Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness: A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base

By Jaap Scheerens

Book Overview

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", such as low effect sizes of malleable conditions, for which expectations are highly strung. The book presents a systemic outlook on educational effectiveness and improvement, as it starts out from an integrated multi-level model that comprises system level, school level and instructional conditions. It offers a classification of school improvement strategies and scenarios for system level educational improvement. Above all, the analysis is very systematic, comprehensive and strongly grounded in theory. The book includes a case study analysis of various strands of improvement-oriented educational policy in the Netherlands as an illustration of some of the arguments used.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401777152
• ISBN13: 9789401777155
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 389 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"