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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...
Alors que l'école continue de s'accommoder de la médiocrité, la République Démocratique du Congo s'est engagée, en ce début du XXIè siècle, dans une ère qui permet d'envisager l'avenir avec optimisme. Dans ce contexte, l'école congolaise est appelée à changer profondément afin de jouer son rôle dans la reconstruction des institutions politiques, dans la stimulation de la croissance et dans les corrections des inégalités. Mais comment peut-elle passer de la médiocrité à l'excellence ?
Dans la première partie de cette étude, nous avons remarqué que la non scolarisation des Enya ne s'explique pas par le manque de ressources matérielles et humaines dont disposent les établissements scolaires. Pourquoi alors la présence massive des enfants enya dans l'exercice des activités informelles ? Quelles stratégies adopter pour assurer la scolarisation de ce peuple ?
This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors analyse the various theories and strands of research within educational effectiveness, especially with respect to the comprehensive model developed by Creemers. Written by one of the worlds leading experts in the field, this book will both elucidate our current understanding of educational effectiveness and carry the discipline forward by proposing profound changes to accepted views.
This book is the result of research from over fifteen countries, asking which background and environmental factors influence achievement in mathematics and science. This research is based on data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which was conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in 1995 and 1998. In many countries researchers have started secondary analysis of the data in search for relationships between contextual factors and achievement. In these analyses two different approaches can be distinguished, which can be characterised by the metaphors of ‘fishing’ and ‘hunting’. In the ‘fishing’ approach, researchers begin with an open mind, considering all possible context variables as potentially influential. Applying analysis techniques such as regression analysis, Lisrel, PLS, HLM, and MLN, they then identify important factors within their countries or across a number of countries. In the ‘hunting’ approach, researchers hypothesise certain context variables and trace the effect of these variables on mathematics and/or science achievement.
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