THE SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS KNOWLEDGE BASED AS A GUIDE

FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT.

DONE: BY GUSTAVO BARBECHO.

DEFINITION:One main reason for this latter position is the fact that a lot stills needs to be done in a realm of making sense of the research knowledge of the school effectiveness in order to obtain a clear picture on its usefulness for school improvement.

CRITERIA AND MODES.The basic orientation refers to the extent to which education output or outcomes are influenced by malleable conditions. This conditions may be financial or material “inputs” or more complete activities and process in areas like school management the curriculum and teaching.

MECHANISMS AND LEVES OF SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS.

Theoretical redirection of in-school effectiveness thinking can be paraphrased as using available theory to deduct levers that, applied to a particular mode of schooling may explain why a particular factor is expected to increase the chance of the attainment of a particular effectiveness criterion.

RETROACTIVE PLANNING AND THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION.

Planning is likely to have more step by step incremental orientation and goals or expectations get the function of standards for interpreting evaluative information. The discrepancy between actual achievement and expectations creates the dynamics that could eventually lead to more effectiveness.

CONTINGENCY THEORY.Refer to as the situation approach or contingency approach is taken as the perspective from which the optimal structure of an organization is seen as dependent of a number of other factors or conditions.Contingency factors: Older organization Larger organization Dynamic organization The more sophisticated system

CHAOS THEORY.Concerned with the exploration of patterns emerging from apparently random events within a physical or social system, one of the basic principles is small causes may have large effects and that relatively minor variations in entrance conditions may have enormous consequences when interrelationships between phenomena develop over time.

THE LEVERAGE OF CULTURAL.Leverage of culture is a mode of school functioning rather than a mechanism, culture is the sense to share meanings, collective norms and view on interaction and collaboration, is of great importance in providing the normative glue that holds the organization together.

THE IMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE.Curriculum is less pronounced that was perhaps to be expected; in both overviews structural factors like monitoring, parent involvement, education leadership and cultural factors are about eventually represented. The overall assessment of the coverage of the school effectiveness knowledge base of the main aspects of the school functioning is that this coverage is sufficiently comprehensive.

CONCLUSIONS.Right now where governmental policies of decentralization in the financial and administrative domain put a certain premium of administrative school management, school effectiveness thinking provides a counter balance by emphasizing educational leadership.The modes of schooling that have received most emphasis in school effectiveness research are instruction and culture.

THEORIES, MECHANIMS AND LEVERS OF EFFECTIVE

SCHOOLING.THEORY. MECHANIMS. LEVERS.

Synoptic planning machine bureaucracy Proactive planning and control Programming/monitoring, structuring

Retroactive planning learning organization Cybernetic principle Evaluation and feedback

Public choice theory Market mechanism Choice competition

Contingency theory fit Organization design

Chaos theory Self-organization Laissez-faire serendipity

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