School Leadership and Its Impact on Student Achievement: The Mediating Role of School Climate and Teacher Job Satisfaction.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of teacher job satisfaction and school climate in mediating the relative effects of principals' instructional and transformational leadership practices on student outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Guided by strong evidence from theories on school leadership and work psychology, the authors hypothesized relations among dimensions of principals' instructional and transformational leadership behaviors, teachers' perception of the school climate (social and affective, and physical environment) their job satisfaction and student achievement. The benefits of the principal's leadership behaviors for student achievement are primarily hypothesized as indirect, with either a weak or statistically non significant direct positive effect on student outcomes. Path modeling was applied to validate a mediated effects model using cross sectional survey data (306 principals, 1,539 teachers) obtained from 306 secondary schools in the two Indian metropolitan c.