Browsing by Author "Kyriakides, Leonidas"
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Do the teacher and school factors of the dynamic model affect high- and Low-Achieving student groups to the same extent? A Cross-Country study
Vanlaar, Gudrun; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Vandecandelaere, Machteld; McMahon, Lean; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan (2016)Background. The dynamic model of educational effectiveness (DMEE) is a comprehensive theoretical framework including factors that are important for school learning, based on consistent findings within educational effectiveness ...
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A dynamic approach to school improvement: Main features and impact
Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Antoniou,Panayiotis (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 ...
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A Dynamic Integrated Approach to teacher professional development: Impact and sustainability of the effects on improving teacher behaviour and student outcomes
Antoniou,Panayiotis; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2013)This paper reports the results of an experimental study investigating the impact and the one-year sustainability of the effects of the Dynamic Integrated Approach (DIA) to teacher professional development. Teaching skills ...
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The Dynamic Integrated Approach to teacher professional development: rationale and main characteristics
Antoniou,Panayiotis; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. (2015)This paper refers to the Dynamic Integrated Approach (DIA) towards teacher professional development, which attempts to merge research findings on teacher effectiveness and teacher professional development. The theoretical ...
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The dynamics of educational effectiveness: A contribution to policy, practice and theory in contemporary schools
Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (Routledge, 2007)
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Educational effectiveness research and international comparative studies: Looking back and looking forward.
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Charalambous, Charalambos Y. (Waxmann, 2014)With a little more than half of a century of conducting International Comparative Studies (ICS) and almost half of a century after the issuing of Coleman et al.’s study – often thought to have sparked Educational Effectiveness ...
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Educational effectiveness research in new, emerging, and traditional contexts
Thomas, S. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Townsend, T. (2015)
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Educational Effectiveness Theory and Research: Recent Advances.
Kyriakides, Leonidas (Elsevier, 2015)
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Educational Effectiveness.
Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (Elsevier, 2015)
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Effective teaching and values: Some implications for research and teacher appraisa
Campbell, R. J.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Muijs, R. D.; Robinson, W. (2004)Teacher effectiveness research has tended to neglect the analysis of values in two senses: the general values associated with the processes of education, and the more specific values underlying effective teaching. The ...
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Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert; Charalambous, Evi (Springer, 2018)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 ...
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Evaluating school policy on parents working with their children in class
Kyriakides, Leonidas (2005)The author presents findings of an attempt by a primary school in Cyprus to implement a policy on partnerships that encourages parents to work with their children in school. Before the introduction of the school policy, ...
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Explaining stability and changes in school effectiveness by looking at changes in the functioning of school factors
Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2010)This paper investigates the extent to which changes in the effectiveness status of schools can be related to changes in the functioning of school factors included in the dynamic model of educational effectiveness. The ...
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Exploring causal relationships in experimental and non-experimental designs. A brief overview.
Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (University of Nicosia, 2012)
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Exploring the reliability of generic and content-specific instructional aspects in physical education lessons
Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Kyriakides, Ermis; Tsangaridou, Niki; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2017)Heightened accountability pressures and an increased emphasis on teaching quality have directed scholarly attention to scrutinizing instruction, particularly with respect to issues of validity and reliability. However, ...
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Extending the comprehensive model of educational effectiveness by an empirical investigation
Kyriakides, Leonidas (2005)The aim of this study was to test the validity of Creemers' model of educational effectiveness in relation to different criteria of measuring effectiveness. It was also examined whether the variables "personality" and ...
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The functional and developmental organization of cognitive developmental sequences
Demetriou, Andreas P.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2006)This study examines the organization and development of 5 domains of reasoning (categorical, quantitative, spatial, causal, and propositional) and the construct validity of a test designed to measure development from early ...
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Gender differences in mathematics achievement: An investigation of gender differences by item difficulty interactions
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Antoniou,Panayiotis (2009)This paper presents findings from research exploring gender by item difficulty interaction on mathematics test scores in Cyprus. Data steamed from 2 longitudinal studies with 4 different age groups of primary school students. ...
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Generating criteria for evaluating teachers through teacher effectiveness research
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Demetriou, Demetris; Charalambous, Charalambos Y. (2006)One of the major problems that confronts most educational systems concerns the need for developing a valid personnel evaluation system based on a strong theoretical framework. Unless the criteria for evaluating teachers ...
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Generating criteria for measuring teacher effectiveness through a self-evaluation approach: A complementary way of measuring teacher effectiveness
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Campbell, R. J.; Christofidou, E. (2002)The article argues that the traditional conception of teacher effectiveness, focused on the teaching performance of individual teachers in relation to student cognitive outcomes, has limitations primarily because it does ...