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Integrating generic and content-specific teaching practices in exploring teaching quality in primary physical education
(2018)
The vast majority of research in physical education (PE) has focused on teaching and teacher effectiveness. Despite the fact that this research strand is fast growing, what effective teaching is and how it contributes to ...
Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness
(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 ...
Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data
(2018)
Omitted prior achievement bias is pervasive in international assessment studies and precludes causal inference. For example, reported negative associations between student-oriented teaching strategies and student performance ...
Promoting quality and equity in socially disadvantaged schools: A group- randomisation study
(2018)
This study investigates the impact of the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement (DASI) on promoting quality and equity. Forty primary schools in socially disadvantaged areas were randomly split into two groups. The control ...
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. ...
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 ...
Assessing individual lessons using a generic teacher observation instrument: how useful is the International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback (ISTOF)?
(2018)
Teacher effectiveness, which impacts student attainment even when controlling for student characteristics, is of key importance as a factor in educational effectiveness and improvement. Improving the quality of teaching ...
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 ...