Good school, bad school : evaluating performance and encouraging improvement / [edited by] John Gray and Brian Wilcox. - xiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Assessing assessment . - Assessing assessment. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index.

Series editor's introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The quality of schooling: frameworks for judgement -- Developing LEA frameworks for monitoring and evaluation from research on school effectiveness -- HMI's interpretations of schools' examination results (with postscripts for the 1990s) -- Performance indicators: flourish or perish? -- Developing value-added approaches to school evaluation: the experiences of three LEAs -- Estimating differences in the examination performances of secondary schools in six LEAs: a multi-level approach to school effectiveness -- Inspection and school improvement: rhetoric and experience from the bridge -- Reactions to inspection: a study of three variants -- The methodologies of school inspection: issues and dilemmas -- The inspectors recommended...a follow-up study in six secondary schools -- The statistics of school improvement: establishing the agenda -- The challenge of turning round ineffective schools -- References -- Subject index -- Name index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Education--Evaluation--Great Britain
Educational accountability--Great Britain
School improvement programs--Great Britain
Educational change--Great Britain

LA632 / .G52 1995

370.941