Publication: The Influence Of Principals’ Goal Setting Skills On Students’ Academic Performance In Maara Sub County, Kenya
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2024
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European Journal of Education Studies
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The principal's role in educational leadership is defined by the actions he or she performs
or delegates to others to improve the academic achievement of students. The purpose of
this study was to assess the influence of goal-setting skills on students’ academic
performance in Maara Sub County. This study targeted 59 principals and 967 teachers
from the public secondary schools in Maara Sub County. The study employed a stratified
sampling technique for schools, an equal allocation sampling technique for both
principals and teachers for the quantitative phase and a maximum variation sampling
procedure for the qualitative phase. The qualitative portion of the project included
questionnaires for instructors, as well as interview schedules for school principals. Pilot
studies were used to assess the validity of the research instruments, while test re-tests
were used to confirm their dependability. In order to get a sense of how the variables
under consideration are distributed, we utilized means and percentages. Frequency
tables, pie charts, and bar graphs were used to display quantitative data. Principals'
educational leadership techniques and pupils' academic achievement were examined
using the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient.
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goal setting, open social system, performance, skills