Identifying and Explaining the Competencies of Primary School Principals in Mazandaran Province

The purpose of this study was to design and develop a competency model for primary school principals in education in Mazandaran province.

The present study is a quantitative research in terms of applied purpose and based on the nature of the data and is a descriptive survey based on the data collection method. The statistical population of this study was all primary school principals in Mazandaran province that 292 people were selected by cluster random sampling. The main tool for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire on competency dimensions. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.96 through Cronbach's alpha method. In order to analyze the research data, descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, mean test, one-way analysis of variance and Tukey test, one-sample t-test, Friedman and Wilcoxon test were used.

showed that competency dimensions have a different role among primary school principals. According to Friedman and Wilcoxon test, the highest priority was related to the component of using the positive capabilities of oneself and others, and decision-making, team activities, professional skills, leadership skills, communication skills, encouraging typology and change, and work communication were the next priorities, respectively.

According to the value of the level of significance of the variables (greater than 0.05) indicates the acceptability of the variables and following the normal distribution and using the parametric test. The highest mean is related to the work relationship variable (3.91) and the lowest mean is related to the variable of encouragement, innovation and change (3.66). From the final research model 0.0001, the average standard deviation is / 517, the average standard error is / 554. And the degree of fit of the final research model was equal to 3.785.