THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT OUTCOMES

This study examined the nature of the relationship between transformat ional and transactional leadership and the nature of the relationships between specified school outcomes and the constructs of transformatio nal and transactional leadership. Two forms of analysis with different underlying structural assumptions, canonical analysis and partial lea st squares path analysis, were applied to an empirically derived data set to yield two path models. It was argued that the comparison of the se two models provided evidence for the positive, relational nature of the link between transformational and transactional leadership. The i nfluence of leadership on school improvement outcomes was discussed in the light of these findings.