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50 Years of ERIC
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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Reynolds, David; Sammons, Pam; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan; Townsend, Tony; Teddlie, Charles; Stringfield, Sam – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
Research and scholarship into educational effectiveness research (EER) is comprehensively reviewed from the UK, The Netherlands, the US, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and other societies, dating from the field's origins in the 1970s. Issues include its history, methodological and theoretical advances,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Effectiveness, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
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Schoen, La Tefy; Teddlie, Charles – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
Van Houtte (2005) called for clarification of the terms "school culture" and "school climate" and the role of each in school effectiveness research. This article presents a theoretical framework for school culture that asserts that it is a context-specific branch of organizational culture comprised of 4 dimensions and 3 levels. This…
Descriptors: School Culture, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Organizational Culture
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Teddlie, Charles; Liu, Shujie – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
The objective of this study was to advance our understanding of educational effectiveness processes within contexts where they have seldom been studied before: rural and urban areas in China. Utilizing a "contextually sensitive" school effectiveness research design, we collected classroom observation data to address our research hypotheses and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Effective Schools Research, Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools
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Teddlie, Charles; Reynolds, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2001
Counters 14 criticisms of school-effectiveness research (SER). Many criticisms are founded on simplistic/skewed readings of SER; there is wide diversity in SER. Many SER researchers have considered socioeconomic effects on achievement but believe schools can have influences beyond social class. Pragmatism is a worthy paradigm for studying schools.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Disadvantaged Schools, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Reynolds, David; Teddlie, Charles – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2001
School-effectiveness research has made three considerable contributions: establishing a field exhibiting the characteristics of normal science, generation of research findings on numerous important topics, and combating of social/professional pessimism concerning educational-advancement prospects. School-effectiveness researchers will probably…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
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Evans, Lynn; Teddlie, Charles – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1995
Examines various ways that principals provide leadership for school improvement and the relationship of these "change facilitator styles" to school effectiveness in different work contexts. Results of this study of 472 Louisiana elementary teachers indicate that principals exhibited different leadership styles across effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Change Strategies, Context Effect, Educational Improvement