American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

 The purpose of this quantitative study is to explain the possible impact of practices of leadership and management actors on student’s outcomes. The survey was carried through a questionnaire to ascertain the school leadership and management practices of 100 members of school management of 27 primary pilot schools were linked to 1620 students’ outcomes. The findings pointed out 39 significant practices in students outcomes among 82 selected practices. All these practices relate directly to the daily, monthly, trimestral and yearly duties of school leadership and management actors in DRC context. These practices are grouped into 3 components with 16 variables. The range from effective leadership and supervision of pedagogy; effective operational and strategic management of human, material and financial, information, and time resources available for school operations as well as an appropriate school environment.