New Directions for School Effectiveness Research: Towards School Effectiveness Without Schools |
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| Authors: | Daniel Muijs |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Manchester School of Education, Oxford Road, M13 4PL Manchester, UK |
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| Abstract: | School effectiveness research has made a number of valuable contributions to educational research over the past three decades. However, its validity is threatened by a number of evolutions that question the continuing centrality of its basic research object, the public school. Moves towards more flexible school organization such as networks of schools, a broader role for schools reconceptualized as community centers, the emergence of new providers outwith the public sector, the increasingly internationalised nature of research and moves towards greater use of distance learning and home schooling all mean that this focus may rapidly become outdated, potentially making school effectiveness research irrelevant.In this paper we will discuss the consequences of these evolutions for school effectiveness research and argue that, rather than lessening the need for effectiveness research, they increase the imperative for this type of research, as long as it is broadened to educational effectiveness in its broadest sense whether it takes place in the traditional public school or not, and is conducted in an empirical and open-minded way. |
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| Keywords: | education policy educational change educational research school effectiveness |
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