Relationship between Leadership Styles of the Female Head Teacher and Academic Achievement of Students in Secondary Schools

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership styles of school heads and find out the relationship between head teachers’ leadership styles and students’ academic achievement in public secondary schools. The study used a quantitative approach. The total population consisted of 19 public girls’ secondary schools, 19 school heads, and 146 female secondary school teachers of district Kech, Balochistan. The study sampled 9 female head teachers and 100 female teachers was selected from 9 respective girls’ secondary schools. The annual results of SSC examinations from 2018 to 2019 were taken from BBISE Quetta as a sample. A random sampling technique was used to collect data. The Likert scale (5 points) was used to collect data from the subjects. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Correlation analysis was conducted at a 0.05 significant level to find out the relationship between the head teachers’ leadership styles and the academic achievement of students’’ in public secondary schools in District Kech. The results revealed that the Democratic leadership style of female head teachers had a significant positive relationship with results from 2018(r=.7.08 and P=0.033) and results from 2019 (r=.8.05 and P=0.009).