A Partisan Evaluation‐‐John Elliott on school effectiveness

REFERENCES

• Aitkin , M. , Anderson , D. and Hinde , J. 1981a . Statistical modelling of data on teaching styles . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , A144 : 419 – 461 .
   Google Scholar
• Aitkin , M. , Bennett , N. and Hesketh , J. 1981b . Teaching styles and pupil progress: a re‐analysis . British Journal of Educational Psychology , 51 : 170 – 186 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bennett , N. 1976 . Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress , London : Open Books .
   Google Scholar
• Blatchford , P. and Mortimorej , P. 1994 . The issue of class size for young children in schools: what can we learn from research? . Oxford Review of Education , 20 : 411 – 428 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown , S. , Duffield , J. and Riddell , S. 1995 . School effectiveness research: the policy makers’ tool for school improvement . The European Educational Research Association Bulletin , 1 : 6 – 15 .
   Google Scholar
• Coleman , J.S. , Campbell , E. , Hobson , C. , McPartland , J. , Mood , A. , Weinfeld , F. and York , R. 1966 . Equality of Educational Opportunity , Washington : US Government Printing Office .
   Google Scholar
• Creemers , B.P.M. 1994 . The Effective Classroom , London : Cassell .
   Google Scholar
• Department for Education . 1992 . Choice and Diversity: a new framework for schools , London : DfE .
   Google Scholar
• Elliott , J. 1996 . School effectiveness research and its critics: alternative visions of schooling . Cambridge Journal of Education , 26 : 199 – 223 .
   Google Scholar
• Goldstein , H. and Spiegelhalter , D. 1996 . League tables and their limitations: statistical issues in comparisons of institutional performance . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , A159 : 385 – 443 .
   Google Scholar
• Goldstein , H. , Rasbash , J. , Yang , M. , Woodhouse , G. , Pan , H. , Nuttall , D. and Thomas , S. 1993 . A multilevel analysis of school examination results . Oxford Review of Education , 19 : 425 – 433 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gray , J. 1990 . The quality of schooling: frameworks for judgement . British Journal of Educational Studies , 38 : 204 – 223 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gray , J. and Jesson , D. 1989 . “ The impact of comprehensive reforms ” . In The Changing Secondary School , Edited by: Lowe , R. Basingstoke : Falmer Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gray , J. and Wilcox , B. 1995 . “ The challenge of turning round ineffective schools ” . In Good School, Bad School , Edited by: Gray , J. and Wilcox , B. Buckingham : OUP .
   Google Scholar
• Gray , J. , Jesson , D. and Sime , N. 1990 . Estimating differences in the examination performance of secondary schools in six LEAs: a multilevel approach to school effectiveness . Oxford Review of Education , 16 : 137 – 158 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gray , J. , Goldstein , H. and Jesson , D. 1996 . Changes and improvements in schools’ effectiveness: trends over five years . Research Papers in Education , 11 : 35 – 51 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris , A. , Jamieson , I. and Russ , J. 1995 . A study of effective departments in secondary schools . School Organisation , 15 : 283 – 299 .
   Google Scholar
• Jencks , C.S. , Smith , M. , Ackland , H. , Bane , M.J. , Cohen , D. , Gintis , H. , Heyns , B. and Micholson , S. 1972 . Inequality: a reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America , New York , NY : Basic Books .
   Google Scholar
• Mortimore , P. 7 February 1995 1995 . “ Effective schools: current impact and future possibilities ” . In Director's Inaugural Lecture , 7 February 1995 , Institute of Education, University of London .
   Google Scholar
• Mortimore , P. , Sammons , P. , Stoll , L. , Lewis , D. and Ecob , R. 1988 . School Matters: the junior years , Wells : Open Books .
   Google Scholar
• Mortimore , P. , Sammons , P. and Thomas , S. 1994 . School effectiveness and value added measures, (paper presented at the Desmond Nuttatt Memorial Conference, 10 June 1994) . Assessment in Education: principles, policy & practice , 1 : 315 – 332 .
   Google Scholar
• Perrone , V. 1989 . Effective Schools and Learning: reflections on teachers, schools and communities , New York , NY : Teachers College Press .
   Google Scholar
• Reynolds , D. 1992 . “ School effectiveness and school improvement: an updated review of the British literature ” . In School Effectiveness: research, policy and practice , Edited by: Reynolds , D. and Cuttance , P. London : Cassell .
   Google Scholar
• Reynolds , D. 1994 . “ School effectiveness and quality in education ” . In Improving Education , Edited by: Ribbins , P. and Burridge , E. London : Cassell .
   Google Scholar
• Reynolds , D. and Farrell , S. 1996 . Worlds Apart , London : OFSTED .
   Google Scholar
• Reynolds , D. , Creemers , B. , Nesselrodt , P.S. , Schaffer , E.C. , Stringfield , S. and Teddlie , C. 1994 . Advances in School Effectiveness Research and Practice , Oxford : Pergamon .
   Google Scholar
• Reynolds , D. , Sammons , P. , Stoll , L. , Barber , M. and Hillman , J. 1996 . School effectiveness and school improvement in the United Kingdom . School Effectiveness and School Improvement , 7 : 133 – 158 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rutter , M. , Maughan , B. , Mortimore , P. and Ouston , J. 1979 . Fifteen Thousand Hours: secondary schools and their effects on children , London : Open Books .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. 1995 . Gender, ethnic and socio‐economic differences in attainment and progress: a longitudinal analysis of student achievement over 9 years . British Educational Research Journal , 21 : 465 – 485 .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. 1996 . Complexities in the judgement of school effectiveness . Educational Research & Evaluation , 2 : 113 – 149 .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. , Nuttall , D. and Cuttance , P. 1993 . Differential school effectiveness: results from a reanalysis of the Inner London Education Authority's Junior School Project data . British Educational Research Journal , 19 : 381 – 405 .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. , Thomas , S. , Mortimore , P. , Owen , C. and Pennell , H. 1994 . Assessing School Effectiveness: developing measures to put school performance in context , London : OFSTED .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. , Huxman , J. and Mortimore , P. 1995a . Key Characteristics of Effective Schools: a review of school effectiveness research , London : OFSTED .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. , Thomas , S. and Mortimore , P. Accounting for variations in academic effectiveness between schools and departments: results from the ‘Differential Secondary School Effectiveness Project'‐‐a three year study of GCSE performance . paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research/BERA Annual Conference . September 14‐17 1995 , Bath . (submitted to Research Papers in Education)
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. , Thomas , S. and Mortimore , P. Towards a model of academic effectiveness for secondary schools . paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Educational Research Association . September 1996 . Lancaster University .
   Google Scholar
• Sammons , P. , Mortimore , P. and Hillman , J. 1996b . Key characteristics of effective schools: a response to ‘Peddling feel‐good fictions’ . Forum , 38 : 88 – 90 .
   Google Scholar
• Scheerens , J. 1992 . Effective Schooling: research, theory and practice , London : Cassell .
   Google Scholar
• Silver , H. 1994 . Good Schools, Effective Schools: judgements and their histories , London : Cassell .
   Google Scholar
• Smith , D.J. and Tomlinson , S. 1989 . The School Effect: a study of multi‐racial comprehensives , London : Policy Studies Institute .
   Google Scholar
• Thomas , S. and Goldstein , H. 1995 . Questionable value . Education , 185 : 17
   Google Scholar
• Tizard , B. , Blatchford , P. , Burke , J. , Farquhar , C. and Plewis , I. 1988 . Young Children at School in the Inner City , Hove : Lawrence Erlbaum .
   Google Scholar