A Study on the Influencing Factors of Principals’ Informatization Leadership in the Context of Educational Digitalization Transformation

Abstract

School governance in the digital era calls for comprehensive improvement of principals' digital governance skills and collaborative innovation capabilities. Principals' leadership in information-based teaching is a key influence on the development of schools' information technology. In order to explore the influencing factors of principals' information-based teaching leadership under the background of digitalization transformation and to construct a model of influencing factors of principals' information-based teaching leadership, this study collected data from 260 primary and secondary school principals through a questionnaire survey based on the technology acceptance and integration model, and conducted empirical tests through a structural equation model. The study found that performance expectations, enabling conditions, and individual innovation have a positive and significant impact on principals' information-based teaching leadership. Therefore, this study puts forward suggestions for optimizing principals’ information-based teaching leadership from the aspects of government-led improvement of principal training resources and systems, principals’ professional development, and the “digitization” of principals’ education and training programs. This study provides guidance for the cultivation of principals’ information-based teaching leadership in the era of educational digitalization, and offers some insights into related research.