Principals / school leaders

Overview

Influence: Principals / school leaders
Domain: School
Sub-Domain: Leadership
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
Influence Definition: Principals and other school leaders who provide leadership, management, and vision for schools. The focus of these studies can be management perspective (e.g., transformational, instructional, distributive), overseeing and involvement in professional learning, focus and mission, and the indirect and direct effects of leaders on students learning.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 26
Number of studies: 1,093
Number of students: 1,328,243
Number of effects: 2,757
Weighted mean effect size: 0.34
Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Conference paper	Pantili, Williams, & Fortune	Principal assessment: Effective or not? A meta-analytic model	1991	Assessment ratings of principals and job performance	32	10,773	32	0.41
Conference paper	Bosker & Witziers	School effects: Problems, solutions, and a meta-analysis	1995	Principals on student achievement	21	NA	65	0.04
Dissertation	Brown	A meta-analysis of research on the influence of leadership on student outcomes	2001	Leadership on student achievement	38	NA	339	0.57
Conference paper	Wiseman	Principals' Instructional Management Activity and Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	2002	Instructional management on achievement	59	16,326	59	-0.26
Educational Administration Quarterly	Witziers, Bosker, & Kruger	Educational Leadership and Student Achievement: The Elusive Search for an Association	2003	Principals on student achievement	61	NA	377	0.02
Report	Waters, Marzano, & McNulty	School District Leadership That Works: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement	2003	District superintendents on student achievement	70	1,100,000	70	0.52
Conference paper	Waters & Marzano	School District Leadership that Works: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement	2006	District superintendents on achievement	27	NA	27	0.49
Asia Pacific Education Review	Chin	Meta-analysis of transformational school leadership effects on school outcomes in Taiwan and the USA	2007	Transformational leadership	21	6,558	11	1.12
Educational Administration Quarterly	Robinson, Lloyd, & Rowe	The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Leadership Types	2008	Principals on student achievement	22	NA	199	0.41
Book	Creemers & Kyriakides	The Dynamics of Educational Effectiveness	2008	School leadership	29	NA	29	0.07
Book	Hendriks & Steen	Results from School Leadership Effectiveness Studies (2005–2010)	2012	Leadership on outcomes	15	NA	15	0.03
Book	Scheerens & Steen	Earlier meta-analyses. In School Leadership Effects Revisited	2012	Instructional leadership on achievement	53	NA	170	0.05
Journal of Education and Literature	Tsai	A preliminary meta-analysis of teacher leadership	2015	Teacher leadership on achievement	12	3,233	3	0.31
Book	Karadag, Bektas, Cogaltay, & Yalcin	The effect of educational leadership on students' achievement	2015	Instructional leadership on achievement	57	28,964	57	0.72
Educational Administration Quarterly	Leithwood & Sun	The nature and effects of transformational school leadership a meta-analytic review of unpublished research	2012	Transformational leadership	24	2,185	20	0.18
Education Academic Monthly	Wang	Thirty-year study on the relationship between US Principal's leadership and student achievement	2010	School leadership	108	NA	108	0.22
Educational Research Review	Shen, Wu, Reeves, Zheng, Ryan, & Anderson	The association between teacher leadership and student achievement: A meta-analysis	2020	School leadership	21	NA	22	0.39
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences	Uysal & Sarier	Meta-analysis of school leadership effects on student achievement in USA and Turkey	2018	School leadership	39	NA	68	0.05
Review of Educational Research	Liebowitz & Porter	The effect of principal behaviors on student, teacher, and school outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature	2019	Principal behaviors	31	NA	346	0.12
Educational Management Administration and Leadership	Tan, Gao, & Shi	Second-order meta-analysis synthesizing the evidence on associations between school leadership and different school outcomes.	2020	School leaders on student achievement	16	NA	16	0.49
Educational Management Administration and Leadership	Tan, Dimmock, & Walker	How school leadership practices relate to student outcomes: Insights from a three-level meta-analysis. 17411432211061445.	2021	School leaders on student achievement	108	NA	493	0.28
International Journal of Cross Cultural Management	Sertel, Karadag, & Ergin-Kocaturk	Effects of leadership on performance: A cross-cultural meta-analysis.	2022	Leadership across cultures	15	7,769	15	0.70
Conference paper	Wu & Shen	A multivariate meta-analysis of the relationship between principal leadership and student achievement.	2022	School leaders on student achievement	42	NA	42	0.21
International Journal of Education and Practice	Almarshad	The Effects of Instructional, Transformation and Distributed Leadership on Students' Academic Outcomes: A Meta -Analysis	2017	Leadership on achievement	14	12,757	16	0.56
Asia Pacific Education Review	Karadag	The effect of educational leadership on students' achievement: A cross-cultural meta-analysis research on studies between 2008 and 2018	2020	School leadership	151	131,498	151	0.68
International Education Studies	Ertem	Relationship of School Leadership with School Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis Study.	2021	School leadership	7	8,180	7	0.93
TOTAL/AVERAGE						1,093	1,328,243	2,757	0.36