THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP LEVEL OF STUDENTS: THE CASE OF NEKEMTE CITY, ETHIOPIA

Education, Social Science, Humanities

Education is crucial and necessary for each and every person in order to improve knowledge, way of living as well as social and economic status throughout the life. Making sure people attain this can be difficult and to measure its efficiency at times. The purpose of this study was to examine the level of influence of leadership and learning environment on students’ academic achievement. The study employed survey design, quantitative method and simple random sampling technique. The data was analysed using frequency distribution and independent samples t-test. The findings indicated that while both leadership and learning environment had a positive influence on the level of the students’ learning g achievement, leadership tended to have a greater influence than learning environment in the study area. Thus, the primary school principals in Nekemte need to keep on applying appropriate leadership styles besides establishing conducive learning environment in their respective schools; moreover, rigorous research supported by causal comparative model has to be conducted on the research problem so that it might contribute to alleviating the problem.

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