Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness: A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base

ISBN-13: 9789401774574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 389 str.

Jaap Scheerens

Opis

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.
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Spis treści

PART I: MODELLING EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVNESS AT TEACHING, SCHOOL AND SYSTEM LEVEL.- Preface.- 1. AN OVERARCHING CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.- 2. MODELING TEACHING AND LEARNING.- 3. DEFINING THE KEY FACTORS IN INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 4. MODELING SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS.- 5. SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH AND THE MEANING OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EFFECTIVENESS ENHANCING CONDITIONS.- 6. SYSTEM LEVEL CONTEXT AND EFFECTIVENESS ENHANCING POLICIES.- PART 11 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RESULTS.- 7. EFFECTS AND EFFECT SIZES IN EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH.- 8. META-ANALYSES OF SCHOOL AND INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS.- 9. SYSTEM LEVEL CONDTIONS: MISCELLANEOUS RESULTS.- 10. OTHER SYNTHESES OF EMPIRICAL FINDINGS.- PART III: THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION.- 11. THEORIES ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND INEFFECTIVENESS.- 12. RECAPITULATION AND APPLICATION.- 13. CASE STUDY: QUALITY ORIENTED EDCUATIONAL POLICY IN THE NETHERLANDS.- EPILOGUE.

Blurb

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”, like 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.