The Impacts of Transformational School Leadership on Student Learning: A Meta-Analytic Review

• In Event: Roundtable Session 90
  In Roundtable Session: Instructional and Transformational Leadership

Abstract

To Know is Not Enough. Before using what we know, however, we must know what we know. The purpose of study is to synthesize transformational school leadership (TSL) research in the last 14 years. The study inquires into the nature of TSL and its impacts on student learning using integrated review methods of standard meta-analysis and narrative review methods. Findings suggest TSL significantly relates to student learning and has significant combined impact with mediating and moderating factors that contribute to student learning significantly. The leadership practices most effective in directly improving student learning and critical paths through which school leadership indirectly influence student learning are identified. Finally, implications of findings for theory, future research and practice are discussed.

Authors

• Jingping Sun, The University of Alabama

• Kenneth A. Leithwood, OISE/University of Toronto