Huang Wu

Biographic Data

ID5740765
NAMEHuang Wu
GIVEN NAMESHuang
FAMILY NAMEWu
SIGNATUREWU H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City
ORCID0000-0002-7423-8447
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • How principals communicate expectations for raising academic performance and closing the achievement gap

    Huang Wu, Eric M CamburnARTICLEJournal of Educational…2026

    Purpose This study investigates how teachers perceive their principals' communication of expectations, and how these perceptions differ based on teacher, principal and school characteristics, and the extent to which principals' communication of expectations is associated with student achievement. Design/methodology/approach This study leverages a variety of statistical approaches including multilevel confirmatory factor analysis, multiple regress…

  • Principal leadership, school processes, and student achievement

    Open AccessHuang Wu, Sijia Zhang et al.ARTICLEEducational Management…2026

    This study aims to: (a) examine the direct and indirect relationships between principal leadership and student achievement through school processes in Hong Kong and Macau, and (b) investigate how school contexts as conditions for leadership mechanisms linking principal leadership to student achievement. Using a novel approach—multigroup multilevel structural equation modeling—and drawing on PISA 2022 data, we find that school context not only inf…

  • School Leadership, Parental Involvement, and Student Achievement

    Open AccessSijia Zhang, Huang WuARTICLEEducation Sciences2025

    Purpose: This study adopted a quantitative design to evaluate a new latent construct, “Parental Academic Commitment (PAC)”, that was composed of parental involvement (PARINVOL) and parents’ expectations of their children’s academic success (PAREXPT). Furthermore, we also explored how different perceptions of school leadership would impact parental academic commitment and student learning. More specifically, we compared how principal-perceived sch…

  • The Relationship Between Principal Leadership and Student Achievement

    Open AccessJianping Shen, Huang WuARTICLEEducational Administration…2025

    Principal leadership has been widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for school improvement and student learning. This article presents a multivariate meta-analysis of 42 empirical studies, published between 2000 and 2020, that examined the effects of principal leadership on student achievement in the United States. The focus is on the conceptual models and methodological approaches used to examine these effects. Our study reveals three major fin…

  • A review of research on achievement gap, 1934 to 2023

    Huang Wu, Jianping ShenARTICLEResearch Papers in Education2025References: 24

  • Effects of the “High Impact Leadership for School Renewal” Project on Principal Leadership, School Leadership, and Student Achievement

    Open AccessXin Ma, Jianping Shen et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    In this study, we designed an educational experiment to evaluate the High Impact Leadership for School Renewal project’s impact on principal leadership, school leadership, and student achievement. Principals in the experimental group reported statistically significantly greater improvement in principal leadership than their counterparts in the control group (Hedge’s g of 0.73), but teachers in the experimental and control groups showed no differe…

  • The relationship between reciprocal school-to-school collaboration and student academic achievement

    Open AccessHuang Wu, Jianping Shen et al.ARTICLEEducational Management…2024

    Despite the appeal of promoting and forming collaborative relationships between schools, empirical evidence for an association between school-to-school collaboration and school outcomes is still somewhat lacking. This study utilized data from 76 schools nested within 56 districts in the United States to examine the association between a school's reciprocal relationships and school outcomes by employing social network analysis and hierarchical lin…

  • The relationship between growth in principal leadership and growth in school performance

    Open AccessJianping Shen, Xin Ma et al.ARTICLEStudies In Educational Evaluation2021

  • Closing Achievement Gaps

    Open AccessHuang Wu, Jianping Shen et al.ARTICLEEducation and Urban Society2021Cited by: 3References: 66

    The purpose of this study was to examine the role of school background and school process in closing achievement gaps between White and non-White students in science. To answer the research questions, a series of two-level hierarchical linear models (HLM) was performed on the fourth-grade U.S. portion of the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Results indicate that (a) the science achievement gap between White…

  • The association between teacher leadership and student achievement

    Open AccessJianping Shen, Huang Wu et al.ARTICLEEducational Research Review2020

  • Examining the effect of principal leadership on student science achievement

    Huang Wu, Jianping Shen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Science…2020

    The goal of this study was to estimate the relationships among principal leadership, teacher-related factors (e.g. job satisfaction, self-efficacy of teaching, and collaboration), and student achievement in science. With the United States sample of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 data, we used a series of two-level structural equation models to examine the direct, indirect, and moderated effect of principal leadership. …

  • The effects of mobile phone use on academic performance

    Open AccessAaron W Kates, Huang Wu et al.ARTICLEComputers & Education2018