The Correlation between Instructional Leadership Capacity of School Principals and Academic Performance of Students in Secondary Schools in South East Nigeria

Abstract

The correlation between Instructional leadership Capacity of school principals and the academic performance students was carried out to address the continued poor performance of secondary school students in certification examinations in South East Nigeria. It adopted descriptive survey research design. A sample of 162 principals and 1077 teachers were selected through multi stage sampling technique. Questionnaire was used to elicit information from respondents.

Major findings of the study showed that school principals’ instructional leadership capacities positively influence the academic performance of students in examinations and they need capacity building in instructional leadership capacities used in the study. Based on the findings government should organize capacity building program to upgrade the instructional leadership capacities of school principals.

Keywords: School principals; Instructional Leadership capacity; capacity building of principals; Students academic performance