A History of School Effectiveness and Improvement Research in the USA Focusing on the Past Quarter Century

An Education System’s Perspective on Turning Around South Africa’s Dysfunctional Schools

“…• Developing staff skills with site-based actions which are integrated with ongoing professional development • Involving parents in productive and appropriate ways by buffering negative influences and encouraging productive interactions with parents (cf Teddlie & Reynolds in Sammons, DeLaMatre & Mujtaba, 2002;Teddlie & Stringfield, 2007) Although not a comprehensive definition, it can be summarised from SER literature that there are no quick fixes in determining what school effectiveness constitutes, and also how the conditions to develop and maintain it should be created. There is growing awareness of the complexity of studying school effectiveness as schools might be differentially effective for certain kinds of students and in different subject areas (Sammons, 2006).…”

Overview and rationale for the Systematic Screening and Assessment Method

“…Some relevant efforts have preceded this work. The school improvement literature offers examples (Teddie & Stringfield, 2007), as does the CDC SWAT initiative to be described here (Dunet et al, 2008;Hersey et al, 2008). RWJF has sometimes sought real-world practices for a test; for example, the Finding Answers national program solicits interventions on cardiac care for minority populations that then undergo evaluation and dissemination of those found to be effective (Schlotthauer et al, 2008).…”

“…Investigators found consistent differences between these schools and lower-performing schools. However, independent outcome studies of any of these characteristics were extremely rare (Teddie & Stringfield, 2007). Unlike the outlier methods as applied to school improvement research, the SSA Method aimed specifically to plan for independent tests of the effectiveness of the promising exemplars.…”

“…They help to locate it within a family of methods that first identify promising programs and practices and then investigate them. First was the school improvement effort of the early 1980s, which identified schools that were performing better than would be predicted on the basis of their resources and the background of the children (Teddie & Stringfield, 2007). High-performing schools were selected either because of "outlier" status or consistently high performance year after year, controlling for these background characteristics.…”

Diferenças intertemporais na média e distribuição do desempenho escolar no Brasil: o papel do nível socioeconômico, 1997 a 2005

“…Nos Estados Unidos, pesquisas sobre avaliação da educação escolar têm sido realizadas desde o início do século XX (TEDDLIE;STrINGFIELD, 2007;MADAUS et al, 2008). Entretanto, a consolidação de uma linha de pesquisa quantitativa focada na avaliação da relação entre os atributos escolares e o desenvolvimento das habilidades cognitivas dos estudantes ocorreu apenas após a publicação do conhecido relatório Coleman, em 1966(BOGOTCH et al, 2007TEDDLIE;STrINGFIELD, 2007;CrEEMErS, 2007;BrOOKE;SOArES, 2008).…”