Principals’ leadership effectiveness in secondary Schools of kaffa zone

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the principals’ leadership effectiveness in secondary schools of Kaffa Zone. School principals, department heads, students, and PTSAs and supervisors of each Woreda were included in the study as primary sources of data. In order to come to a sound and meaningful conclusion, the study relied on qualitative and quantitative approaches and employed descriptive survey research design. In order to give special emphasis for the combination of urban and rural schools, the researcher used purposive sampling technique to pick up 13 secondary Schools because of their more urban feature being characterized. Simple random sampling was used to select half of the secondary schools already found in the study area. Thus, the population of the study embraced 29 randomly selected secondary schools found in Kaffa Zone. The number of research participants was 714. Data were gathered through questionnaire, interview and document analysis. The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. Findings of the study revealed that many of the secondary school principals have acquired the required level of qualification, but lacked sufficient preparation to effectively promote the desired changes in the schools’ system. Findings also revealed the principals’ lowered effectiveness in creating and maintaining good school culture; evaluating the ongoing achievements of the teaching learning process; and using teachers to evaluate results to improve the instruction process. Finally, the study recommended leadership position attainment conditions needed to be transparent to all concerned parties; orientation required about principalship and the leadership roles expected from school principals; and the need for creating a collaborative staff and the community.