AASA CONFERENCE--PRESENTATION March 30, 2017 Noëlle Jacquelin

AASA CONFERENCE--PRESENTATION March 30, 2017 Noëlle Jacquelin

Emotional-Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Gender in Contemporary New Jersey School Districts

http://www.njasa.net/Page/1608

An examination into the relationship between the self-perceived emotional-social intelligence and the self-perceived leadership effectiveness of New Jersey educational administrators in relation to issues potentially complicated by gender will be reviewed. Both emotional-social intelligence and leadership will be categorized into more specific aspects for comparison purposes. Several research questions will be posed and studied. The null hypothesis that will be discussed relates to whether or not there are significant differences between male and female school leaders’ responses on two survey instruments (LPI and EQ-i 2.0). Exploration will be made into whether or not a there is the relationship between emotional-social intelligence and administrators’ self-perceived performance when analyzing response variables and explanatory variables of each gender group. Resultant quantitative and potential qualitative data will be analyzed, triangulated, as will measures of validity and reliability. The work provides a framework to better understand the emotional-social acuity, leadership skills, and experiential history of male and female New Jersey educational leaders in relation to past and current professional organizational experiences. Preliminary suggestions for additional research in the area of leadership development in schools will be explored.