THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP INDICATORS OF PRIVATE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL OF LAOS

Abstract

The objectives of this study were: 1) to develop instructional leadership indicators, 2) to examine the goodness of fit for the structural model of instructional leadership indicators with the empirical data, and 3) to propose guidelines for the instructional leadership indicators, as developed with the empirical data. There were 728 samples. Data were collected using a rating-scale questionnaire. The statistics included mean, standard deviation, Chi-square, GFI. And AGFI. 

The findings of this study can be summarized as follows: 1) the instructional leadership indicators of private school principle were classified into 5 core factors, 21 sub-factors. And 89 indicators. 2) The consistency of examining the indicators’ confirmatory factor analysis model found that the models were fit to the empirical data following the hypotheses based on the statistics as follows: = 115.69, df = 100, P-value = 0.135,  /df= 1.16, GFI = 0.98, AGFI = 0.96, CFI = 1.00, SRMR = 0.01, RMSEA = 0.02 and CN = 713.86. 3) The results of the instructional leadership development comprised 69 guidelines as follows: (1) 16 guidelines for vision, (2) 15 guidelines for organizational climate, (3) 13 guidelines for curriculum development, (4) 13 guidelines for the professional development of teachers, and (5) 12 guidelines for management innovation development.