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    Transactional and instructional leadership behavior and student’s retention intention at school level
    (UMT Lahore, 2024-08-15) Ayesha Ashraf
    Numerous academic research have looked into the low rates of student retention in educational institutions. In order to meet the demands of students, institutions are working to improve the quality of their programmes in an effort to retain or grow the number of enrolled students. This study aims to investigate the relationship among transactional, instructional and students intention retention by keep mediating role of school climate on the relationship. For this purpose, data was collected through questionnaire at once a time by using survey methodology. A sample of 1000 (500 private and 500 public) Secondary Schools were selected by using convenient sampling technique and data was collected from 500 head teachers and 500 teachers. The selection criteria for the participants included teachers with five or more years of service within the district. Instructional Leadership questionnaire was based on Hallinger, (2008) model of Instructional Leadership while the School Level Environment Questionnaire (SLEQ) was also adopted for the study. Furthermore, Transactional leadership in education can affect student retention by fostering a routine and controlled atmosphere. Praise, grades, and privileges are examples of reward systems that can encourage students to reach behavioral and academic standards, which in turn affects their intention to continue in school. Instructional leaders establish circumstances that motivate students to be involved in and dedicated to their education by assisting teachers, enhancing instructional strategies, and cultivating a culture that emphasizes academic achievement. The numerical findings suggested that there has significant impact of leadership behavior such as transactional and instructional on student’ intention retention. Moreover, It is also found that partially mediating role of school climate on the relationship between transactional, instructional behavior and student’ retention’ intention.