School Effectiveness and School Improvement in the United Kingdom
School Effectiveness and School Improvement in the United Kingdom
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英国的学校效能和学校改进
DOI:
10.1080/0924345960070203
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发表时间:
1996
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
J. Hillman
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作者:
D. Reynolds;P. Sammons;L. Stoll;M. Barber;J. Hillman
School effectiveness research in the United Kingdom has had a somewhat difficult infancy. The traditional hegemony of British educational research, which was orientated to psychological perspectives and their emphasis upon individuals and families as determinants of educational outcomes, created a professional educational research climate somewhat unfriendly to school effectiveness research, as shown by the initially very hostile British reactions to the Rutter et al.(1979) study Fifteen Thousand Hours (eg, Goldstein, 1980). Other factors that hindered development were:1 The problems of gaining access to schools for research purposes, in a situation where the educational system was customarily used to considerable autonomy from direct state control, and in a situation where individual schools had considerable autonomy from their Local Educational Authorities (or districts), and where individual teachers had considerable autonomy within schools; 2 The absence of reliable and valid measures of school institutional climate (a marked contrast to the situation in the United States for example);