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School Effectiveness and School Improvement: Sustaining Links
Bert P. M. Creemers,G.J. Reezigt +1 more
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In this article, stronger links between effectiveness and improvement are advocated, which can be achieved by better guided processes of application and reconstruction of knowledge during effectiveness research and improvement, illustrated by some successful projects which have started recently.Abstract:
Ideally, school effectiveness research and school improvement might have a relationship with a surplus value for both. In reality, this relationship is often troublesome. Some problems can be attributed to the intrinsic differences between effectiveness and improvement, such as different missions. However, an analysis of the current situation in effectiveness and improvement shows that there are many possibilities at all stages of research studies and improvement projects for a more fruitful relationship. In this article, stronger links between effectiveness and improvement are advocated. Such links can be achieved by better‐guided processes of application and reconstruction of knowledge during effectiveness research and improvement. These processes, illustrated by some successful projects which have started recently, are described under the heading of sustained interactivity.read more
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The Multilevel Latent Covariate Model: A New, More Reliable Approach to Group-Level Effects in Contextual Studies.
Oliver Lüdtke,Herbert W. Marsh,Alexander Robitzsch,Ulrich Trautwein,Tihomir Asparouhov,Bengt Muthén +5 more
TL;DR: A new multilevel latent covariate (MLC) approach is introduced that corrects for unreliability at L2 and results in unbiased estimates of L2 constructs under appropriate conditions and suggests when researchers should most appropriately use one, the other, or a combination of both approaches.
Successful School Leadership: What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning
TL;DR: In this article, a wide-ranging review of theory and evidence about the nature, causes and consequences for schools and students of successful school leadership is presented, with the aim of providing guidance to those already in leadership positions and those with responsibilities for the development of leaders.
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School reform and transitions in teacher professionalism and identity
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Testing hypotheses on specific environmental causal effects on behavior
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Distributed Leadership in Schools: The Case of Elementary Schools Adopting Comprehensive School Reform Models:
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of distributed leadership in the context of elementary schools' adoption of comprehensive school reforms (CSR) was conducted, and the authors hypothesized that such programs activate those roles by defining expectations for and socializing (e.g., through professional development) role incumbents.
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