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Panayiotou, Anastasia; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. – School Leadership & Management, 2016
This European project investigates the impact of the school factors included in the dynamic model of educational effectiveness on student achievement. In each participating country (Belgium/Flanders, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland and Slovenia), a sample of at least 50 schools was drawn and tests in mathematics and science were administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Models
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Georgiou, Maria P.; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Reynolds, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
This paper investigates the impact of national policies for improving teaching and the school learning environment (SLE) on student achievement. In each participating country (i.e., Belgium/Flanders, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland, and Slovenia), a sample of at least 50 schools was drawn and tests in mathematics and science were administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert Peter Maria – School Psychology International, 2013
This article examines whether variation in school effectiveness in terms of reducing bullying can be attributed to differences in their classroom and school learning environment. All 6th grade students ("n"?=?1504) of 35 primary schools in Cyprus participated in this study. The revised Olweus bully/victim questionnaire was used to…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Bullying, School Effectiveness, Grade 6
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Papastylianou, Dona; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
A framework based on research on bullying and on educational effectiveness was offered to schools to assist them in developing strategies and actions to improve their learning environment, their policy for teaching, and their evaluation mechanisms in order to reduce bullying. At the beginning and end of the intervention, the Revised Olweus…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Bullying, Peer Relationship, Questionnaires
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Vanlaar, Gudrun; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Vandecandelaere, Machteld; McMahon, Léan; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Background: The dynamic model of educational effectiveness (DMEE) is a comprehensive theoretical framework including factors that are important for school learning, based on consistent findings within educational effectiveness research. Purpose: This study investigates the impact of teacher and school factors of DMEE on mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas – South African Journal of Education, 2009
We present results of a longitudinal study in which 50 schools, 113 classes and 2,542 Cypriot primary students participated. We tested the validity of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness and especially its assumption that the impact of school factors depends on the current situation of the school and on the type of problems/difficulties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Institutional Characteristics
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Vanlaar, Gudrun; Pfeifer, Michael; Cankar, Gašper; McMahon, Léan – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This paper argues for the value of using student ratings to measure quality of teaching. An international study to test the validity of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness was conducted. At classroom level, the model consists of eight factors relating to teacher behaviour: orientation, structuring, questioning, teaching modelling,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
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Panayiotou, Anastasia; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; McMahon, Léan; Vanlaar, Gudrun; Pfeifer, Michael; Rekalidou, Galini; Bren, Matevž – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2014
This study investigates the extent to which the factors included in the dynamic model of educational effectiveness are associated with student achievement gains in six different European countries. At classroom level, the dynamic model refers to eight factors relating to teacher behavior in the classroom: orientation, structuring, questioning,…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Models
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Muijs, Daniel; Rekers-Mombarg, Lyset; Papastylianou, Dona; Van Petegem, Peter; Pearson, Diana – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
This project investigates the impact of the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) aiming to help schools face and reduce bullying through integrating research on bullying with educational effectiveness research (EER). A network of approximately 15 schools in each participating country (i.e., Belgium, Cyprus, England, Greece, and The…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Change Strategies
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Kyriakides, Leonidas – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This paper is concerned with the importance of testing and developing integrated multilevel educational effectiveness models through comparative studies in educational effectiveness. It is argued that secondary analyses of international comparative studies could help researchers test and develop integrated multilevel educational effectiveness…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Researchers, Models, Academic Achievement
Kyriakides, Leonidas – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2005
This paper presents results of a study attempting to identify the extent to which teacher effectiveness research and research into teacher interpersonal behavior can help us collect valid and reliable evaluative data from students about their teacher behavior. The major findings of teacher effectiveness research are outlined and the process that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Achievement Gains, Teacher Evaluation
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Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Philippou, George N.; Kyriakides, Leonidas – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2008
This paper focuses on efficacy beliefs with respect to teaching mathematics; it aims at testing and validating an existing scale for measuring efficacy beliefs in the domain of mathematics, examining the development of preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs in mathematics during fieldwork, and identifying factors that contribute to the development…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Kaloyirou, Chrystalla; Lindsay, Geoff – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Bullying is a problem in schools in many countries. There would be a benefit in the availability of a psychometrically sound instrument for its measurement, for use by teachers and researchers. The Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire has been used in a number of studies but comprehensive evidence on its validity is not available. Aims:…
Descriptors: Mathematical Formulas, Probability, Victims of Crime, Student Behavior