Effect of School Leadership Development Program on Professional Development of Secondary School Heads

Abstract

Professional development is primarily concerned with acquired skills and knowledge for both career and personal development. The research was conducted to find out the effect of school leadership development program regarding professionaldevelopment of secondary school heads. The major objectives of this study were to investigate the effectiveness of school leadership program on the professional development of secondary school heads. Quantitative approach was selected and survey research design was used. The population of the study comprised all the heads of secondary schools of Pakpattan. All eighty-eight male and female heads of public secondary schools of district Pakpattan were taken as the sample of the study.  Self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was collected through questionnaire and analyzed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Mean and standard deviation were calculated. One-way ANOVA and independent sample t-test were used to find the significance difference among demographic variables.