Author : Pamela Sammons
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789026515491
This volume explores the influence of students' background on educational outcomes, ways of contextualising school performance, and current issues and developments in school effectiveness research. Also investigated is how the research contributes to understanding of school and classroom processes.
Author : MacBeath, John
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0335206875
This work sets out to answer questions such as, what have we learned after three decades of research into school effectiveness? What can we say with confidence about how schools improve? It reviews findings from seminal international work.
Author : John E. C. MacBeath
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415326957
The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this timely book leading thinkers from around the world offer a different vision of what schools are for. They suggest new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. They question many of the tenets of school effectiveness studies which have been so influential in shaping policy, but are essentially backward looking and premised on school structures as we have known them. Each chapter confronts some of the myths of schooling we have cherished for too long and asks us to think again and to do schools differently. Chapters include: * Democratic learning and school effectiveness * Learning democracy in an age of mangerial accountability * Democratic leadership for school improvement in challenging contexts. This book will be of particular interest to anyone involved in school improvement and effectiveness, including academics and researchers in this field of study. Headteachers and LEA advisers will also find this book a useful resource.
Author : Lawrence W. Lezotte
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1936765225
This guide helps educators implement a continuous school improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools. The authors discuss each correlate, update the knowledge base, and incorporate practical ideas from practitioners in the field. A comprehensive description of practices enables educators to build and sustain a school culture that accommodates the learning expectations and needs of all students.
Author : Bert Creemers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134525605
In this book the authors have conducted extensive research and describe what makes a successful school and how this varies in different countries. The book follows the progress of a cohort of 7-year-old children through their schools over a two-year period. It covers schools in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, and Ireland and: *draw together what it is that the most and least effective schools do in each country *pinpoints what makes 'effective teaching' across the globe *analyses which effectiveness-producing school and teaching factors appear to be the same and which are context specific *discusses how educational policies can be used to generate World Class Schools and which new blends of practice can, or should be used The existing literature based upon the comparison of the educational achievements of different countries is inadequate. This unique study provides a rich picture of the processes of the education systems of different countries which will appeal to practitioners and policy makers.
Author : Tony Townsend
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 140204805X
This book reviews of the development, implementation and practice of the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement. Seven main topics are addressed: History of the school effectiveness movement over the last 25 years; Changes in accountability and standards; Leadership in school effectiveness; Changes in teacher education; Impact of Diverse Populations; Education Funding and its Impact; and Best Practice Case Studies. The contributors are active in school effectiveness research worldwide.
Author : Tony Townsend
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2007-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402057474
This book reviews of the development, implementation and practice of the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement. Seven main topics are addressed: History of the school effectiveness movement over the last 25 years; Changes in accountability and standards; Leadership in school effectiveness; Changes in teacher education; Impact of Diverse Populations; Education Funding and its Impact; and Best Practice Case Studies. The contributors are active in school effectiveness research worldwide.
Author : Scott C. Bauer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412974054
-This text presents a step-by-step approach to problem diagnosis and school improvement. --
Author : Jaap Scheerens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9401774595
This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies and explains instances of “ineffectiveness”, such as low effect sizes of malleable conditions, for which expectations are highly strung. The book presents a systemic outlook on educational effectiveness and improvement, as it starts out from an integrated multi-level model that comprises system level, school level and instructional conditions. It offers a classification of school improvement strategies and scenarios for system level educational improvement. Above all, the analysis is very systematic, comprehensive and strongly grounded in theory. The book includes a case study analysis of various strands of improvement-oriented educational policy in the Netherlands as an illustration of some of the arguments used.
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 184714294X
This volume reviews the research in the field of school effectiveness and improvement. Many key questions are examined, such as different methods for assessing school effectiveness and variations in examination attainment in schools. It draws together the funding of the programmes of improvement being implemented in schools and provides practical discussion of effective school practice and its direct implications in schools. It is aimed at teachers, student teachers, administrators and advisors. The contributors are: Bill Badger, Louise S. Balkey, Bert P.M. Creemers, Carol T. Fitz-Gibbon, Anthony F. Heath, Daniel V. Levine, Peter Mortimore, Joseph Murphy.
