Improving Quality in Education: Dynamic Approaches to School Improvement

ISBN-13: 9780415548731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 306 str.

Bert Creemers;Leonidas Kyriakides

Opis

'Improving Quality in Education' is a major contribution to the area of school improvement, setting out a dynamic framework that will help schools collect data, evaluate themselves, decide on priorities for improvement and develop action plans.

Recenzje

"Improving Quality in Education-Dynamic Approaches to School Improvement is a blend of both theory and empirically tested research studies and will be an interesting read for policy makers, educators, researchers and school managers. Needless to mention, this is a must read for all those who are interested in bringing change to the school system." - Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, V.Sucharita

Spis treści

Part A Foundations of the Improvement Approach  1. Developments in school improvement: the value of a theory-driven approach  2. Establish links between educational effectiveness research and school improvement: the contribution of the dynamic model  3. The dynamic approach to school improvement  Part B Research Projects on the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement  4. Establishing School Self Evaluation mechanisms to improve the quality of education  5. Facing and preventing bullying through improving the school learning environment  6. Schools establishing school self evaluation mechanisms for improvement purposes: Case studies of two primary schools in Slovenia  7. Using DASI to improve teacher effectiveness: a group randomisation study  8. Development of DASI: studies on teacher effectiveness in different educational settings  Part C Translating the approach into action: guidelines and instruments  9. Using DASI to establish mechanisms for school self-evaluation for improvement purposes  10. Instruments for measuring quality of teaching and school level factors  11. The design of actions and strategies for improvement, their implementation and evaluation  Part D Further developments of the dynamic approach to school improvement  12. Reflections on the viability of the approach