Developping 21st Century Leadership Skills Indicators for School Administrators in Anshan Normal

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) To explore the factors and indicator of 21st century leadership skills for school administrators under Anshan Normal University, Liaoning province. 2) To modelling the 21st century leadership skills indicators for school administrators under Anshan Normal University, Liaoning province.The total population of this study included 1,142 administrator and teachers from Anshan Normal University in Liaoning, the People's Republic of China. A stratified random sampling method was used to sample, totaling 480 persons. The instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis were used to perform data analysis using statistical software. Research results revealed that 1) the factors in these studies screened from theoretical framework, it’s consisted of 4 key factors and 13 indicators of 21st century leadership skills. The 4 key factors were: Communication Skills, Creative Skills, Vision Skills, and Cooperation Skills. 2) the developed model of 21 century leadership skills indicator for school administrators under Anshan Normal University is consistent with the empirical data, the value of Chi-square all in line with specified criteria. And the key factors had the weight between 0.84 - 0.9 higher than 0.70; sub-factors/ indicators between 0.70 - 0.92, higher than the criterion as 0.30. should encourage the adoption of this developed model. It was used as a guideline for developing leadership skills in the 21 century for school administrators at Anshan Normal University focus on key components, sub-components, and indicator levels, as the findings showed, because of the developed models were consistent with empirical data. By adopting the model as a development guide, the importance of the main elements should be taken into account. The research found that there are descending components weight values.