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Disability studies as a framework to design disability awareness programs: no need for ‘magic’ to facilitate children’s understanding
(2018)
This paper presents and critically discusses a disability awareness program that was addressed to non-disabled children aged between 6-8 years old in Cyprus. The main aims were to explore how disability studies and ...
The Dynamic Integrated Approach to teacher professional development: rationale and main characteristics
(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 ...
A synthesis of studies searching for school factors: Implications for theory and research
(2010)
This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis in which the dynamic model of educational effectiveness is used as a framework to search for school factors associated with student achievement. The methods and results of ...
The short- and long-term effects of secondary schools upon students' academic success and development
(2012)
This paper presents the results of a study investigating the short- and long-term effects of secondary schools upon student academic success and development. A questionnaire was administered to a randomly selected sample ...
Using the dynamic approach to school improvement to promote quality and equity in education: a European study
(2019)
This paper presents the results of a European study investigating the extent to which the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement (DASI) can help schools situated in socially disadvantaged areas to improve their effectiveness. ...
The contribution of epistemological beliefs to informal reasoning regarding health socio-scientific issues.
(University of Karlstad, 2016)
In this study, we aimed to investigate whether pre-service primary teachers’ epistemological beliefs predict their informal reasoning, while trying to manage health Socio-Scientific Issues. We used dual-process theories ...
Searching for differential teacher and school effectiveness in terms of student socioeconomic status and gender: implications for promoting equity
(2019)
This paper argues that research on differential teacher and school effectiveness can be used to explore the relation between quality and equity in education. The results of secondary analyses of 2 studies concerned with ...
The link between educational expenditures and student learning outcomes: Evidence from Cyprus
(2019)
The paper investigates the relationship between educational expenditures and student learning outcomes in the Republic of Cyprus. Using Multilevel Regression Analysis and Discriminant Function Analysis, we investigate the ...