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Cain, Tim – Research Papers in Education, 2017
Internationally, efforts are being made for educational practice to be research-informed on the grounds that schoolteachers will implement what research shows will "work". However, teachers do not necessarily accept research findings; sometimes they contest them. This article considers teachers' contestation in two empirical studies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Evidence, Research Utilization
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Harris, Alma; Chapman, Christopher; Muijs, Daniel; Reynolds, David – School Leadership & Management, 2013
Educational effectiveness research (EER) has accumulated much knowledge in the areas of school effectiveness research (SER), teacher effectiveness research (TER) and school/system improvement research (SSIR). Yet many schools and educational systems are not making enough use of the material and their insights. The article reviews evidence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
Mahoney, James – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The educational surveys of which some account is given in this bulletin do not by any means represent all the foreign investigations that have been made; it is believed, however, that they will serve to acquaint American students of education with certain foreign types, and at the same time throw some light on the history of surveys and of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Policy Formation