Principal competencies and the achievement of national education standard in Indonesia

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the level of principal competencies among principals in the Southern Province of Sulawesi, Indonesia and determine if possible model could be built to show the relationship between principal competencies and the achievement of Indonesian Education Standard. There were 154 respondents of the senior assistant teachers from 40 State Secondary Schools (SMA) in the Southern Province of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The results of descriptive data analysis demonstrated that the competency level of school principals and the level of national education standard of Indonesia were scored at high level. Using these results, further analysis was done using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and the results showed that there were significant relationships between the competency levels of school principals and the achievement of the national education standard of Indonesia (SNP).