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Exploring formative assessment in primary school classrooms: Developing a framework of actions and strategies
(2014)
The importance of formative assessment in facilitating student learning has been well established in the literature. However, defining and implementing formative assessment in classroom settings is a rather complicated ...
School self-evaluation for school improvement: Examining the measuring properties of the LEAD surveys
(2016)
Research evidence suggests school self-evaluation with the participation of school stakeholders could improve teaching and learning. Identification and use of appropriate self-evaluation frameworks, however, is not an easy ...
Searching for stages of teacher's skills in assessment
(2014)
This study investigates teachers' skills in using various techniques of assessment in mathematics by taking into account the four phases of assessment and the five measurement dimensions of the dynamic model of educational ...
A dynamic approach to school improvement: Main features and impact
(2013)
This paper refers to the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) which attempts to contribute to the merging of educational effectiveness research and school improvement. The main underlying assumptions and the ...
Studying mathematics instruction through different lenses: setting the ground for understanding instructional quality more comprehensively
(2018)
Researchers from different fields have developed different observational instruments to capture instructional quality with a focus on generic versus content-specific dimensions or a combination of both. As this work is ...
Classroom observation frameworks for studying instructional quality: looking back and looking forward
(2018)
Observation-based frameworks of instructional quality differ largely in the approach and the purposes of their development, their theoretical underpinnings, the instructional aspects covered, their operationalization and ...
Reconsidering the use of video clubs for student-teachers' learning during field placement: Lessons drawn from a longitudinal multiple case study
(2018)
Although video clubs have been used to support (student) teachers' learning through reflection upon practice, less attention has been paid to their potential use for supporting changes in participants' practice over a ...
Improving quality and equity in schools in socially disadvantaged areas
(2019)
Background: Recent effectiveness studies have investigated the relationship between two dimensions of effectiveness – namely, quality and equity. Specifically, the question of whether effective schools can also reduce the ...
Are teachers consistently effective across subject matters? Revisiting the issue of differential teacher effectiveness
(2019)
Although consistency in teacher effectiveness has attracted scholarly interest since the 1960s, revived interest in differential teacher effectiveness is recently witnessed, with empirical studies more systematically testing ...