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Instructional leadership
About: Instructional leadership is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8748 publications have been published within this topic receiving 224078 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative impact of different types of leadership on students' academic and non-academic outcomes and concluded that the average effect of instructional leadership on student outcomes was three to four times that of transformational leadership.
Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relative impact of different types of leadership on students' academic and nonacademic outcomes.Research Design:The methodology involved an analysis of findings from 27 published studies of the relationship between leadership and student outcomes. The first meta-analysis, including 22 of the 27 studies, involved a comparison of the effects of transformational and instructional leadership on student outcomes. The second meta-analysis involved a comparison of the effects of five inductively derived sets of leadership practices on student outcomes. Twelve of the studies contributed to this second analysis.Findings: The first meta-analysis indicated that the average effect of instructional leadership on student outcomes was three to four times that of transformational leadership. Inspection of the survey items used to measure school leadership revealed five sets of leadership practices or dimensions: establishing goals and expectations; resourcing strategi...
2,112 citations
TL;DR: An overview of the literature concerning successful school leadership can be found in this article, where the main findings from the wealth of empirical studies undertaken in the leadership field are summarised and discussed.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the literature concerning successful school leadership. It draws on the international literature and is derived from a more extensive review of the literature completed in the early stage of the authors’ project. The prime purpose of this review is to summarise the main findings from the wealth of empirical studies undertaken in the leadership field.
2,071 citations
TL;DR: This article reviewed the conceptual and empirical development of instructional and transformational leadership models and concluded that the suitability or effectiveness of a particular leadership model is linked to factors in the external environment and the local context of a school.
Abstract: Over the past two decades, debate over the most suitable leadership role for principals has been dominated by two conceptual models: instructional leadership and transformational leadership. This article reviews the conceptual and empirical development of these two leadership models. The author concludes that the suitability or effectiveness of a particular leadership model is linked to factors in the external environment and the local context of a school. Moreover, the paper argues that the definitions of the two models are also evolving in response to the changing needs of schools in the context of global educational reforms.
1,719 citations
TL;DR: This article developed a distributed perspective on school leadership as a frame for studying leadership practice, arguing that leadership practice is constituted in the interaction of school leaders, followers, and the situation, and developed a framework for studying the interaction between school leaders and followers.
Abstract: School‐level conditions and school leadership, in particular, are key issues in efforts to change instruction. While new organizational structures and new leadership roles matter to instructional innovation, what seems most critical is how leadership practice is undertaken. Yet, the practice of school leadership has received limited attention in the research literature. Building on activity theory and theories of distributed cognition, this paper develops a distributed perspective on school leadership as a frame for studying leadership practice, arguing that leadership practice is constituted in the interaction of school leaders, followers, and the situation.
1,657 citations