Effects of Head Headteachers’ Interpersonal Skills on Students’ Academic Achievement at Elementary Level
Keywords:
Interpersonal skills, students’ academic achievement, Elementary LevelAbstract
The study's primary goal was to investigate how head teachers' interpersonal abilities affected their pupils' academic performance. The study intended to explore the impact of headteachers' interpersonal skills on students' academic accomplishment and the relationship between academic achievement and headteachers' interpersonal skills. The study's character was primarily descriptive, and data gathering involved employing a survey methodology. For this purpose, the researcher administered a self-developed questionnaire consisting of 25 items from the relevant literature, to find out the effects of head teachers’ interpersonal skills on students’ academic achievement. Two experts from education department of Mohi-ud-din Islamic University examined the questionnaire, and the reliability coefficient registered a value of 0.85. Data was collected through the simple random sampling technique from, 331 male students of 8th-grade public schools from Tehsil Baluch, District Sudhnooti Azad Kashmir. The data-gathering process involved the researcher making in-person visits to the selected schools. The researcher applied simple linear regression to analyze the data. After analysis of data, it was found that headteachers' interpersonal skills create positive effects on students’ academic achievement.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10500853
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