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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Developing, Testing, and Using Theoretical Models for Promoting Quality in Education
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Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This paper argues that the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be used to establish stronger links between educational effectiveness research (EER) and school improvement. It provides research evidence to support the validity of the model. Thus, the importance of using the dynamic model to establish an evidence-based and theory-driven…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Educational Improvement
The Contribution of Schooling to Secondary-School Students' Citizenship Outcomes across Countries
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Isac, Maria Magdalena; Maslowski, Ralf; Creemers, Bert; van der Werf, Greetje – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
This article uses an educational effectiveness approach to model the impact of student, school, and educational system characteristics on several cognitive and non-cognitive student outcomes related to citizenship education. Using multivariate multilevel analysis, data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Multivariate Analysis, Secondary School Students
State of the Art -- Teacher Effectiveness and Professional Learning
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Muijs, Daniel; Kyriakides, Leonidas; van der Werf, Greetje; Creemers, Bert; Timperley, Helen; Earl, Lorna – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
One of the key findings from decades of educational effectiveness research is the importance of the classroom level as a predictor of pupil outcomes. In this review, we therefore look at synthesising our best evidence from research on effective teaching, and its corollary, teacher development. In the 1st section, we will look at key findings from…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
Improving Parental Involvement in Primary Education in Indonesia: Implementation, Effects, and Costs.
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van der Werf, Greetje; Creemers, Bert; Guldemond, Henk – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2001
Comparative analysis of the implementation, effects, and costs of efforts to increase parental involvement in a large-scale primary-school improvement project in Indonesia. Finds that while not successfully implemented, parental involvement, compared with the other interventions (teacher development, books, and materials), is effective in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Parent Participation
Economic Viewpoints in Educational Effectiveness: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of an Educational Improvement Project.
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Creemers, Bert; van der Werf, Greetje – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2000
An evaluation of the Primary Education Quality Improvement Project in Indonesia illustrates that combining the knowledge base and methodology of educational effectiveness research and cost-effectiveness analysis provides fruitful possibilities for future theoretical/practical developments in both approaches. PEQIP positively affected student…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
The Future of School Effectiveness and Improvement (A Report on the Special Sessions and Plenary at ICSEI 1998 in Manchester, UK).
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Creemers, Bert; Reynolds, David; Chrispeels, Janet; Mortimore, Peter; Murphy, Joe; Stringfield, Sam; Stoll, Louise; Townsend, Tony – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1998
At the 10th International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement, participants noted progress in effectiveness research regarding development of outcome measures, size effects, measures of educational processes, and variables contributing to effectiveness. School-improvement research has focused on schools' status changes,…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Effective Schools Research