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Educational effectiveness: the development of the discipline, the critiques, the defence, and the present debate

Educational effectiveness: the development of the discipline, the critiques, the defence, and the present debate
Educational effectiveness: the development of the discipline, the critiques, the defence, and the present debate
Educational effectiveness research (EER) has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the characteristics and processes associated with more and less effective schools in a diverse range of contexts. However, this remains a contested field of inquiry and has been subjected to significant critique. This paper examines the origins and development of EER and summarises the key critiques and defences of the field during the past 30 years. It then moves on to examine the recent critique of the field by Stephen Gorard in the UK and responds by highlighting statistical errors and simplistic claims made by Gorard about the field’s involvement with the development of national value-added systems and interaction with policy-making in his recent papers.
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Reynolds, David
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Sammons, Pamela
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Reynolds, David, Chapman, Christopher, Kelly, Anthony, Muijs, Daniel and Sammons, Pamela (2012) Educational effectiveness: the development of the discipline, the critiques, the defence, and the present debate. Effective Education, 3 (2), 1-19.

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Educational effectiveness research (EER) has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the characteristics and processes associated with more and less effective schools in a diverse range of contexts. However, this remains a contested field of inquiry and has been subjected to significant critique. This paper examines the origins and development of EER and summarises the key critiques and defences of the field during the past 30 years. It then moves on to examine the recent critique of the field by Stephen Gorard in the UK and responds by highlighting statistical errors and simplistic claims made by Gorard about the field’s involvement with the development of national value-added systems and interaction with policy-making in his recent papers.

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Published date: September 2012

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Local EPrints ID: 372453
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/372453
ISSN: 1941-5532
PURE UUID: abfc52d0-d20a-405f-b906-62ab7bbfa622
ORCID for Anthony Kelly: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4664-8585
ORCID for Daniel Muijs: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-8921

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Author: David Reynolds
Author: Christopher Chapman
Author: Anthony Kelly ORCID iD
Author: Daniel Muijs ORCID iD
Author: Pamela Sammons

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