Practitioners’ views of effectiveness

Brown M. Rutherford D. (1995) Successful Leadership for School Improvement in Areas of Urban Deprivation: A framework for development and research. Schools of Education, University of Manchester/University of Birmingham.

DFE (1992) Choice and Diversity: A New Framework for Schools, London: DFE.

Elliott J. (1996) School Effectiveness Research and its Critics: Alternative visions of schooling, Cambridge Journal of Education, 26, (2): 199–223.

Glover D. (1992) An investigation of criteria used by parents and community in judgement of school quality. Educational Research, 34, (1): 35–44.

Harris A. Jamieson I. Russ J. (1995) A Study of ‘Effective’ Departments in Secondary Schools, School Organisation, 15, (3): 283–299.

Hopkins D. (1994) School Improvement in an era of Change, Chap 6 in Ribbens P. Burridge E. (eds) Improving Education Promoting Quality in Schools, London: Cassell.

Mortimore P. Sammons P. Stoll L Lewis D. Ecob R. (1988) School Matters: The Junior Years, Wells: Open Books.

Reynolds D. (1995) The Effective School: An inaugural lecture, Evaluation and Research in Education, 9, (2): 57–73.

Reynolds P. Bollen R. Creemers B. Hopkins D. Stoll L. Lagerweij N. (eds) (1996) Making Good Schools: Linking school effectiveness and school improvement, London: Routledge.

Robertson P Sammons P (1997) Improving School Effectiveness: A project in progress, paper presented at the Tenth International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Memphis, Tennessee, 5–8 January 1997.

Sammons P. Hillman J. Mortimore P. (1995) Key Characteristics of Effective Schools: A review of school effectiveness research, London: Office for Standards in Education [OFSTED] and University of London, Institute of Education.

Sammons P. Thomas S. Mortimore P. (1997) Forging Links: Effective Schools and Effective Departments, London: Paul Chapman.

Stoll L. Fink D. (1996) Changing Our Schools: Linking school effectiveness and school improvement, Buckingham: Open University Press.

White J. (1997) Philosophical Perspectives on School Effectiveness Research, Chapter in Perspectives on School Effectiveness and School Improvement, London: Bedford Way Paper, Institute of Education, University of London.