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| Educational Leadership and Decision Making Skills as Correlates to School Performance: Inputs to Proposed E-School Based Management System
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Ande F. Balmaceda, Ph D
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Abstract:
The existence of situation that necessitate appropriate decisions among school administrators lent support for the conceptualization of this study. Four secondary schools in the Division of Antipolo City and four in the Division of Rizal were selected based on relatively large student population. Respondents were all administrators of these schools composed of school heads, master teachers and head teachers; teachers; and other stakeholders. A validated questionnaire served as the main research instrument. Analyses of the data led to some findings. Administrators in both Divisions generally have less than 15 years of teaching experience, have earned units in the master's program and were relatively new in their respective positions. The three groups of respondents perceived the administrators to have highly practiced educational leadership (WM=3.18) and decision-making skills (WM=3.19). The levels of perceptions significantly differed in the aspect of administrative leadership (F=8.722). Perceptions on the decisionmaking skills significantly differed in autocratic (F=12.353), directive-autocratic (F=9.470), collective-participative (F=37.714), consensus (F=8.333) and collaborative (F=4.48) skills. In the perceptions of teachers, educational leadership was significantly correlated with the decision-making skills (r=0.790). School performance in terms of governance was very satisfactory (M=4.52) But this performance was not translated into quality of instruction as the schools' performance in the National Achievement Test (NAT) resulted to a level much lower than the mastery level (M=4.681). Access to the schools was good (Enrolment 7223). But these factors on governance were not significantly correlated with the perceptions of administrators and teachers on the educational leadership and decision-making skills. An e-School Based Management System was proposed.
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