Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness [electronic resource] : A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base /
Scheerens, Jaap.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
PART I: MODELLING EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AT TEACHING, SCHOOL AND SYSTEM LEVEL -- Preface -- 1. An Overarching Conceptual Framework -- 2. Modelling Teaching and Learning -- 3. Defining the Key Factors in Instructional Effectiveness -- 4. Modelling 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-analysis of School and Instructional Effectiveness -- 9. System Level Conditions: 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 Educational Policy in the Netherlands -- Epilogue. .
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.
Curriculum planning.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Learning & Instruction.
International and Comparative Education.
Curriculum Studies.