Leadership practices of secondary school principals in the province of Capiz

Abstract

This quantitative-qualitative study intended to determine the leadership practices of the Secondary School Principals in the Province of Capiz, Philippines for the school year 2013-14 and to determine the significant differences of the leadership practices among Secondary School Principals in the Province of Capiz. For the quantitative design, the survey method was utilized; for the qualitative design, the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was conducted. A total of 80 public and private secondary school principals in the Province of Capiz for School Year 2013- 2014 were utilized as respondents of the study. The descriptive statistics used were the frequency count, percentage, and standard deviation whereas the inferential statistics used was the analysis of variance. The alpha level of significance was set at .05. The findings of the study revealed that the most dominant leadership practices of Secondary School principals is that which “challenge the process” and there are significant differences between the leadership practices of the secondary school principals.