Educational Effectiveness and Improvement Research: Methodology, Improvement, and Systemic Effect

• In Event: 58.019 - Over 30 Years of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Improvement, and Reform: Past Reflections and Future Directions

Abstract

The paper aims to explore needed future directions for EEIR, building on the multiple insights from Sam Stringfield’s writing and research.

EEIR has generated a cumulative, quality knowledge base of large size in areas such as educational effects, their causes, the properties of effective institutions and the prospects of school/teacher improvement (Reynolds et al, 2014). However, three areas still need attention:
- More appropriate methodologies
- The need to find school improvement that ‘works’
- The importance of undertaking more soundly based system level research, to complement that on schools and classrooms.

Authors

• Christopher James Chapman, University of Glasgow

• Daniel R. Muijs, University of Southampton

• David Reynolds, Swansea University