SCHOOL CULTURE AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS: SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The government schools in Pakistan are showing low performance for different reasons such as low level of leadership, untrained teachers, minimum community involvement, 2% education budget, and nonavailability of resources. This study clarifies the way through selfdevelopment of schools to get effectiveness in such circumstances of schools in Mardan district of Pakistan. The study tries to prove that the school culture development by the instructional leaders can help them to achieve their goals. The main aim of this study is to find out that the development of school culture needs no extra budget, but has a great role in motivation. The research design was non-experimental design with survey study. Different statistical methods such as descriptive statistics and Spearman rho were used to analyze the data using SPSS-22 and AMOS-22. It was found that the present level of school culture in the stated schools is low and there is a significant relationship between school culture and school effectiveness. It was concluded that high level of school culture will help achieve high the level of school effectiveness.