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. Also investigated is how the research contributes to understanding of school and classroom processes.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The Impact of Intake: Measuring School Effectiveness
Chapter 1: The Influence of Background on Educational Outcomes
Chapter 2: Contextualizing School Performance
Chapter 3: Issues in school Effectiveness Research
Chapter 4: Differential School Effectiveness
Chapter 5: Continuity of School Effects
Part 2: Understanding School Effectiveness
Chapter 6: The Question of Education Quality
Chapter 7: Effective Teaching – Findings from the ‘School Matters’ Research
Chapter 8: Key Characteristics of Effective Schools
Chapter 9: Theory and school Effectiveness Research
Part 3: Using School Effectiveness Research: Implications for Raising Standards and School Improvement
Chapter 10: The Practitioners’ Perspective
Chapter 11: Using Value Added Research
Chapter 12: Evaluating School Improvement
Chapter 13: Beyond the Millennium: Future Diretions for School Effectiveness Research
References
Subject index
Biography
Pamela Sammons
