School Leadership Effectiveness In Implementing School Improvement Program (Sip) In Government Secondary Schools Of Adama City Adminstration, Oromia Regional State

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate school leadership effectiveness in implementing school improvement program (SIP) in government secondary schools of Adama City Administration, Oromia Regional State. The researcher used correlational research design to conduct the study in the sampled study areas. The researcher used multi stage sampling to select respondents of the study in the specified study area. Purposive sampling was used to select head teachers, supervisors and PTAs while simple random sampling was employed to select secondary school teachers. There data collection instruments (questionnaire, interview and FGD) were used to collect data for the study. Data gathered through questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics (mean, frequency distribution). Besides, multiple regression and correlation analysis were used identify the relationship between school leadership effectiveness and SIP implementations. The finding of the study identified that among the four domains of SIP; teaching –learning domain and community involvement domains were moderately practiced. However, the finding identified that leadership and management domain and school environment domains were highly implemented in the study areas. Related to barriers to implement SIP the study disclosed that teacher challenges, school environment challenges and financial and school facilities related challenges had profound influence on SIP implementations while school leaders related challenges moderately affected the implementations of SIP. Based on the major finding of the study and the problems addressed the researcher recommended that Stakeholders should exert their effort accordingly to enhance community participation, School leaders should develop SIP plan after conducting effective self-evaluation to identify their strength and weaknesses.