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Using the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement to Promote Quality and Equity in Education: A European Study
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Charalambous, Evi; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Antoniou, Panayiotis; Devine, Dympna; Papastylianou, Dona; Fahie, Declan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
This paper presents the results of a European study investigating the extent to which the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement (DASI) can help schools situated in socially disadvantaged areas to improve their effectiveness. At the beginning of the school year 2015-2016, a sample of 72 primary schools in four European countries (Cyprus, England,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Schools
Improving the School Learning Environment to Reduce Bullying: An Experimental Study
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Papastylianou, Dona; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
A framework based on research on bullying and on educational effectiveness was offered to schools to assist them in developing strategies and actions to improve their learning environment, their policy for teaching, and their evaluation mechanisms in order to reduce bullying. At the beginning and end of the intervention, the Revised Olweus…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Bullying, Peer Relationship, Questionnaires
Testing the Validity of the Dynamic Model at School Level: A European Study
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Panayiotou, Anastasia; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. – School Leadership & Management, 2016
This European project investigates the impact of the school factors included in the dynamic model of educational effectiveness on student achievement. In each participating country (Belgium/Flanders, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland and Slovenia), a sample of at least 50 schools was drawn and tests in mathematics and science were administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Models
Using the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness to Design Strategies and Actions to Face Bullying
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Muijs, Daniel; Rekers-Mombarg, Lyset; Papastylianou, Dona; Van Petegem, Peter; Pearson, Diana – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
This project investigates the impact of the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) aiming to help schools face and reduce bullying through integrating research on bullying with educational effectiveness research (EER). A network of approximately 15 schools in each participating country (i.e., Belgium, Cyprus, England, Greece, and The…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Change Strategies
School Policy on Teaching and School Learning Environment: Direct and Indirect Effects upon Student Outcome Measures
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
School policy on teaching and the school learning environment (SLE) are the main school factors of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness (Creemers & Kyriakides, 2008). A longitudinal study in which 50 primary schools, 108 classes, and 2369 students participated generated evidence supporting the validity of the dynamic model. This…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Educational Environment