EdD Research: School Leadership's Impact on Math Progress

This research proposal, submitted for a Doctorate in Education (EdD), investigates the crucial relationship between effective school leadership and student progress in mathematics. The study aims to analyze how different leadership practices influence student performance, exploring the concept of school leadership, evaluating its impact on math achievement, identifying associated challenges, and formulating effective strategies. The methodology includes an interpretivist research philosophy and a deductive approach, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods through questionnaires and interviews. The research will use random sampling to gather data from students. The study's strengths include focusing on a key issue and using primary data sources, while weaknesses include potential reliability issues with secondary sources and limited resources. The research anticipates new outcomes, including an analysis of leadership's role in supporting math progress and suggesting improved leadership strategies to facilitate student learning of complex mathematical concepts.

Research Proposal
“To analyze the way in which effective school
leadership impacts student’s progress in
mathematics.”
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Table of Contents
Background and statement of the problem......................................................................................2
Literature review:.............................................................................................................................3
Analyze the concept of school leadership....................................................................................3
The way in which leadership affects student progress in mathematics.......................................4
Importance of conducting the research........................................................................................4
Methodology....................................................................................................................................5
Participants.......................................................................................................................................6
Methods............................................................................................................................................6
Strengths and weaknesses of the study............................................................................................6
Innovative and new research outcomes...........................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Background and statement of the problem
The main idea of the present research report is based on analyzing the way there is
relationship between effective school leadership and contribution towards performance of
students in their academic studies. Instructional leadership is playing a very crucial role in
schools that is helping in establishment of relationship at various levels (Steele, Steiner and
Hamilton, 2021). School organizations are working towards supporting improvement in students
overall performance by building up of effective leadership practices. In some situations there are
difficulties in laying down effective leadership on part of teachers and that leads to lower
performance of students. Present research is based on analyze the way different leadership
practices and contributes towards higher student performance in mathematics.
Problem statement
The student is willing to perform the present research work by investigation into the
problem and the issue that is identified. The overall planning approach is based on using of
different qualitative and quantitative research methods for the purpose of reaching to relevant
conclusions (Hwang, Wang and Lai, 2021). The overall eight aims and objectives have to be
achieved in order to develop solutions for the issues that are being identified in the course of
research work. For this purpose there will be use of both primary and secondary form of
information so that overall issue can be investigated identified and further resolved.
Research aim:
“To analyze the way in which effective school leadership impacts student’s progress in
mathematics.”
Research objectives:
 To analyze the concept of school leadership
 To evaluate the way in which leadership affects student progress in mathematics
 To analyze the challenges associated with effective school leadership process.
 To formulate suitable strategies that arises in case of effective school leadership practices
Research question:
 What is the basic concept of concept of school leadership?
 What are different ways in which leadership can posses a impact on student progress in
mathematics?

 What can be some of the challenges associated with effective school leadership process?
 Formulate suitable strategies that can help in effective leadership practices and students
progress in mathematics?
Literature review:
Analyze the concept of school leadership
Effective student leadership plays a very crucial role in the process of improves learning.
After several decades of renewal efforts leadership has become one of the important aspects in
promoting children’s learning. Effective leadership is playing a very crucial part in development
of students with respect to various difficulties that are faced in the process of academic. The
overall leadership approach is very helpful in analyzing the teaching related factors that has an
impact on student learning (Cai and Hwang, 2021). There are different ways in which leadership
is affecting the learning process of students and helping them in achievement of higher growth.
High quality leaders are working towards setting direction that helps students in having a clear
course of understanding establishment of higher expectations and using of data to track the
performance and progress. Leaders are also helping in development of students by providing
them training and required support in aspects which they are feeling weak. Apart from this
effective student leadership ensures that there is entire range of incentives and conditions that are
supporting the process of learning and teaching together. Successful or effective leadership is
very critical for the purpose of having school reforms. It helps students in building up a proper
knowledge base for further education that is to be imported by teachers. Math is a typical subject
that involves quite typical numerical calculations and dealing with quantitative data. Effective
school leadership is a key aspect that can help in development of classroom instructions school
related factors that can contribute towards student learning (Stronge and Xu, 2021). It is also
helping in having proper formal administrative rules that can help students in proper actions
towards learning. There are different forms of leadership styles that can be used which include
instructional, democratic, strategic, transformational or participated depending upon specific
circumstances. It can be said that democratic is one of the most suitable and desirable form of
leadership styles on part of students. It helps them in setting up of defensible directions and
influencing students in moving towards right direction.

The way in which leadership affects student progress in mathematics
As per views of wolking (2017), there are some of the issues that are faced in educational
leadership. There can be challenges that may arise because of groups values of principles that is
not reflected as per reality of choices. Sometimes leaders may face issues of no proper alignment
of group with its system values structure and actions. For which there is need to develop a
leadership strategy that can help in implementation of plans for a system wise personalized
learning experiences (Fauth, and et. al., 2021). Another challenge that is faced by school leaders
is the leadership development challenges that may arise because there are no proper capabilities
to deal with the changing situation requirement. Transition challenge may also arise because
there can be present value said ships that is required to adapt towards new set of values for
creation of great progress. This type of challenge usually arise for school leaders when there is
no proper growth mindset and there can be conventional issues that arise for the purpose of
improving future performance level. Maintenance challenge also arises because there is no
proper adjustment to the changing standards. A leadership has to be focus on preserving
essentials and performance at higher levels to deal with the threats. So there is need to focus on
coherent instructional vision by the school leaders so that they are able to adjust to changing
landscape (Ma and Marion, 2021).
Importance of conducting the research
This research work will help in analyzing the growth in mathematics as a complex subject.
Students require extra efforts to understand the formulas and numerical equations that are part of
the subject. For this purpose the overall contribution made by effective school leadership and
student progress is going to help in effective learning process.
Contribution of research:
The present research will be contributing towards analyzing the role played by an effective
leadership towards student development. It is one of the most effective tools that will help in
understanding the relation between high performing students and role of leadership. There are
many existing studies and researches that are already dealing with the present lid in but this
research is going to contribute towards analyzing the challenges that are associated with effective
school leadership (Lee, Ryoo and Walker, 2021). This research is also going to contribute

towards formulation of suitable strategies that arise in case of developing effective school
leaders.
Methodology
Research philosophy: It is regarded as the set of actions that a part of present research
report and will help in the process of collection analysis and interpretation of data. There are two
types of research philosophies that are positivism and interpretivism. In present research report
there will be use of interpretivism philosophy that can help in interpretation of quantitative form
of information.
Research approach: It is regarded as the method that is to be used in research there are
two types of research approaches deductive approach and inductive approach. In the present
research report there will be use of deductive approach for the purpose of using quantitative form
of information. Inductive approach will also be used in order to analyze qualitative form of
information (Forman, Stosich and Bocala, 2021).
Research strategy: it is regarded as a process of collecting data by application of various
methods that may be interviews, experimental research and survey. In present research there will
be use of interview and questionnaires as different research strategies to be applied for the
purpose of collecting information.
Research choice: There is need to select particular research method that can be
qualitative or quantitative for the purpose of assisting researcher in gathering numerical and
theoretical aspects of information. In the research report investigative will be using both
qualitative and quantitative form of research methods (Steele, Steiner and Hamilton, 2021).
Qualitative form of method will help in dealing with non numerical information and quantitative
is going to help in analyzing the numerical form of information.
Data collection: There are different types of data collection methods at into primary
method and secondary method.

Primary method: It includes first-hand information that has to be collected by the
researcher for the purpose of having raw and more authentic sources of information. In present
research there will be use of questionnaire, focus groups and interview as primary sources of
information that will be used to collect information from identified sources of respondent.
Secondary method: In secondary sources there will be use of already existing sources of
information for the purpose of collecting data that already exists. In this investigator will be
using different online sources and books journal articles that are already available for the
purpose of forming a literature review (Printy and Liu, 2021).
Participants
Sampling: sampling is a procedure that is defined where a specific sample is selected
from the whole population for the purpose of conducting the study. There are two different types
of sampling methods that include probabilistic and non probability method. In the present
research there will be use of random sampling where there is no specific criteria based on which
specific set of respondents are selected. There is random selection of total number of respondents
that are required for the purpose of completing the research. Participants will be students who are
presently studying and there view pots will be used for the purpose of reaching to relevant
conclusions.
Methods
Questionnaire: In the present research work there will be use of questionnaire for the purpose of
reaching to relevant conclusion with respect to research work. In this questionnaire will be used
to make assessment of the view points of respondents.
Strengths and weaknesses of the study
Strength: the overall strength of the present research work is that it is based on analyzing
the present key issue that is faced by students across various schools. It is going to help in
understanding the concept of school leadership and evaluation of the way in which leadership is
going to affect the future student progress. The use of primary sources of method is very helpful
in having high amount of reliability and authenticity of information (Wall, 2021).

There is use of secondary sources of information that may sometimes lead to lack of
reliability by many researchers. The viewpoints of many authors may change with time and the
research can get affected because of the dynamic external environment. So there is lack of
consistency that is weakness of the research for other availability of limited resources may also
affect the quality of present research report.
Innovative and new research outcomes
The main innovative and new research outcome of current investigation comprises of the
fact that it would ensure analysis of role of leadership in supporting progress in mathematic.
Beside this, an innovative thinking about some more effective ways of leadership would also be
facilitated by current study which would ensure a better and more effective way of guiding and
teaching students about complex mathematic concept in a much easier way. Beside this, an
analysis of the issues that are faced in educational leadership along with focus on preserving
essentials and performance at higher levels to deal with the threats is also facilitated and
provided by current study.

References
Books and journal
Cai, J. and Hwang, S., 2021. Teachers as redesigners of curriculum to teach mathematics through
problem posing: conceptualization and initial findings of a problem-posing
project. ZDM–Mathematics Education, pp.1-14.
Fauth, B., and et. al., 2021. Does what you get depend on who you are with? Effects of student
composition on teaching quality. Learning and Instruction, 71, p.101355.
Forman, M.L., Stosich, E.L. and Bocala, C., 2021. The internal coherence framework: Creating
the conditions for continuous improvement in schools. Harvard Education Press.
Hwang, G.J., Wang, S.Y. and Lai, C.L., 2021. Effects of a social regulation-based online
learning framework on students’ learning achievements and behaviors in
mathematics. Computers & Education, 160, p.104031.
Lee, M.S., Ryoo, J.H. and Walker, A., 2021. School Principals’ Time Use for Interaction with
Individual Students: Macro Contexts, Organizational Conditions, and Student
Outcomes. American Journal of Education, 127(2), pp.000-000.
Ma, X. and Marion, R., 2021. Exploring how instructional leadership affects teacher efficacy: A
multilevel analysis. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 49(1),
pp.188-207.
Printy, S. and Liu, Y., 2021. Distributed leadership globally: The interactive nature of principal
and teacher leadership in 32 countries. Educational administration quarterly, 57(2),
pp.290-325.
Steele, J.L., Steiner, E.D. and Hamilton, L.S., 2021. Priming the leadership pipeline: School
performance and climate under an urban school leadership residency
program. Educational Administration Quarterly, 57(2), pp.221-256.
Stronge, J.H. and Xu, X., 2021. Qualities of effective principals. ASCD.
Wall, C.R.G., 2021. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-
informed approach to elementary education. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment &
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Online
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