An assessment of the performance of public school principals in the Division of City Schools, Manila trained on advanced management development program (AMDP) / Luisito S. San Valentin. 6

Thesis (M.A.) -- Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 1999.;A thesis presented to the faculty of Graduate School of Arts, Sciences and Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in School Principalship. 56

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ABSTRACT: The Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP) is one of the most important and now institutionalized human resource development programs of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) conducted by the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) during the summers of 1991 and 1992 given to selected 805 school level executives from the 15 regions of the Philippines. The researcher who is presently an intermediate English teacher in the Division of City Schools, Manila and also a masteral student of School Principalship (MASP) at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) decided to evaluate the performance of those public school principals from the DCS, Manila who trained in the AMDP as the subject of his masteral thesis entitled An Assessment of the Performance of Public School Principals in the Division of City Schools, Manila Trained on the Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP). The Descriptive/ Normative survey method of research was employed by randomly selecting 15 public school principals who finished the AMDP (Group I) and 15 public school principals without AMDP training (Group II) in the Division of City Schools, Manila. To control the variables, the researcher chose only those respondents who have rendered at least one complete and continuous service or tenure during the school year 1996-1997 in particular school. The NEAT/ NSAT results and the Division Pre-Post Achievement Test results during the school year 1996-1997 were used as the independent variables or predictors. The two groups of respondents were compared of their performance based on their demographic profile such as their age, educational attainment and administrative experience as school principals with the rankings of their schools. The null hypothesis was accepted which states that There is no significant relationship between the performance of the respondents and the AMDP training because the t-ratios obtained were -.25 for the NEAT/ NSAT results and 0.13 for the Division Pre-Post Achievement Test result and less than 2.048 at p<.05 level of significance for 28 df. The findings of this study showed that those public school principals (Group II) respondents have better performance than those (Group I) respondents. It further revealed that those public school principals who finished the AMDP training did not effectively implement or applied what they learned from this particular management training based on the academic achievement of their pupils/ students using the NEAT/ NSAT results and the Division Pre-Post Achievement Test result. They failed primarily in the Instructional Development of their schools which is one of the most important Key Areas of Concern for school principals. This study therefore recommended that AMDP graduates be monitored and evaluated of their performances regularly. The higher and middle level education officials such as the Regional Directors and Division School Superintendents be involved in the Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP) to further solicit their support, cooperation and concern.

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