Correlation between Academic Performance and Student's Leadership Qualities of Selected Students of Pambayang Kolehiyo ng Mauban

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

A leader could be any humble person with a good cause. According to Owens and Valesky (n.d.), a leader is also believed to be good for the people and not only looking for his benefits. The leaders are essentially idolized however school leadership has an effect on student achievement by playing a central goal in nurturing the internal condition for developing school instructions as well as maintaining positive school and community relationships. So, the leader is a person who has a vision drive and a commitment to achieve them and to make it develop. Thus, this study aimed to correlate between the academic performance and student's leadership qualities of the selected students of the said school.

METHODS

This research study used the comparative method to determine the relationship between academic performance and the qualities of being a leader of selected officers of the school organization of Pambayang Kolehiyong Mauban. Moreover, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was used.

RESULTS

Based on the data gathered, it was found out that the mean academic performance of selected students obtained the mean score of 1.76, while the leadership quality obtained 1.28. From the computed r-value between the academic performance and the leadership qualities of the selected students are -0.2496 which is greater than the tabular value of -2.02 at 5% level of significance which means that the leadership qualities does not affect the academic performance of the student leaders.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrated that the students need to practice and develop their ability to lead the said organization where they belong. As a leader, they should have a word of honor, the distinction between right and wrong.