This edited volume explores questions about 'what works', how, for
whom, when, and why in education, and considers how and to what
extent such knowledge can be understood and extended across
countries and different educational systems. The book starts by
presenting an overview of the history of educational effectiveness
research and offers examples of current theories of educational
effectiveness. Next, it provides exemplars of effectiveness studies
that report on educational systems, policies, and practices from
across six continents. These studies vary in their research methods
and outcomes, illustrating a field of research that is conscious of
its origins, its agenda, and its ambition to understand and improve
the functioning of schools, networks, and education systems around
the world. The book brings these threads together within the final
chapter and uses them to signpost directions for future research.
'International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research
is an excellent and timely addition to the educational
effectiveness literature. It offers a rigorous and insightful range
of international perspectives that will be of interest to
researchers, policy makers and students of the field.' - Professor
Christopher Chapman, University of Glasgow, UK &
President-Elect of the International Congress for School
Effectiveness and Improvement 'This important new volume brings up
to date the contributions of educational effectiveness research to
the development of policy and practice in the field over the last
50 years. Drawing together the ideas of many of the major
researchers in the field, it provides a comprehensive analysis of
these earlier contributions, leading to critical commentaries that
point to areas for future attention. The editors make use of
expertise from a range of disciplines to strengthen the themes that
are addressed. Most importantly, the book emphasises the need to
pay greater attention to the challenge of equity - arguably the
most significant challenge facing education systems
internationally. In this respect, a particular strength of the book
is the accounts provided from many different parts of the world.
These underline the importance of context, a factor often
previously overlooked in this field of research. Given all of this,
I have no doubt that International Perspectives in Educational
Effectiveness Research will become a major source for
practitioners, policy-makers and researchers.' - Professor Mel
Ainscow, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Manchester
& Professor of Education, University of Glasgow, UK
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