Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research (Quantitative Methodology Series)

✍ Scribed by Bert P.M. Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides, Pam Sammons

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Series: Quantitative Methodology Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research is an important new work by some of the leading researchers in the field of Educational Effectiveness Research (EER). The book provides a state of the art snapshot of the methodology of EER now and clearly demonstrates the way it is applied in both research and evaluation. It shows how developments in the research methodology area such as the use of multilevel modelling approaches to analyse nested data have promoted the knowledge-base of educational effectiveness. But at the same time, as the authors show, the knowledge-base of educational effectiveness and the attempt to establish theoretical models do paradoxically challenge the development of methodologically appropriate studies including ways of analysing data. Guiding readers though the effective and appropriate use in educational effectiveness of: Longitudinal Studies Experimental Studies Mixed Research Methods Meta-analyses of effectiveness studies Using IRT to measure outcomes and factors Using Generalisability Theory to test the quality of data Multilevel modelling , and Structural Equation Modelling Techniques The authors draw in the expertise of scholars from around the world to show the mathematical background of each technique, the current and future applications, and Specific examples of applying this orientation to help the readers design their own effectiveness studies using specific methodological tools.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
PART A
The state of the art of Educational Effectiveness
Research: challenges for research methodology......Page 17
Background to Educational Effectiveness Research......Page 19
Methodological issues in Educational Effectiveness Research......Page 35
Theory and research......Page 53
Theory-driven evaluation studies......Page 75
PART B
The contribution of different methodological
orientations: the development of educational
effectiveness research......Page 91
Longitudinal designs......Page 93
Experimental studies in education......Page 118
Applications of mixed methods to the field of Educational Effectiveness Research......Page 131
Using Item Response Theory to measure outcomes and factors......Page 169
IRT models......Page 199
Using Generalizability Theory......Page 235
Multilevel modelling......Page 262
Structural Equation Modelling techniques......Page 293
Meta-analyses of effectiveness studies......Page 319
PART C
Methodological advances and EER: retrospect and
prospect......Page 341
Conclusions for the development of EER......Page 343
Appendices to Chapter 10......Page 364
Appendices to Chapter 12......Page 367
Index......Page 369