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    Principals’ Administrative Managerial Skills as Correlates to Teachers’ Instructional Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools, Central Gondar Zone, Ethiopia
    (Kenyatta University, 2024-04) Ayalew, Habtamu Reta
    School heads administrative managerial skills and teachers’ instructional effectiveness is a global issue. It contributes to the quality of education across the globe. In this essence, the study aimed at establishing the relationship between the managerial skills of the school heads and the instructional effectiveness of the teachers in public secondary schools, in the Central Gondar region, Ethiopia. The researcher used the following objectives: to determine the relationship between the conceptual managerial skills of the school heads and the instructional effectiveness of the teachers, to identify the relationship between the human relation skills of the heads and the instructional effectiveness of the teachers, to relate the technical skills of the heads and the instructional effectiveness teachers. The study used an explanatory correlational research design with a quantitative research approach. The total study population was fifty heads, fifty vice heads, and one thousand five hundred teachers, totaling one thousand six hundred target respondents. Due to their small number and importance to the research, all school heads and vice heads were selected using census technique. Three hundred seven educators were chosen using simple random sampling techniques because of the homogeneity of the schools. The closed-ended questionnaire was used for data collection for both heads, vice heads and teachers. The expert-judgment was used to verify the content validity of the instruments. The reliability of the instruments was tested using Cronbach's alpha test score, which was above 0.7. The quantitative data were analyzed by using percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, product-moment correlation coefficient of Pearson. The study revealed that there was no statistically significant association between the heads’ conceptual, human relations, and technical skills with teachers ‘instructional effectiveness. The study concludes that there was no statistically significant association between heads' conceptual, human relation, and technical skills and teachers' instructional effectiveness. In light of the findings, the Ministry of Education needs to develop policies that incorporate school leadership to enable public secondary school heads to have an operational document with regards to relevant skills for managing teachers to facilitate their instructional effectiveness and school heads should be involved in seminars and workshops on issues of management in education in order to enhance their administrative managerial skills by acquiring new skills to enhance teachers’ instructional effectiveness.