School, teaching, and system effectiveness: Some comments on three state-of-the-art reviews

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 282-290

  Scheerens, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

educational effectiveness; school effectiveness; school improvement; system level effectiveness; teaching effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894807130     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2014.885453     Document Type: Review

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