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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 ...
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 ...
Of(f) Course: Michel Foucault, the Mobile Philosopher and his Dreamworlds
(2019)
Foucault extolled the Iranian revolution and, anticipating the havoc that his public intervention in favour of the revolution would create, he wrote: “I can already hear the French laughing, but I know that they are wrong”. ...
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. ...