Contexts of Learning
About the Book Series
Children are educated within many different contexts - in their families, schools, communities and nations. Historically, book series have often looked at only one of these influences and have seen development in isolation from the others.
The purposes of the Contexts of Learning book series is to promote understanding of, and high quality interventions within, all these contexts that affect children. The series exhibits a broad range of topics, ranging from conventional studies of schools as learning environments to contemporary issues in mathematics education, and reflects the variety of perspectives that exist about these influences on children.
The series also includes a variety of genres - it contains multi-authored books, some single author volumes and some edited volumes in which researchers put together material which reflects their intellectual trajectory through their careers.
Although there is variation in the themes addressed and the particular genre, all volumes are encouraged to have an inclusive, international reach in their concerns and their source material.
Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring: A Systematic Approach
1st Edition
By Cees Glas, Jaap Scheerens, Sally M. Thomas
October 31, 2007
This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective. Planning concepts, restructuring of education systems, organizational theory on schools, evaluation methodology and models of school effectiveness and school improvement are discussed as ...
The Dynamics of Educational Effectiveness: A Contribution to Policy, Practice and Theory in Contemporary Schools
1st Edition
By Bert P.M. Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides
October 30, 2007
This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors analyse the various theories and strands of research within educational effectiveness, especially with respect to ...
School Improvement Through Performance Feedback
1st Edition
Edited
By A.J. Visscher, R. Coe
February 01, 2007
Internationally there is an increasing trend to publish and feed back information to schools and teachers on their functioning. School improvement is often the central goal, though accountability and the promotion of parental/student school choice also play an important role.Practical initiatives ...
Managing Schools Towards High Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By A.J. Visscher
October 27, 2006
This text aims to connect school organization theory with the school effectiveness knowledge base. Each chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the knowledge base on the central theme and addresses the question of what is known about the subject as a school effectiveness-enhancing condition....
School Effectiveness
1st Edition
By Pamela Sammons
January 01, 1999
This volume explores the influence of students' background on educational outcomes, ways of contextualising school performance, and current issues and developments in school effectiveness research. Also investigated is how the research contributes to understanding of school and classroom processes....
The Road to Improvement
1st Edition
By Peter Mortimore
January 01, 1999
This is a collection of 19 articles charting developments in school effectiveness research, both on the evaluative and reflective side, and the emergence from it of pro-active school improvement ideas and initiatives....
Education for All
1st Edition
By Robert E. Slavin
January 01, 1996
This work is a collection of previously published articles by Robert Slavin. The articles trace the evolution, over a quarter-century, of the powerful idea that given well-developed, rigorously evaluated methods and materials, teachers can succeed with virtually all children....