DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF LEADERSHIP SKILL INVENTORY FOR PRINCIPALS OF MISSION SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

This study was designed to develop and validate Leadership Skill Inventory (LSI) for principals of Mission schools in South East, Nigeria. The study employed an instrumentation research design. A systematic sample of two hundred and five (205) principals of mission secondary schools in South East was used. Five research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. Data were collected using a draft copy of the Principal Leadership Skill Inventory. Data collected were subjected to construct validation using factor analysis with varimax rotation for purpose of establishing the psychometric properties of the LSI. Thirty-two out of sixty items attained acceptance minimum factor loading of 0.35 on five factors .The factors represented the sub-scales of Principal leadership skill inventory as, Administration, Welfare, Instruction, Communication, and Discipline. Test of internal consistency using Cronbach Alpha showed that the overall reliability index of 32 items of LSI is 0.91.The i...