School Culture: Exploring its Relationship with Leadership skills and Student Performance at St. Mary's College Quezon City

Abstract

In today's education era, the summons of approaches to raise school achievement is appealing. Teacher education and professional development activities have been explored by school administrator as an avenue to increase student learning, raise school achievement and meet state accountability measures. The advancement of a positive culture in schools has been pursued by some school administrators as a means of improving school achievement. This study generally aims to explore the relationship between the levels of school culture, leadership skills and student performance in the Basic Education Department of St. Mary's College Quezon City. The descriptive correlational research method was employed in this study. The respondents are 17 Academic Council, 89 teachers and 100 students. The study was conducted in the Basic Education Department of St. Mary's College Quezon City, located at 37 Mo. Ignacia Avenue Quezon City. School Culture Inventory and Leadership skills Assessment were utilised. The study revealed that the school culture of St. Mary's College Quezon City is at the outstanding level as perceived by the academic council, teachers and students. The leadership skills of the administrators of St. Mary's College Quezon City are at an outstanding level as perceived by the academic council, teachers and students. There is no significant difference in the level of school culture as perceived by the Academic Council, teachers, and students. The respondents unanimously perceived that the school culture is in the outstanding level. There is no significant difference in the level of leadership skills of the administrators as perceived by the academic council, teachers, and students. The respondents unanimously perceived that the leadership skills of the administrators are of an outstanding standard. In the light of the findings of this study, the researcher recommends that a school culture assessment be performed in the educational institutions, since positive school culture was found to have a significant relationship with student performance Administrators may consider providing a mentoring program or professional learning communities to the teachers and staff to enhance school culture.