Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base /

• Main Author: Scheerens, Jaap (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Learning & Instruction.; International and Comparative Education.; Curriculum Studies.

This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies and explains instances of “ineffectiveness”, like low effect sizes of malleable conditions, for which...