'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.
'Improving Quality in Education' is a major contribution to the area of school improvement, setting out a dynamic framework that will help schools col...
Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research is an important new work by some of the leading researchers in the field of Educational Effectiveness Research (EER). The book provides a state of the art snapshot of the methodology of EER now and clearly demonstrates the way it is applied in both research and evaluation. It shows how developments in the research methodology area such as the use of multilevel modelling approaches to analyse nested data have promoted the knowledge-base of educational effectiveness. But at the same time, as the authors show, the...
Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research is an important new work by some of the leading researchers in the field of ...
This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theoretical and empirically validated, can be used in both traditions. Each chapter integrates evidence from international and national studies, showing how the knowledge-base of educational effectiveness research can be used for improvement purposes. In a clear and practicable manner it outlines:
Foundations of the improvement approach
Research projects...
This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement effort...
Leonidas Kyriakides, Bert Creemers, Evi Charalambous
This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity.
This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of...