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Developing and Testing Theories of Educational Effectiveness Addressing the Dynamic Nature of Education

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This chapter refers to theories of educational effectiveness which have been developed during the last four decades. It is shown that researchers moved from searching for the impact of isolated factors associated with different theoretical perspectives of effectiveness to the development of integrated models which take into account the multilevel nature of education. The contribution of the integrated and multilevel models in understanding the complex nature of educational effectiveness is discussed in the first part of this chapter. It is also pointed out that these theories were not in a position to establish links between research on educational effectiveness and school improvement efforts. By considering the limitations of the integrated models of educational effectiveness, a model that takes into account the dynamic nature of education was proposed. Thus, the second part of this chapter refers to the rationale and major assumptions of the dynamic model. Namely, the theoretical importance of each factor included in the model for explaining variation in student outcomes is explained, by linking each factor with relevant theories of learning and school organisation. In the last part, an overview of national and international studies conducted to test the validity of the dynamic model, is provided. These empirical studies as well as relevant meta-analyses seem to provide support for the importance of specific factors included in the model and their measurement dimensions. Suggestions on how to further improve this model, taking into consideration ways of not only raising quality in education, but also addressing issues of equity, are also provided. Finally, a number of implications for research on promoting quality and equity in education are drawn.

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Kyriakides, L., Creemers, B., Panayiotou, A. (2020). Developing and Testing Theories of Educational Effectiveness Addressing the Dynamic Nature of Education. In: Hall, J., Lindorff, A., Sammons, P. (eds) International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44810-3_3

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