Why School Improvement in Secondary Education Is So Difficult? Learning About Improvement From Chilean High Schools

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The international literature shows that improving secondary schools is more difficult, reforms and programs have been more successful in improving primary than secondary schools, and there is less evidence about how to change and to improve secondary schools. During the last years the researchers of the symposium have developed studies to understand deeply how some Chilean secondary schools had improved sustainable. For this goal we have used several quantitative and qualitative methodologies, in particular advanced statistical analyzes and in-depth multiple case studies. In this context, the main objective of the symposium is to analyze the change and improvement processes of high schools, their differences with primary schools, and particularly why it is so difficult to improve in secondary education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Educational Change

Chair

• Carmen Montecinos, Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

Papers

• Improvement Trajectories of Secondary Schools in Chile - Juan Pablo Valenzuela, Universidad de Chile; Claudio Allende, Universidad de Chile

• Keys Processes and Conditions of Institutional Secondary Schools Improvement - Xavier Vanni, Universidad de Chile; Mariana Contreras, Universidad de Chile; Cristian Bellei, Universidad de Chile; Juan Pablo Valenzuela, Universidad de Chile

• Typologies of Secondary Schools' Improvement - Cristian Bellei, Universidad de Chile; Mariana Contreras, Universidad de Chile; Juan Pablo Valenzuela, Universidad de Chile; Xavier Vanni, Universidad de Chile

Discussant

• Santiago Rincon-Gallardo, Michael Fullan Enterprises