Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness A Critical Review of t
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 eff
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Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness
Jaap Scheerens
Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
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Jaap Scheerens Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands
ISBN 978-94-017-7457-4 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7459-8
ISBN 978-94-017-7459-8
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Preface
In a set of reviews on the state of the art of educational effectiveness research in the Journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement (June 2014), the field is described as “in good shape” (Reynolds et al. 2014, 196). In my own commentary of the reviews this positive message was partly confirmed: there is strong consensus on the set of malleable conditions associated with good student performance. Yet, I thought that some critical comments were warranted as well: for most of the identified and generally supported malleable factors, quantitative meta-analyses show considerable differences in the estimate of average effect sizes, and the progress in the direction of a more model- and theory-driven approach is quite slow (Scheerens 2014). In this book the challenges presented by the cited review studies are taken up by means of more detailed and explicit modelling and an extensive review of the literature that spans four decades of research (Part I), a presentation and review of quantitative meta-analyses (Part II) and further reflection on theoretical foundations as well as analyses of practical application of the empirical results (Part III). The work is based on research carried out over a period of abou
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