Evaluation of Leadership Development Program for Secondary School Heads: Perceived Satisfaction, Learning and its Implementation

This study intends to evaluate the leadership development program of secondary school heads in Pakistan. The leadership development program consists of the level of learning, perceived satisfaction, and implementation of learning. The population for this study was 334 head teachers of Lahore district. Stratified sampling technique was employed to draw 100 head teachers (both male and female) from five Tehsils of Lahore district. While, quantitative research design was used to conduct this study. A questionnaire was used to collect the data on five points Likert scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS. Findings have shown that satisfaction was found at the top level with 54.40 mean score of the three variables analysis. While, implementation was found at the lowest score of 42.95. Considering different age brackets, learning was at top level, satisfaction was in the middle and implementation was at the lowest level. One-way ANOVA showed that satisfaction was at top level, learning was in the middle and implementation was at the lowest level. Considering gender female showed greater score than male in learning, while male showed greater score than female in satisfaction. On the other hand, implementation was found at the lowest level. Findings imply that a concrete policy of monitoring and implementing the leadership development should be initiated. Additionally, periodic assessment should be introduced to evaluate the implementation of leadership development program. Finally, feedback from teachers regarding the implementation by head teachers should be the part of the policy.