Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness

A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-94-017-7715-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 389 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 6146 g

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scheerens, Jaap

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Schulpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.