研究文章
Leading to Learn: Synthesizing the Impacts of Transformational Leadership on Learning Outcomes and Student Engagement in Universities
摘要
Against the background of global higher education reform, transformational leadership has become an important driver of student learning development but there is lack of systematic integration of its impact on learning outcomes, learning commitment and student engagement as well as it fails to quantify the differentiated effects of its various dimensions so this study will fill these gaps by exploring the influencing mechanism of transformational leadership on student learning performance in university contexts based on survey data from 2847 students from 32 universities and we will use traditional statistical methods and innovative ablation experiments for empirical analysis and according to the results, transformational leadership can promote student learning outcomes and engagement positively with learning commitment acting as an important mediating variable and further ablation tests show that individualized consideration and intellectual stimulation dominate the improvement of long-term learning outcomes while idealized influence mainly promotes short-term classroom engagement so this study will clarify the heterogeneous functional values of transformational leadership sub-dimensions, complement the existing theoretical shortcomings in higher education leadership research and offer targeted practical strategies for university student-centered educational governance optimization.
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