Leadership Commitment in Creating Effective School Environment in Selected Secondary School of Central Zone Tigray

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between school leadership commitment and creating effective school environment in secondary school of central zone of Tigray, Ethiopia: To what extent leader commitment is effective in creating effective school environment in secondary school of central zone of Tigray, Ethiopia?, do school leaders perform the functions of school leadership activities.to create effective school environment within their secondary school? and what are the supports which will manage for the leadership commitment in creating effective school environment? The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods and has employed correlation research design to investigate whether and to what extent a relationship between school leader’s commitment and creating effective school environment existed. In this study, 156 teachers were selected using simple random sampling technique. In addition to that, 9 principals, 15 vice principals, and 6 supervisors were selected using the available sampling technique while 7 woreda education office experts were selected using purposive sampling technique to give information at the semi structured interview regarding the effectiveness of school leader’s commitment on creating their school environment effective. In order to get a relevant data for the study the researcher used both primary and secondary data in which the primary data was gathered using questionnaire with five likert scales and Interviews and the Secondary data was gathered from Students’ national exam result and efficiency of Principals document. The study findings showed that, there was a significant positive correlation between School leadership commitment and creating effective school environment. Hence, the findings indicated that, there was a strong positive correlation(r = .997) between School leadership commitment and creating effective school environment. The researcher therefore recommended that, further research on extended time and large sample of secondary schools to come up with more valid finding. The study based on the findings give recommendations for better stand to: School leaders need to find ways of including the community in the life of the school and raise positive relationships with the community.