Improving School Effectiveness - Softcover

Macbeath, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335206875 ISBN 13: 9780335206872

Publisher: Open University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book sets out to answer these questions, reviewing findings from seminal international work and from a major study conducted recently in Scotland, the Improving School Effectiveness Project. It builds up a fascinating picture of what effectiveness is, how it can be measured, and what it means for teachers, parents and pupils. It provides key quantitative data that shows just how schools can and do make a difference (but that their effects tend to be more powerful at different stages in a child's school career, and with differing effects for girls and boys, and for different school subjects). From in-depth work with twenty-four 'case study' schools we are also given much rich qualitative evidence about, for instance, the links between attitudes and attainment within a school, about the ethos of a school and its capacity for change, about the significance of a school development plan in bringing about changes, and about the role and impact of 'critical friends' in pursuing improvement in schools.

Improving School Effectiveness is an important book for everyone who is interested in valuing the effectiveness of and securing improvement in schools: for teachers, heads, inspectors, policy-makers, and students and scholars of school effectiveness and improvement.

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About the Author

Professor John MacBeath OBE is Chair of Educational Policy and Leadership and Fellow of Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this he was Director of the Quality in Education Centre at the University of Strathclyde. He has contributed to policy development in Scotland on school self-evaluation and is a member of the Government Task Force on Standards in England. International consultancies include OECD, UNESCO, the European Commission and the Bertelsmann Foundation. He is currently consultant to the Hong Kong Department of Education on School effectiveness and improvement.Professor Peter Mortimore OBE was the Director of the Institute of Education from 1994 until 2000 and the Pro-Vice Chancellor of London University for 1999/2000. He is internationally renowned for his research on school effectiveness. He is currently the president of the British Educational Research Association. Amongst the books he has co-authored are Fifteen Thousand Hours; School Matters; The Road to Improvement and, most recently, The Culture of Change.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335206875
• ISBN 13: 9780335206872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240