@article{education20208122,
author={{Lahtero, T.J. and Ahtiainen, R. and Vainikainen, M.-P.},
title={Examining Distributed Leadership and School Outcomes in Finnish Compulsory School},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={8},
number={12},
pages={893--898},
year={2020},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/8/12/2},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={This paper discusses distributed leadership (DL) as educational leadership structure and its relation to school outcomes in compulsory schools. School outcomes are defined as students¡¯ learning to learn abilities. This study tests two hypotheses. H1: DL is perceived as a continuum consisting of two ends (as delegation and as situation-based interaction between leaders and subordinates). H2: conceptualization of DL as situation-based interaction positively affects the outcomes of the school. The data are leadership inquiry and students¡¯ longitudinal learning to learn follow-up data from grades 3 to 6 or grades 6 to 9. The results indicate that DL does not appear as a unidimensional continuum. Educational leadership is formed from multiple dimensions, and DL is one part of the whole; thus, H1 was incorrect. The conceptualization of DL as situation-based interaction is not statistically satisfactorily related to outcomes of the school; therefore, H2 was also incorrect. The paper concludes that results of this study point to the meaning of local education policy as a means of steering the distribution of students between schools in order to maintain the small between-school differences in student outcomes.},
doi={10.12691/education-8-12-2}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}