Development and Validation of School Principal’s Leadership Practices Questionnaire

Abstract

Leadership is the key to the success of any organisation. The same is true to a school. We have seen many schools turned around thanks to good leadership. Keeping in view the importance of leadership to the success of an organisation, Principal’s Leadership Practices Questionnaire with 58 items was developed from literature review to facilitate researchers, policy makers and principals, to find the leadership practices, find gaps and plan for improvement.  Expert opinion was sought from psychologists and educationists for the validity of items. Items that were marked irrelevant were deleted. A pool of 56 items were left, that were then distributed to 200 principals, equally distributed by gender, to measure themselves on five- point Likert’s Scale. Data was fed into SPSS to check the reliability. The final scale consists of 55 items with .91 Cronbach Alpha reliability.