The Role of Scientific-Technology Literacy of Educational Leaders in Increasing the Components of Soft Skill

Administrator soft skills are very useful for organization effective and self-efficacy. School administrators need to complete their formal and informal skills in relation to staff and community.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of educational managers' scientific-technology literacy in increasing the soft skills components.

The research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection, it is a field-library type and a correlation type (regression) method. The statistical population includes 200 schoolchildren in all cities of Ardabil. The sample size was estimated by the Krejci-Morgan formula of 80 people. Sampling was carried out using simple random sampling. The instrument used in this research is a standard questionnaire - Miller scientific-technology literacy Questionnaire (2006) and a Khalegkhah and Najafi researcher made questionnaire (2018) of soft skills. The validity of the tools was verified by confirmatory factor analysis and their reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient (internal consistency). Data was analyzed by using of Spss20 software.

The results of the findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between scientific literacy and the soft skills of educational managers (r = 0.56; p < 0.05); Also, technology literacy has a positive and significant relationship with soft skills of educational managers (r = 0.55, p < 0.05). The results of simultaneous regression showed that scientific-technology literacy can explain and predict about % 67 of soft skills changes in educational managers (Adj = 0.134; r = 0.820; R2 = 0.672) that The highest is the scientific literacy with a beta coefficient of 0.39 (β = 0.39).

Soft skills of managers are needed more than hard and formal skills in today's changing and competitive world and educational managers should pay special attention to the ways to increase it.