Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to find out the leadership behaviours of school heads of
public and private junior high school head teachers in Tafo–Pankrono circuit Sub in
Kumasi Metropolis and its impact of the students’ academic performance. The sample for
the study consisted of 120 teachers comprising of 60 from public schools and 60 from
private schools, together with 9 public school head masters and other 9 private school head
masters. Questionnaire in the form of likert format ranging from strongly disagree (1) to
strongly agree (4) was used to collect data. The reliability estimates for teachers was 0.85
and that of the head masters was 0.78. The methodological inquiry was quantitative
research approach using descriptive cross-sectional design which included the following
statistical analyses: mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research
questions. Findings revealed that whiles teachers in private schools agreed that their
headmasters employed communication skills in managing their schools, their counterparts
in public schools disagreed. The study also revealed that whiles teachers in public schools
noted that the level students’ academic orientation in their schools was low, their
counterparts in private schools claimed that it was high. The head master perception on the
same issues indicated that both head teachers in public and private school agreed that the
level of academic orientation in their schools was high. Based on the findings, it was
recommended that government should make conscious effort to improve the leadership
behaviours of head teachers in public school by running in-service training of leadership
behaviours for them.
Description:
A Project Report in the Department of Educational Leadership, Faculty of
Education and Communication Sciences, submitted to the School of Graduate
Studies, University of Education, Winneba, in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for award of the Master of Arts (Educational Leadership) degree
DECEMBER, 2018