Administrative Excellence Within Public School Heads’ Approach

Abstract

This study investigates the administrative excellence of school heads within public schools in terms of the heads' and competencies evaluation experts' approaches, and differences of their attitudes. The research question is: Which administrative competencies are the most important, best mastered and need to be improved by public school heads? This study aims to reveal school heads' and experts' attitudes to the importance and developing of administrative competencies, and differences of their preferences. Gained data were analysed by using the comparative analysis and statistical methods; statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS. Findings revealed the differences of public school heads' and experts' attitudes to the general competencies: school heads a little more emphasises the importance of competence Communication and information, and less underlined competence Personal effectiveness. The comparative analysis of experts' and public school heads' attitudes to the administrative competencies let us provide recommendations for the state educational institutions on how to improve the evaluation of public school heads' competencies.