Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness

• Main Authors: Kyriakides, Leonidas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Creemers, Bert (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Charalambous, Evi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Policy Implications of Research in Education ; 8
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Assessment.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each sc...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Quality and Equity Dimensions of Educational Effectiveness: An Introduction
•  2. Different Theoretical Viewpoints on how to Promote Quality and Equity in Education
• 3. Investigating Relations between the Quality and Equity Dimensions: A Critical Review of Literature on Educational Effectiveness
• 4. Methodological Developments in Measuring Quality and Equity in Education
• 5. Measuring the Effectiveness Status of Schools in terms of Promoting Equity: Secondary Analyses of Effectiveness Studies and National Longitudinal Studies
•  6. Investigating Stability and Changes in Promoting Equity at School Level
• 7. An Experimental Study on Promoting Quality and Equity at School Level
•  8. Implications for Research, Policy and Practice: A Way Forward.