Effect of School Heads’ Inspirational Motivation Leadership Practices on Students Academic Achievement in Public High Schools in Kumasi Metropolitan, Ghana
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Date
2020
Authors
Gyansah, Samuel
Ogola, Martin
Guantai, Hellen
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International Knowledge Sharing Platform
Abstract
Inspirational motivation leadership behaviour among school heads is critical in shaping students behaviour in a
school context. This has aroused scholarly interest globally. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of
school heads’ inspirational motivation leadership practices on students’ academic achievement in public high
schools in Kumasi metropolitan, Ghana. The study adopted the transformational leadership theory espoused by
James McGregor Burns (1978) and supported by Bass (1985). The convergent parallel design, a strand of the
mixed methods approach was engaged for this study. The target population was 17370, and consisted of 19 heads
of schools, 2122 teachers, and 15229 students. This study on the basis of Slovin’s sample calculation formula,
sampled 424 teachers and 552 students from the 19 schools selected. The study further employed Kothari’s
proportional representation method to determine sample size for teachers and students for each school. The study
used random sampling technique to sample students and teachers from the schools. Data were collected with
questionnaire and interviews. Experts in Educational Management were requested to address the content validity
of the data collection instruments for the study. Cronbach’s Alpha test showed that the instruments were reliable.
Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data. In descriptive statistics, frequency,
weighted average, standard deviation, and percentages were used. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression analysis
was employed to determine the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. The study controlled
for factors that could influence students’ academic achievement, these included sex of student, family structure
of student, average age of teachers in a school, sex of teachers for a school, average educational attainment of
teachers in a school, average teachers’ rank in a school, and average number of years teachers have spent in a
school. Analysed quantitative data was presented in tables. Qualitative data were analysed thematically and
presented in narratives and in verbatim forms. The study used 5% significance level. The study concluded that
inspirational motivation leadership behaviours of school heads had significant positive effect on students’
academic achievement. The study recommends that school heads should adopt this transformational leadership
practice to ensure improvement in students’ academic achievement.
Description
A research article published in Journal of Education and Practice
Keywords
Inspirational motivation, Transformational leadership, School head
Citation
Gyansah, S., Ogola, M., & Guantai, H. (2020). Effect of School Heads’ Inspirational Motivation Leadership Practices on Students Academic Achievement in Public High Schools in Kumasi Metropolitan, Ghana.