Journal of Elementary Education, Vol 33, No 1 (2023)

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Comparison of Instructional Management Practices of Private and Public School Principals

Nadia Saleem, Mushtaq Ahmad, Asghar Ali

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Abstract

Instructional management is procedures of decision making to start a particular activity for students. The study was opted to match the instructional management practices of public and private school head teachers. Research questions were (i) what are the instructional management practices of head teachers in public and private schools? (ii) is there any difference of instructional management practices between private and private school head teachers? Survey method was used for data collection from the population of all the principals of private and public schools of Sargodha city, a sample of 100 principals 50 of public and 50 of private secondary schools were selected conveniently. An adapted questionnaire “Principals Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS)” by Hallinger, & Wang (2013) open access and permitted was used. Data collected through self-approach were analyzed through SPSS version 22. Major findings were that majority of the Principals of private schools are using better instructional management practices than the Principals of public schools. It is recommended that Principals of public school should be given motivational training to put maximum for instruction to compete the private schools.


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