Quality and Equity in Education draws attention to the importance of
developing and testing theories of educational effectiveness and using
these theories for improvement purposes. It makes a major contribution
to knowledge and theory building in research on promoting quality and
equity in education.
The book presents an improved version of the dynamic model of
educational effectiveness based on the empirical data emerged from
studies testing its validity, claiming that the proposed theory can be
used for establishing links between educational effectiveness research
and school improvement. Towards that end, the book presents the Dynamic
Approach to teacher and school improvement, demonstrating its impact on
quality and equity in education. The book not only proposes an agenda
for further research on developing and testing the dynamic theory of
educational effectiveness but also refers to research methods that can
be used to test the assumptions of this theory and search for relevant
cause and effect relations. The agenda also refers to the need of
identifying the conditions under which the dynamic approach to teacher
and school improvement can have an effect on student learning outcomes.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and
postgraduate students working in education research and the area of
quality and equity in education. It will also be of interest to
policymakers, school advisors and other stakeholders in education.
