The Influence of Principals’ Strategic Leadership on Students’ Outcome

Abstract

The principal strategic leadership strongly influences school performance, especially on students' achievement in academic, co-curriculum and personal. Various training and leadership courses are held for the principals to ensure that this group can translate it into strategically planned efforts thus producing excellent schools. In the Malaysian education context, there are three (3) elements of students' outcome, namely academic, co-curriculum and personality, which depend on a good and strategic principal leadership. The study was conducted to examine the level of principals' strategic leadership and students' outcome and the relationship between the two. The study was conducted in 85 secondary schools in one of the states in Malaysia, involving 374 respondents to answer the questionnaire based on Davies and Davies (2004) Strategic Leadership theory and the 2nd Wave of Malaysian Education Quality Standard (SKPMg2). The findings showed that the level of Strategic Leadership among principals was very high (mean = 4.32, S.D. = 0.421), whereas Students' Outcome also very high (mean = 4.53, S.D. = 0.373). In addition, the findings of this study indicated that there was a significant relationship between the principals' strategic leadership and the students' outcome. This shows that the principals' strategic leadership practice could influence students' outcome in the secondary school.

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