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Serious Doubts about School Effectiveness
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Gorard, Stephen – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This paper considers the model of school effectiveness (SE) currently dominant in research, policy and practice in England (although the concerns it raises are international). It shows, principally through consideration of initial and propagated error, that SE results cannot be relied upon. By considering the residual difference between the…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Scores, Educational Policy