Townsend, Tony
International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement
Section 1. A Review of the Progress
1. 20 Years of ICSEI: The Impact of School Effectiveness and School Improvement on School Reform
Tony Townsend
2. Four Decades of Body-Surfing the Breakers of School Reform: Just Waving, Not Drowning
Hedley Beare
3. Generic and Differentiated Models of Educational Effectiveness: Implications for the Improvement of Educational Practice
Leonidas Kyriakides
4. Improving School Effectiveness: Retrospective and Prospective
John MacBeath
5. School Effectiveness Research in Latin America
Javier Murillo
6. “Effective for What; Effective for Whom?” Two Questions SESI Should Not Ignore
Ira Bogotch, Luis Mirón, Gert Biesta
7. Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda: Recent Progress and Future Prospects
Martin Thrupp, Ruth Lupton, Ceri Brown
Section 2. A World Showcase: School Effectiveness and Improvement from all Corners
8. A History of School Effectiveness and Improvement Research in the USA Focusing on the Past Quarter Century
Charles Teddlie, Sam Stringfield
9. History of the School Effectiveness and Improvement Movement in Canada over the Past 25 Years
Larry Sackney
10. School Improvement in Latin America: Innovations over 25 Years (1980–2006)
Beatrice Avalos
11. Growing Together: School Effectiveness and School Improvement in the UK
Louise Stoll, Pam Sammons
12. Educational Effectiveness and Improvement: The Development of the Field in Mainland Europe
Bert P. M. Creemers
13. School Effectiveness and Improvement in Asia: Three Waves, Nine Trends and Challenges
Yin-Cheong Cheng, Wai-ming Tam
14. School Effectiveness and Improvement in Taiwan
Hui-Ling Pan
15. School Effectiveness and Improvement in Mainland China
Daming Feng
16. The Maturing of a Movement: Tracking Research, Policy and Practice in Australia
Brian Caldwell
17. Schooling Reform: Reflections on the New Zealand Experience
Howard Fancy
18. History of the School Effectiveness and Improvement Movement in Africa
Brahm Fleisch
19. School Autonomy for School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of Israel
Ami Volansky
20. Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of Turkey
Ismail Güven
21. Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Azam Azimi
Section 3. Resources, School Effectiveness and Improvement
22. The Relationship Between Student Attainment and School Resources
Rosalind Levacic
23. Accountability, Funding and School Improvement in Canada
Charles Ungerleider, Ben Levin
24. Cost and Financing of Education and Its Impact on Coverage and Quality of Services and Efficiency and Equity in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Alain Mingat
25. Resources and School Effectiveness and Improvement
Jim Spinks
Section 4. Accountability and Diversity, School Effectiveness and Improvement
26. School Effectiveness and School Improvement (SESI): Links with the International Standards/Accountability Agenda
David Reynolds
27. Evolution of School Performance Research in the USA: From School Effectiveness to School Accountability and Back
Susan Kochan
28. Education Decentralisation and Accountability Relationships in Latin American and the Caribbean Region
Emanuela Di Gropello
29. Equity, Efficiency and the Development of South African Schools
Nick Taylor
30. Policy Perspective on School Effectiveness and Improvement at the State Level: The Case of South Australia
Steve Marshall
31. Diverse Populations and School Effectiveness and Improvement in the USA
Sue Lasky, Amanda Datnow, Sam Stringfield, Kirsten Sundell
Section 5. Changing Schools Through Strategic Leadership
32. School Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement: Democratic and Integrative Leadership
Lejf Moos, Stephan Huber
33. Leadership and School Reform Factors
Robert J. Marzano
34. The Emotional Side of School Improvement: A Leadership Perspective
Kenneth Leithwood
35. Leadership and School Effectiveness and Improvement
Halia Silins, Bill Mulford
36. Leadership Development for School Effectiveness and Improvement in East Asia
Allan Walker, Philip Hallinger, Haiyan Qian
Section 6. Changing Teachers and Classrooms for School Improvement
37. Teacher Leadership: Barriers and Supports
Joseph Murphy
38. The Continuing Professional Development of Teachers: Issues of Coherence, Cohesion and Effectiveness
Chris Day, Ruth Leitch
39. The Evolving Role of Teachers in Effective Schools
Eugene Schaffer, Roberta Devlin-Scherer, Sam Stringfield
40. Teacher Education and Professional Development for Sustainable School Effectiveness
Wai-ming Tam, Yin-Cheong Cheng
41. School and Teacher Effectiveness: Implications of Findings from Evidence-Based Research on Teaching and Teacher Quality
Ken Rowe
42. System Supports for Teacher Learning and School Improvement
Janet H. Chrispeels, Carrie A. Andrews, Margarita González
43. Curriculum Reforms and Instructional Improvement in Asia
Kerry Kennedy
Section 7. Models of School Improvement
44. Effective School Improvement — Ingredients for Success: The Results of an International Comparative Study of Best Practice Case Studies
Bert P. M. Creemers, Louise Stoll, Gerry Reezigt
45. Self-Directed Learning as a Key Approach to Effectiveness of Education: A Comparison among Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan
Magdalena Mo-Ching Mok, Yin-Cheong Cheng, Shing-On Leung, Peter Wen-Jing Shan, Phillip Moore, Kerry Kennedy
46. Coming and Going: Educational Policy and Secondary School Strategy in the Context of Poverty — Latin American Case Studies
Claudia Jacinto, Ada Freytes
47. The School Review Process: The Case of the British Schools in Latin America
David Bamford
48. Inquiry-Based Science Education and Its Impact on School Improvement: The ECBI Program in Chile
Rosa Devés, Patricia López
49. Creating New Schools Using Evidence Based Solutions — A Case Study
Jenny Lewis
50. Best Practice in Secondary School Improvement: The Case of Salisbury High School
Helen Paphitis
Afterword. Learning from the Past to Reframe the Future
51. School Effectiveness and Improvement in the Twenty-First Century: Reframing for the Future
Tony Townsend
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Keywords: EDUCATION / General EDU000000
- Author(s)
- Townsend, Tony
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402057472