Overview
- Considers ineffectiveness to deepen understanding of system, school and classroom level effectiveness models
- Presents a review of five decades of educational effectiveness research
- Is unprecedented in connecting theory and empirical research results in educational effectiveness
- Is a source book of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modelling Educational Effectiveness at Teaching, School and System Level
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Interpretation and Practical Application
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Back Matter
Keywords
- teaching effectiveness
- school effectiveness
- system effectiveness
- education as a hierarchical system
- theories on educational effectiveness
- classroom ecology
- structure and independence in teaching
- schools as high reliability organizations
- participatory leadership
- pro-active, interactive and retro-active teaching strategies
- constructivist oriented teaching
- Comprehensive School Reform
- opportunity to learn
- learning and instruction
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness
Book Subtitle: A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
Authors: Jaap Scheerens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7459-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7457-4Published: 01 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7715-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7459-8Published: 20 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 389
Number of Illustrations: 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction, International and Comparative Education, Curriculum Studies