Books in the Contexts of Learning series

This is a collection of 19 articles charting developments in school effectiveness research, both on the evaluative and reflective side, and the emergence from it of pro-active school improvement ideas and initiatives.

Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. This volume presents a realistic picture of what needs to be done if schools are to be made better.

In an international comparative research project, current school leader training and development programmes in 15 countries of Europe, Asia, Australia and North America are analysed, compared and discussed.

Combining the most effective school improvement projects from around the world within one comprehensive text, this book presents an overview of detailed analyses of a wide variety of international initiatives that have given achievable results.

Focusing on issues including parental engagement and the uses and abuses of homework, this vital international snapshot of current research provides a research synthesis on the impact of family-school-community partnerships on student outcomes.

Detailing practices that have proved effective alongside relevant case examples, this book analyses contributions from diverse countries facing common challenges, showing the way ahead for Family-School-Community Relations.

Tracing developments in this arena as they evolved since 1980, this book is designed as one part primer on key issues one part description of global leadership development practices and one part assessment of future trends.

This volume includes a thorough conceptualization of school feedback as a performance-enhancing mechanism, and the prerequisites for utilizing this information in schools. It provides a review of the research on the impact of feeding back performance information to individuals and to organizations.

This text aims to connect school organization theory with the school effectiveness knowledge base. Each chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the knowledge base on the central theme and addresses the question of what is known about the subject as a school effectiveness-enhancing condition.

Detailing practices that have proved effective alongside relevant case examples, this book analyses contributions from diverse countries facing common challenges, showing the way ahead for Family-School-Community Relations.

Presents homework from several perspectives, including its political and cultural contexts aspects of parental involvement and parent-child relationships school contexts and practices observable impacts. This book considers how both teachers and parents can ensure a balance between the child's school life and his or her overall development.

The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement. This book presents some of the most effective school improvement projects from around the world.

Aims to brings together the thinking and research of two investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. This work analyses the various theories and strands of research within educational effectiveness, especially with respect to the comprehensive model developed by Creemers. It elucidates our understanding of educational effectiveness.

This volume includes a thorough conceptualization of school feedback as a performance-enhancing mechanism, and the prerequisites for utilizing this information in schools.

"Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring" presents methodological development in educational measurement, monitoring on the basis of indicator systems, and review-type approaches such as inspection and school self-evaluation.

Grouped into four sections, this book covers various aspects of school effectiveness by looking at: laying the foundations of the effective school; pushing the boundaries; trying to influence policy and practice; and contemporary solutions. It gives an overview of how school effectiveness is both perceived and changing.

A presentation of research results from an international study into the variety of factors, which may influence achievement in mathematics or science.

Combining the most effective school improvement projects from around the world within one comprehensive text, this book presents an overview of detailed analyses of a wide variety of international initiatives that have given achievable results.

A story of sustained teacher development-focused school improvement activity in East Africa from 1985 to 2000. The core of the book consists of six case study evaluations of school and district-wide school improvement projects (SIPs) supported by the Aga Khan Foundation.