Analysis of Educational Leadership Principles by Student Perception

Studies and research on leadership continue to flourish, and from this emerges various leadership approaches and theories. Most of the leadership approaches and theories developed over the past half century have emphasized the characteristics of leaders. As one of the earliest approaches or theories of studying leadership, the traits approach emphasizes the nature or character of leaders such as personality, social, intellectual characters that are thought to have an effect on the effectiveness and success of the organization toward its goals. The results show there are 60 traits or characters that educational leaders should have (according to student perceptions). There are 30 traits or characters that educational leaders should not have. There are ten characteristics or characters of the most preferred educational leaders according to the students' perceptions. There are 23 characteristics or characteristics of educational leaders are the most disliked according to student perceptions.