Document Type : Research Article (Quantitative)

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran

3 Professor, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of providing and validating cultural leadership assessment tools in school principals in Qom province.
Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive-correlational. The population of this research was the schools principals of Qom province in the 2019-20 academic years, which their number was 944 people. The sample size based on Cochran's formula was estimated to be 274 people, which due to the possible losses number of 300 people were selected by simple random sampling method as a sample, but due to 10 missing questionnaires the analyzes were performed for 290 people. For cultural leadership designed a 129-item researcher-made questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale and were examined its psychometric indices. The content validity of the questionnaire was investigated by experts and the construct validity of the instrument was investigated by exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was investigated by Cronbach's alpha in SPSS-25 software.
Findings: The results showed that the content validity of the instrument was confirmed with the opinion of experts and reviewing the structure validity indicated that 11 items were removed from the tool due to factor loading less than 0.3 and the final tool had 118 items. The cultural leadership assessment questionnaire in school principals had 25 factors that the factor load and convergent validity of all factors were higher than 0.5 and the reliability of all of them and total of tolls by Cronbach's alpha method was higher than 0.70.
Conclusion: The cultural leadership assessment questionnaire in school principals with 25 factors had appropriate psychometric indices. Therefore, education officials and planners can use this tool to select principals and based on it select capable principals.

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