Educational effectiveness research (EER): a state-of-the-art review
@article{Reynolds2014EducationalER, title={Educational effectiveness research (EER): a state-of-the-art review}, author={David H. Reynolds and Pam Sammons and Bieke De Fraine and Jan Van Damme and Tony Townsend and Charles B. Teddlie and Sam Stringfield}, journal={School Effectiveness and School Improvement}, year={2014}, volume={25}, pages={197 - 230} }
Research and scholarship into educational effectiveness research (EER) is comprehensively reviewed from the UK, The Netherlands, the US, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and other societies, dating from the field’s origins in the 1970s. Issues include its history, methodological and theoretical advances, scientific properties of school effects, processes at school and classroom level behind these effects, the somewhat limited translation of findings into policy…
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