Leadership behaviors of science program chairpersons as perceived by administrators and science teachers in secondary schools in educational region eleven
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1. To study the leadership behavior of science program chairpersons as perceived by administrators and science teachers in secondary schools in educational region eleven. 2. To compare the leadership behavior of science program chairpersons between the perception of administrators and science teacher in secondary schools in educational region eleven. 3. To compare the actual with the expected leadership behavior of science program chairpersons as perceived by administrators and science teachers in secondary in educational region eleven. Procedures: The subject were 70 administrators and 188 science teachers which were stratified randomly sampled from secondary schools in education region eleven in the 1984 academic year. The research instrument was a questionnaire adapted from the LBDQ (Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire.) The questionnaires were sent to the samples .The collected data were analyzed by means of percentage, arithmetic means, standard deviation and t-test finding :1.the actual leadership behavior of science program chairpersons in Initiating structure and consideration, as perceived by both administrators and science teachers were high. 2. The expected leadership behavior of science program chairpersons in Initiating structure and consideration, as perceives by both administrators and science teachers were high. 3. The actual leadership behavior of science program chairpersons in initiating structure and consideration between the perception of administrators and science teachers were significant difference at the .05 level 4. The expected leadership behavior of science program chairpersons in consideration between the perception of administrators and science teachers were not significant difference at the .05 level but in Initiating structure between the perception of administrators and science teachers were significant different at the .05 level.5. The actual leadership behavior of science program chairpersons in Initiating structure and consideration were significant difference from the expected leadership behavior at the .05 level, as perceived by both administrators and science teachers. It was also found that arithmetic means of the expected leadership behavior was higher than arithmetic means of the actual leadership behavior.