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Educational effectiveness research (EER): a state-of-the-art review

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posted on 2023-05-18, 07:41 authored by Reynolds, D, Sammons, P, De Fraine, B, Van Damme, J, Anthony TownsendAnthony Townsend, Teddie, C, Stringfield, S
Research and scholarship into educational effectiveness research (EER) is comprehensively reviewed from the UK, The Netherlands, the US, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and other societies, dating from the field’s origins in the 1970s. Issues include its history, methodological and theoretical advances, scientific properties of school effects, processes at school and classroom level behind these effects, the somewhat limited translation of findings into policy and practice across the world, and future directions for research and practice in EER and for all of the discipline more generally. Future research needs are argued to be a further concentration upon teaching/teachers, more longitudinal studies, more work on possible context specificity, exploration of the cross-level transactions between schools and their teachers/classrooms, the adoption of “efficiency” as well as “effectiveness” as outcome measures, and a renewed focus upon the education of the disadvantaged, the original focus of our discipline when it began.

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Publication title

School Effectiveness and School Improvement: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice

Volume

25

Pagination

197-230

ISSN

0924-3453

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Swets Zeitlinger Publishers

Place of publication

P O Box 825, Lisse, Netherlands, 2160 Sz

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© 2014 Taylor & Francis

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  • Restricted

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