1st Edition

Making Good Schools Linking School Effectiveness and Improvement

168 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first major attempt, by leading writers and practitioners in these fields, to bring the areas together in a coherent way. Existing knowledge about the characteristics of `good' schools is outlined, together with the knowledge base about how to `make schools... Read more
Chapter 1 School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Robert Bollen; Chapter 2 The Goals of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Bert Creemers; Chapter 3 The School Effectiveness Knowledge Base, Bert Creemers; Chapter 4 The School Improvement Knowledge Base, David Hopkins, Nijs Lagerweij; Chapter 5 Merging School Effectiveness and School Improvement, David Reynolds, Louise Stoll; Chapter 6 Merging School Effectiveness and School Improvement Practical Examples, Louise Stoll, David Reynolds, Bert Creemers, David Hopkins;

Biography

In 2002 David Hopkins was appointed Head of the Government's Standards and Effectiveness Unit at the DfES, taking over from Michael Barber. In the same year, David Reynolds was awarded a CBE for his work for the Numeracy Task Force.

Making Good Schools provides a valuable resource and service to those colleagues who are responsible for moving schools forward.' - Education 3-13