Description
| Product ID: | 9783030693473 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Accountability and Educational Improvement |
| Title: | Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research |
| Subtitle: | Longitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed Methods and Their Relevance for Educational Accountability |
| Authors: | Author: Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Tobias Feldhoff, Katharina Maag Merki, Falk Radisch |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Research methods: general, Research methods: general, Educational systems and structures, Schools inspection (& preparing for inspection) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. 1. Editorial, Introduction; A. Oude Groote Beverborg, K. Maag Merki, T. Feldhoff, & F. Radisch. 2. School Improvement Capacity - A Review and a Reconceptualisation from the Perspectives of Educational Effectiveness and Educational Policy; D. Reynolds & A. Neeleman. 3. Why must everything be so complicated? Demands and challenges on methods for analysing school improvement processes; T. Feldhoff & F. Radisch. 4. School improvement Capacity - theory and methodological challenges; K. Maag Merki. 5. Can lacking measurement invariance in school improvement research be interpreted?; M. Sauerwein & D. Theis. 6. The relationship between professional community practices and other school organizational and educational practices in 23 European countries; C. Lomos.7. Reframing the nature of inquiry in educational leadership research; D. Ng F. S.. 8. Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) as a methodological approach to assess school improvement processes; A. Oude Groote Beverborg, M. Wijnants, P.J.C. Sleegers, & T. Feldhoff. 9. Learning in collaboration: Exploring processes and outcomes through a mixed methods design; G. Devos & B. Vanblaere. 10. Group-actor-partnership-interdependence-model; K. Schudel. 11. The structure of leadership language: Rhetorical methods for studying instructional improvement; R. Lowenhaupt. 12. Designing and piloting a leadership daily practice log: Using logs to study the practice of leadership; J.P. Spillane & A. Zuberi. 13. Editorial, Discussion; A. Oude Groote Beverborg, K. Maag Merki, T. Feldhoff, & F. Radisch. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-16 |
