The impact of leadership and test anxiety on student outcome

This thesis is presented as a collection of essays on the theme of the students' performances. This research focuses on the potential factors that could affect the results of the students. In particular, it analyses the impact of the dean and anxiety on the performance of students. In the first paper, the aim is to see if they were reported in the scientific literature publications relating to the impact of the principal about the student achievement. It starts with a review of the literature on the role of the leader in a general context. Afterwards it analyses specifically the impact of the principal on school performance and student outcomes. The second paper shows the results of an empirical analysis on the impact of the principal about the student achievement. The analysis is conducted on British data from 1992 to 2006. Specifically, it analyses the indirect impact of the dean on student performance. In fact, before it checks the impact of principal on the teacher and, secondly, is analyse the effects of the teacher on student achievement. Objective of the third paper is to assess the impact of anxiety on student test performance. This study is carried out through an experiment at the University of Catanzaro. In particular, it analyses the impact of music on anxiety and finally the effect of the anxiety on student outcomes.