Overview
- Provides evidence that teachers and schools can achieve both quality and equity, rather than treating these as two competing dimensions
- Proposes a methodology for further development of research on quality and equity in education
- Draws implications for establishing school evaluation mechanisms concerned with the impact of schools in promoting both quality and equity
Part of the book series: Policy Implications of Research in Education (PIRE, volume 8)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity. The importance of using this instrument is demonstrated by analysing results of various effectiveness studies conducted over the last decade. The book draws upon research across the world, especially research conducted in the Europe, the United States, and Australasia. It is shown that promoting equity has no negative effect on the promotion of quality. The importance of using this methodological instrument to identify factors that promote both quality and equity at different educational levels (i.e. teacher, school and educational system) is stressed. The book also demonstrates how we can measure stability and changes in the effectiveness status of schools over time in terms of fostering quality and equity. In addition it underlines the importance of identifying factors measuring changes in the effectiveness status of schools in terms of equity and points to the alternative strategies that can be used at school and system level. In our attempt to encourage the further development and use of this methodology for school improvement purposes, we demonstrate how experimental studies can be conducted to discover whether and under which conditions the proposed methodology can help schools promote both quality and equity. Finally, implications for school evaluation, research, educational policy and practice are drawn. In this way, the book contributes significantly to the debate on how quality and equity can be achieved and encourages policy-makers and practitioners not to view these two dimensions of effectiveness as being in competition with each other but as constituting the major objectives of any reform policy and/or improvement effortat school and/or national levels.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness
Authors: Leonidas Kyriakides, Bert Creemers, Evi Charalambous
Series Title: Policy Implications of Research in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72066-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72064-7Published: 12 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89135-4Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72066-1Published: 03 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2543-0289
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 237
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation