Development Of Core Competency Characteristic Model And Measurement Tool For Ordinary Primary And Secondary School Principals

Competency characteristic model was one of the hot spots in contemporary psychology, education, human resources management, and other areas of study. In 80s and 90s last century's Britain and the United States Administrators competency characteristic researches in primary and secondary schools were developed and school principals competency model was succeeded introduced into national human resources management system. Foreign mature experiences may bring Enlightenment to the Chinese principals'management system. School principals were one of the core figures in schools. Based on the competency theory, this study taking Beijing Dong Cheng District as a case study. Approaches like incident interviews, questionnaires, and semi-open interviews were also used. Primary and core competency characteristic model were Initial constructed, while measurement tool was developed based on the model. New ways of thinking and methods were tried for selecting primary and secondary school principals. The main conclusions of the study were listed as followed:Firstly, the primary competency model for ordinary primary and secondary school principals consisted of 6 main features and 26 competency components. Namely, management features (knowledge of using talents, command capabilities, team building, leadership vision, leadership on education, communication skills, solicitude for order and efficiency); service features (insight of relationship, sense of service); impact features (influence, awareness of organizational rights, resource integration); achievements features (accomplishment desire , initiative , information collection); cognitive features (analytical thinking, conceptual thinking ,overall thinking, professional expertise, innovation); individual performance features(self-control, self-confidence, flexibility, organizational concepts, personal charm and ability to learn). This study renamed the 7 characteristics and re-defined the connotation of the model. 6 features ,namely : leadership on education, communication skills and overall thinking, creative ability, personal charm and ability to learn were added according to the study.Secondly, there existed 12 items in ordinary primary and secondary school principals core competency model: global thinking, team building, learning ability, initiative, knowledge of using talents, communication skills, personal charm, sense of service, self-control, the innovative ability, insight of relationship and command capability. There were 6 features in ordinary primary and secondary principals when Beijing's Dong Cheng District was investigated: personal charm, overall thinking, leadership on education, communication skills, ability to innovate, team-building.Thirdly, this study developed competency measurement tool for ordinary primary and secondary school principals.26 features were analyzed by names, definitions, descriptions, grades, and grades descriptions, which constituted a complete primary and secondary school principals competency evaluation system. Consistency between members of the score Panel themselves and text scored according to interviews on leaders revealed that the measurement tools have good reliability and validity.Fourthly, the statistical analysis shown that there was no significant difference between not only secondary and primary school principals, but also between male and female principals in that 12 core competency characteristics. But there were significant differences in 24 items out of total 26 feature items when compared outstanding and average groups . The rest 2 ,namely Resource integration, flexibility were of no significant differences.