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Maslowski, Ralf; Doolaard, Simone; Bosker, Roel J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
This paper tries to depict important elements of the professional career of Bert P.M. Creemers. Starting from his early work on teaching styles and its effects on students' initial reading, it is shown that there are consistent patterns in his work. These come to the fore in his widely cited "The Effective Classroom" (1994) but also in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Evidence
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Scheerens, Jaap; Bosker, Roel J.; Creemers, Bert P. M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2001
School-effectiveness research (SER) has an instrumental orientation. Although critics claim otherwise, SER researchers usually consider students'"innate" background characteristics when studying schools. Theory formation, foundational issues, and research viability are being addressed. The field is definitely alive and kicking, despite…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries