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Direct linkAngela Renae Codron – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined a differentiated, bottom-up approach to school improvement planning through exploration of the qualities that make up a highly effective school department team as it related to their ability to create and meet a student-centered, data driven high achievement goal. While there are a multitude of factors that affect the ability…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Educational Improvement, Cooperative Planning, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedStefan Arora-Jonsson; Ema Kristina Demir; Axel Norgren; Karl Wennberg – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Research on school improvement has accumulated an extensive list of factors that facilitate turnarounds at underperforming schools. Given that context or resource constraints may limit the possibilities of putting all of these factors in place, an important question is what is necessary and sufficient to turn a school around. We use qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Turnaround, Context Effect, Educational Improvement
Ebrahim Azimi; Jane Friesen; Simon Woodcock – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
We investigate the effects of private schools on reading and numeracy scores using rich population data. Conditional on lagged test scores and narrowly defined neighborhood indicators, Catholic and non-Christian faith private schools on average raise test scores by 0.18 standard deviation or more relative to the average public school, while…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Scores
Queinnise Miller; Amanda S. Tabor; Gerry S. Emig; John Decman – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
This case study explores the challenges faced by incoming principals who encounter unexpected situations along with the impacts on multiple stakeholders of leadership transition on a middle school campus. Leadership shifts are felt throughout organizations in diverse ways and may even have a personal impact on individuals in a school community.…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Principals, School Effectiveness, Leadership Styles
Bruce S. Rawlings; Helen Elizabeth Davis; Adote Anum; Oskar Burger; Lydia Chen; Juliet Carolina Castro Morales; Natalia Dutra; Ardain Dzabatou; Vivian Dzokoto; Alejandro Erut; Frankie T. K. Fong; Sabrina Ghelardi; Micah Goldwater; Gordon Ingram; Emily Messer; Jessica Kingsford; Sheina Lew-Levy; Kimberley Mendez; Morgan Newhouse; Mark Nielsen; Gairan Pamei; Sarah Pope-Caldwell; Karlos Ramos; Luis Emilio Echeverria Rojas; Renan A. C. dos Santos; Lara G. S. Silveira; Julia Watzek; Ciara Wirth; Cristine H. Legare – Developmental Science, 2024
Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high income countries has shown that school quality indicators have a significant, positive impact on numeracy and literacy--skills required to participate in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, School Effectiveness, Measurement
Chunlei Gao; Jiaxin Zou; Lang Zheng; Ailin Yuan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2025
School effectiveness refers to an educational institution's ability to achieve its predetermined goals, especially regarding student learning outcomes, development, and well-being. Although forming and strengthening partnerships between schools is commonly used to improve school effectiveness, empirical evidence on the connection between school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Academic Achievement
Zehorit Dadon-Golan; Iris BenDavid-Hadar; Reut Tsidkany – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: First, to analyze the relationships between school effectiveness, as expressed in the improvement gained in academic achievements, and school structure; and second, to analyze the relationships between school effectiveness and school features (e.g. ethnicity, SES, rural vs. central location, class size, prior achievements, and per-student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Schools, School Effectiveness
Download full textStéphane Lavertu – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
Over the past two decades, researchers have spent countless hours studying the impacts of public charter schools--independently-run, tuition-free schools of choice that serve some 3.7 million U.S. students today. Just prior to the pandemic, studies from Ohio and nationally indicated that charters on average delivered superior academic outcomes…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, COVID-19, Pandemics
Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter; Walters, Christopher R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test scores and other outcomes. Widely-disseminated school ratings frameworks compare average student achievement across schools, but uncontrolled differences in means…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques, Institutional Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Björn Ahlström; Marit Aas – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
In this paper, we investigate how professional cultures and situated, material and external contexts relate to dynamic low- and underperforming schools in Scandinavia, particularly how the leadership is constructed through the leader, the followers and the situation. The first school studied was a low-performing school in Norway called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
Daniel B. Robinson; Gregory R. L. Hadley; Jennifer Mitton – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This article focuses upon the milieu of single-sex schooling within an elite independent school in a Canadian urban centre. This research served as an exploratory and critical examination of single-sex schooling in a specific context, and considered its relevance, pedagogical effectiveness, and ability to meet its purported goals. Using an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Private Schools, School Effectiveness
Amy LaMotte Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Through the years, the role of the school principal has shifted from managerial to an instructional focus, which required additional skills, strategies, oversight, and flexibility. Assuming the role of instructional leader challenged principals to ensure students achieve at high levels. Legislation over the years added to the high expectations…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Secondary Schools, Public Schools
Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024
Ohio Revised Code 3302.038 requires the Department of Education and Workforce ("the Department") to submit a report regarding the effectiveness of the school district and building report cards by Dec. 31, 2024. The statute requires the Department to study data from the Ohio School Report Cards for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Nechama Nadav; Pascale Benoliel; Chen Schechter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
Relying on the social cognitive theory, which postulates that human behaviour is due to social experiences and cognitive interpretation, the current study seeks to investigate the mediating role of collective teacher efficacy (CTE) in the relationship between principals' systems thinking (PST) and school effectiveness in terms of academic emphasis…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Ru Cai; Xinping Zhang; Jijun Yao; Shike Zhou – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2024
"Deficit remediation" as an educational governance paradigm has given rise to many problems, whereas principal positive leadership under the "strengths development" paradigm has the potential to give new impetus to school development. Based on large-scale survey data within a provincial region, this study investigates how the…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness
