Identifying the dimensions of professional development of school administrators in the horizon of 1404:A Case Study of Principals of Schools in North Khorasan Province

Subject Areas : Education Management

Morteza Akhari ¹ , Maryam Taghvai ² , saeed safariyan hamedani ³

1 - Ph.D Student in Educational Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor and Academic Member of Sari Branch Azad University
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.

Received: 2023-05-15 Accepted : 2023-08-08 Published : 2023-11-22

Keywords: Professional Development, School Principals, educational leadership, Professional Development Model,

Abstract :

The present study aimed to develop and validate a professional development model for high-school principals.This was an applied and cross-sectional research in terms of objective and time, respectively, and had a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative). The participants in the qualitative section included 22 experts related to the research topic in North Khorasan Province, selected by purposive sampling. Data obtained from semi-structured interviews were coded and their validity and reliability were approved based on the experts' and participants’ opinions and the agreement coefficient (CVR=0.87), respectively. The statistical population in the quantitative section included 1957 high-school principals in various academic semesters during 2019-2020, 340 of whom were selected by cluster sampling based on Morgan’s Table.From the perspective of the experts, the five dimensions of professional development included educational leadership, strategic leadership, communication management, organizational management, and ethical leadership, and 14 components were management on learning and teaching, creating a favorable learning environment, curriculum evaluation, vision drawing, continuous improvement of schools, effective communication, relationship with stakeholders, operations management, resource management, individual and team leadership, professional ethics, principles, and Islamic ethical norms, development of their profession and development of human resources profession.According to the results of structural equations with PLS Smart22 showed that the research variables were able to predict professional development at a 0.69 level. It is notable that the overall goodness of fit of the model was favorable (GOF=0.54).