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• Title:School effectiveness and improvement research, policy and practice : challenging the orthodoxy? / edited by Christopher Chapman [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Chapman, Chris, 1966-
  
• Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB2822.8 .S36 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:School improvement programs.
  Educational evaluation.
  
• Description:xiv, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and methodological traditions of the field. By challenging these orthodoxies, it provides a framework that sets a new agenda and repositions the field to meet the emerging challenges of the 21st century. It argues that traditional measures of school effectiveness are challenged as systems have attempted to adapt to a complex range of emerging agendas. New theoretical perspectives are required which consider "education" and a "broader set of outcomes". This shift requires a rethink of how effectiveness and improvement have been understood by the field, and a reconstruction by policy makers and practitioners. Attention must be given to promoting equity as well as effectiveness so that one school or student's gain no longer means another's loss. The field must develop new methodologies if inequities are to be challenged and a broader set of outcome measures are to be developed. The two questions guiding this book are: How can educational effectiveness and improvement research and practice support the development of a more equitable education service? What are the key indicators of educational effectiveness and improvement and what are the new methodologies required to facilitate a shift from "school" effectiveness and improvement to "educational" effectiveness and improvement? This book uses lenses of research, policy and practice to explore these key questions and articulate what such a repositioning may look like and how it may be achieved. It will prove invaluable for teachers, school leaders and anyone involved in policy and educational research." -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780415698948 (hardback)
  0415698944 (hardback)
  9780415698993 (paperback)
  0415698995 (paperback)
  9780203136553 (e-book)
  0203136551 (e-book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Foundations of the field
  1. Methodological issues and new trends in educational effectiveness research / Pam Sammons
  2. School improvement research and practice: a case of back to the future? / Christopher Chapman
  3. Advances in school effectiveness theory / Leonidas Kyriakides
  4. Methodological change in educational effectiveness research / Daniel Muijs
  pt. II Educational effectiveness and improvement in practice
  5. Closing the gap? A critical reflection on the impact of school improvement policies in England / Mel West
  6. Educational effectiveness and school improvement in Northern Ireland: opportunities, challenges and ironies / Anthony Kelly
  7. School effectiveness in Scotland: challenging the orthodoxy / John Macbeath
  8. School effectiveness in The Learning Country. Wales and school improvement / David Egan
  9. Educational quality, effectiveness and evaluation: perspectives from China, South America and Africa / Wen-Jung Peng
  pt. III Recent developments and future perspectives
  10. potential of continuing professional development: evaluation and `impact' / Jim O'Brien
  11. What we have learned from school improvement about taking educational reform to scale / David Hopkins
  12. Thinking and acting both locally and globally: the future for school effectiveness and school improvement / Tony Townsend
  13. Finding balance: cultivating a future / Anthony Kelly
  14. Thinking the unthinkable? The future of school effectiveness and school improvement to be realised through closer relationships with educational policies and policy makers / David Reynolds
  15. Innovation, transformation and improvement in school reform / Ben Levin.