La gestión directiva y los rendimientos de alumnos en educación media superior

Today the educational system in Mexico faces certain situations of change and restructuring that affect the functioning of all educational levels. Some researches have identified different factors that affect the educational process, such as the teacher's performance in class, the student's interest and motivation, the environment where the institution develops, and an aspect of great relevance: the role of the principal in his or her institution. The objective of the study was to estimate the relationship between the characteristics of the school principal as a context variable and its relationship with the performance of students at the school, evaluated with a measure of mastery based on the school curriculum. A total of 265 randomly selected high school principals from the state of Sonora participated in the study, who were administered an instrument that evaluates elements of the context in which they work. A multivariate discriminant analysis was carried out to differentiate principals of students with high and low performance, with a predictive effectiveness of 88.40%; the variables that most contributed to the differences were: Meetings and Courses, Infrastructure, and Salary and Problems. It is observed that only the actions that are within the principals' radius of action are the ones that effectively contribute to the generation of the most effective results.