The Relationship Between Principal's Leadership and School Effectiveness : Quantitative and Qualitative Understandings of Leadership

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the "causality" between leadership of a principal as transformational leader and school effectiveness through a quantitative approach and to extract the strategy ("how to" improvement) that is using it for the improvement of school effectiveness through a qualitative approach. Thereupon, this study constructed next three watching points-the transformational leadership argument, the school effectiveness research, quantitative/qualitative approaches-. Construction of a causal model as a quantitative approach on the occasion of, we set up the transformational leadership and the transactional leadership as a leadership variable, and the school effectiveness as a effectiveness variable. The data that was obtained was analyzed by the method of covariance structure model analysis. We used the technique of field work as a qualitative approach. The field work was carried out extending for a period of 12 days through five months. We try hard to the collection of interview records and documents such as the school handbooks in addition to the preparation of fieldnotes in the observation period. The point that was announced by the above survey and also field work is as follows. 1. This principal as a transformational leader was exerting the strong influence to the school effectiveness by the display of the transformational leadership and the transactional leadership. 2. This principal was forming the exchange relation between the administrative demand of oneself and autonomic demand of teachers through next three strategies, the strategy of "efficacy", "curriculum management-by weekly planning notes", and "ability management". Also, these each strategy were having the common feature that giving a multidimensional means to ones administrative behavior. 3. This principal had realized the voluntary innovation that went along his visions through the strategy of "building a experimental culture" and "make to acceptance