Influence of principals’ management dynamics on students’ academic performance in public secondary schools in Tigania east sub county Kenya

Abstract

The motivation for this study, which was conducted in public secondary schools in Tigania East Sub County, Kenya, was learning how the management dynamic of principal’s influences students' academic progress. This study aimed to address numerous issues concerning how principals could affect student performance in public secondary education in Tigania East Sub County. Particularly, it sought to ascertain how principals' use of student councils and open forum approaches affected student performance, how much of an impact principals' use of technology in the classroom had on student achievement, and how much of an impact principals' use of collaborative strategies had on student achievement. Two theories informed the variables of the study: Kurt Lewin's Theory of Change and Havelock's Theory. Target population for the study consisted in five hundred and four students from twenty-25 separate public high schools in Tigania East Sub County. The group consisted in 250 teachers from 25 different schools and 25 managers (one from every institution), together with 200 student leaders from every one of the 25 participating universities. The choice of the study site was guided by the research challenge. The study applied a mixed-methods approach combining non-numerical data collecting with numerical ones. Concurrent triangulation is the idea behind the descriptive survey design the study applied. The data was analyzed using multiple regressions, and the study took a quantitative approach grounded on survey techniques. Multiple linear regression analysis also helped to explain around 66.6% of the variation in the student's academic performance by the independent variables. When several changes were done concurrently, students' academic performance showed much improvement. For principals, a more sympathetic and flexible attitude toward instructor and student feedback was advised.