results and Its Challenges: The Case of Primary Government Schools of Woreda 12 of Nefas Silk Sub City | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |