Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2022, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 20-29.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2022.03.003

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Research on the Mechanism of Principal Curriculum Leadership Components in Primary and Secondary Schools: An Empirical Study Based on PLS-SEM

Lv Lijie, Ding Yiran   

  1. Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
  • Online:2022-03-01 Published:2022-03-01

Abstract:

Principal curriculum leadership is an important guarantee for school curriculum development, teachers’ professional development and students’ quality improvement. Based on the concept interpretation and dimension decomposition of principal's curriculum leadership, this study discusses the constituent elements and mechanism of principal curriculum leadership. Taking principals of primary and secondary schools as the research objects, descriptive statistics and PLS-SEM were used to analyze the status quo and model test, respectively, to explore the relationship between principals’ curriculum awareness and curriculum leadership effectiveness. The results show that principals of primary and secondary schools have strong ability of curriculum planning and management, but weak ability of curriculum awareness and curriculum assessment. Principals’ curriculum management ability and curriculum assessment ability have a direct impact on curriculum leadership effectiveness, while principals’ curriculum awareness has a positive impact on curriculum leadership effectiveness through six mediation pathways (including four chain mediation roles). Based on the above research results, suggestions are put forward to pay attention to the scientific and accurate training of principals’ curriculum leadership, strengthen the empirical research on the emotional and intellectual elements of principals’ curriculum leadership, and build a narration-based mechanism for improving principals’ curriculum leadership.

Key words: principal curriculum leadership, curriculum awareness, effectiveness of curriculum leadership, PLS-SEM, chain mediation