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Harris, Alma; Chapman, Christopher; Muijs, Daniel; Reynolds, David – School Leadership & Management, 2013
Educational effectiveness research (EER) has accumulated much knowledge in the areas of school effectiveness research (SER), teacher effectiveness research (TER) and school/system improvement research (SSIR). Yet many schools and educational systems are not making enough use of the material and their insights. The article reviews evidence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
Lysenko, Larysa V.; Abrami, Philip C.; Dagenais, Christian; Janosz, Michel – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
This study investigates the predictors of school practitioners' (N = 2,425) use of educational research. The suggested model explained significantly but modestly the infrequent use of educational research by practitioners. Of the four factors in the study, "opinions about research" had the most explanatory power. The results are…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Research Utilization, Predictor Variables
Campo-Contreras, Susana – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the study was to develop a better understanding of the allocation of resources used to improve student learning outcomes in three middle schools within a Charter Management Organization (CMO). The three middle schools that participated in the study have similar demographics and serve students in low socio-economic areas of Los…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
Secolsky, Charles, Ed.; Denison, D. Brian, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education" provides higher…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Teacher Effectiveness