What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and examines international research evidence and reform initiatives with particular emphasis on North America, UK, Australasia and the Third World. It offers a synopsis of the Third World School Effects Research (SER). The authors claim that the challenges now facing educational leaders is to find a balance between SER and the other school movements and to ask more demanding questions of our educational systems.
In conclusion, the handbook sets out a new agenda for future educational effectiveness research. This handbook is an essential resource for those interested in the effectiveness of educational systems, organisations and classrooms.
Report of the Cooperative Research Project on “Leading Victoria's Schools of the Future,” Directorate of School Education, Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals, Victorian Primary Principals Association, The University of ...
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.
This book reviews of the development, implementation and practice of the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement.
... Wurst S (2004) 'Dropping out,' drifting off, being excluded: Becoming somebody without school. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Smyth J, McInerney P (2006) 'Living on the edge': A case study of school reform working for disadvantaged ...
The two volumes of the second edition of the International Handbook of Educational Change comprise a totally new, and updated collection of the most critical and cutting-edge ideas in educational change.
... Schools Les Bell Managing Evaluation in Education Kath Aspinwall, Tim Simkins, John F. Wilkinson and John McAuley Education for the Twenty-First Century Hedley Beare and Richard Slaughter Parents and Schools Customers, Managers.
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.
This handbook is the first of its kind to provide a general and comprehensive overview of virtually every aspect of International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA).
The book's 43 chapters, grouped in 10 sections, provide detailed accounts of major components of the educational evaluation enterprise. Together, they provide a panoramic view of an evolving field.