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Factors That Influence School Effectiveness

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School effectiveness in the started in the golden era in the 19702 for the sociology of education, according to Angus (1993; 334), where the focus was on educational equity. School effectiveness moves away from the school improvement model, which Creemers (2005; 359) identifies it as a theory “more directed to finding out what works in education and why”. Wikeley (2005; 355) believes that school effectiveness is concerned with “identifying the elements that make schools achieve their goals”. From the beginning, Creemers (2005; 359) believes that a “major aim of the school effectiveness movement was to link theory and empirical research relating to effectiveness and the improvement of education”. With school effectiveness using research …show more content…

Angus (1993; 335) deems that the core of school effectiveness research is “to identify techniques and procedures that can be applied directly in any educational or management situation”. According to Brown (1995; 6) emphasis is made that “school effectiveness research offers policymakers the engaging prospect of being able to identify the characteristics of effective schools and then make use of these findings to bring about improvements in less effective

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