Abstract
PurposeThis paper is intended to give an overview of research on the impact of leadership on student outcomes, the main leadership activities related to these outcomes, and strengths and weaknesses in the research base.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is a literature review of key papers addressing the relationship between leadership and student outcomes. Key authors and journals in the field were consulted.FindingsLeadership has a significant indirect impact on student outcomes, though the role of contingency and school context in shaping leadership is important. There is some evidence for impact of transformational, distributed and instructional leadership. The evidence base for an impact of leadership development is limited, however. The research base suffers from significant weaknesses, such as dualism, over‐prescriptivity, lack of international research, limited methodologies, and poor measurement.Originality/valueThis paper provides a comprehensive overview of the evidence and points to ways in which research in the field can be improved to develop one's knowledge base further.
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