THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN IMPROVING INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
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The paper will focus on how educational leadership canenhance the effectiveness of institutions and student outcomes.The research design adopted was descriptive and correlational whereby teachers, administrators, and students weresurveyed using a structured and Likert-scale questionnaire and supplemented bythe institutional performance records.The responses were analyzed using MS Excel (200 responses). The perceptions of leadership practices, institutional effectiveness and student achievement were evaluated using descriptive statistics, such as mean and percentage. Pearsoncorrelation and regression tests were used to test the correlation between variables. The results indicated moderate tohigh mean scores of educational leadership (M = 3.47), institutional effectiveness (M = 3.44) and student achievement (M = 3.46). Leadership and institutional effectiveness (r = 0.81) and leadership and student achievement (r = 0.76) were correlated strongly with each other. The regression analysis showed that educational leadership is a strong predictor of institutional effectiveness as well as student achievement. The paper concludes that good leadership practices are important in improving the performance of organizations and student achievement. The results give useful information to educational leaders and policymakers in coming up with measures that will enhance institutional efficiency and academic achievements.
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