Educational Leadership and Student Achievement: The Elusive Search for an Association

By B. Witziers, Roel Bosker, M. Krüger. 2003

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National contexts influencing principals' time use and allocation: economic development, societal culture, and educational system (2012, background): “, 1983; Horng, Klasik, & Loeb, 2009; Martinko & Gardner, 1990; Quong & Walker, 2007), surveys (Eberts & Stone, 1988; Silins & Mulford, 2010), ethnography (Wolcott, 1973), and self-report activity logs (e.”
Instructional Leadership Influence on Collective Teacher Efficacy to Improve School Achievement (2011, background): “The literature, however, remains unclear regarding the influence of specific instructional leadership functions on student achievement, especially at the secondary school level ( Braughton & Riley, 1991 ; Fidler, 1997 ; Heck, Larson, & Marcoulides, 1990 ; Ruff & Shoho, 2005 ; Witziers, Bosker, &”
Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research (2010, neutral): “Creemers and S. Stringfield (eds) Enhancing excellence, equity and efficiency: Evidence from evaluations of systems and schools in change, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 37–64. Duckworth, K. (1983) Specifying determinants of teacher and principal work, Eugene, OR: Centre for Educational ”
A synthesis of studies searching for school factors: implications for theory and research (2010, positive): “Specifically, we adopted the procedure suggested by Lamberts and Abrams (1995), which was also used in a number of meta-analyses conducted in the area of effectiveness (e.g. Scheerens & Bosker, 1997; Witziers et al., 2003).”
Personal and Social-Contextual Factors in K–12 Academic Performance: An Integrative Perspective on Student Learning (2010, background): “Principals’ influences with regard to shaping, transforming, and/or maintaining the school climate and ultimately student achievement have been recognized in various empirical studies (e.g., Leithwood & Mascall, 2008; Witzers et al., 2003).”
School Effectiveness Research: From a review of the criticism to recommendations for further development (2005, background): “For example, Witziers, Bosker, and Krüger (2003) conclude that more and more empirical studies on educational leadership are emerging that investigate the indirect effects of leadership on school performance (i.e., the indirect influence of leadership on school performance by way of teacher…”
The impact of school leadership on school level factors: Validation of a causal model (2007, background): “Witziers, Bosker, and Kruger ( 2003 ) elaborated on the work of Hallinger and Heck.”
Exploring the mediating effects of trust on principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Hong Kong primary schools (2016, background): “During the past decade, scholars have reviewed and synthesized findings from these related but distinct lines of theoretical and empirical inquiry (e.g. Hallinger, 2003; Leithwood et al., 2008; Louis et al., 2010; Mulford and Silins, 2003; Robinson et al., 2008; Witziers et al., 2003).”
Transformational School Leadership Effects on Student Achievement (2012, result): “These results are stronger than some other syntheses of direct effects school leadership research have suggested (e.g., Witziers et al., 2003) but largely in line with Robinson et al.’s (2008) findings.”
Professional communities and student achievement – a meta-analysis (2011, methodology): “Given the distinctions between the five studies, we used conceptual and methodological criteria to analyze the selected articles, a common method used for meta-analyses in the educational field (eg, Hallinger & Heck, 1998 ; Witziers, Bosker, & Kruger, 2003 ).”
Principals' leadership and teachers' motivation: Self‐determination theory analysis (2011, background): “…and teacher motivation is related in the research literature to the attempt to better understand principals’ impact on school performance (Hallinger and Heck, 1998; Leithwood and Jantzi, 2005; Leithwood and Mascall, 2008; Robinson et al., 2008; Supovitz et al., 2010; Witziers et al., 2003).”
How does leadership affect student achievement? Results from a national US survey (2010, background): “A few scholars have made sustained contributions to the question of how formal leadership from principals affects a variety of school outcomes (see Hallinger, 2003; Hallinger & Heck, 1998; Heck & Hallinger, 2009; Leithwood & Jantzi, 1999, 2000, 2005), but many others have contributed to the…”