Author/Authors :
Khorshidi، Abbas نويسنده Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr Branch, Department of Educational Management, Islamshahr, Iran , , Mehrpour، Maryam نويسنده Department of Educational Administration, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran ,
Abstract :
The present study is intended to compare the performance of female and male principals in high schools at
Tehran city. The statistical population of this survey includes all principals of high schools from 19 educational
regions at Tehran City. Multi stage randomized cluster sampling method (school as unit) was adapted to select
sample group by means of sample size H.S. Bola formula where among total 658 schools, 230 high schools
were studied proportional to density of principals’ population in Tehran City. This research is of applied type in
terms of goals, and quantitative in terms of data, and exploratory in terms of nature and study type since some
questions have been purposed in this study that researcher does not know their orientation. Measurement tool
which has been utilized in this investigation is a 66- question inventory made by the researcher that it measures
principals’ performance according to theory of Cayer and Hanny in 7 variables including educational, training,
research, services, publishing, professional growth, and evaluation. Parameters of descriptive statistics were
used for data analysis and inferential statistic, so- called single sample- test was adopted for determination of
preference order among variables of principals’ performance and also independent T- test was utilized to
compare female and male principals’ performance in the field of performance variables. Results of this study
indicated that: a) there is a significant difference among female and male performance and general performance
of female performance is significantly higher than of male principals; b) in educational, training, and research
variables, female principals’ performance is significantly higher than male principals but in terms of variables
of services, publishing, professional growth, and evaluation, no significant difference is seen between them; c)
The preference order of performance variables in female principals are respectively as follows: Educational,
services, training, research, evaluation, professional growth, and publishing; while these parameters in male
principals include evaluation, educational, services, training, professional growth, publishing, and research.
