Teacher Quality and School Effectiveness

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2. SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS

In recent years, the quality of education became both a subject of scientific inquiry and an applied

field of interest in educational policy and management (Bosker & Scheerens, 1989: 41-751 .

School effectiveness is defined by Sihono Yusof (2012: 142-152) as the ability of a school to reach

and maintain aims and objectives in the manner that it can been seen as an reflection on the

extent in which a school can achieve there function in the fields of technical and economics,

human and social, political, culture, and educational policy and management (Scheerens, 2013: 4).

School effectiveness is also defined by Scheerens (2000, 20) as the way in which schools

achieve there objectives by comparing themselves to other schools by way, of the number of

students and conditions which could influence achievement.

School effectiveness research was developed over a period of thirty years which lead to the global

community taking a positive stance towards education (Lakeforest.edu, 2010:1-3) Educators,

learners and parents became positive towards the quality of education, despite their

circumstances.The stakeholders began to work together to achieve the highest standards possible

namely school effectiveness .The characteristics of higher achieving schools were shared amongst

all (Lakeforest.edu, 2010:1-3).Through research certain characteristics were identified as being

indicators of school effectiveness.

These characteristics were identified as a school having strong educational

leadership, high expectations of student achievement,an emphasis on basic skills, safe and orderly

climate and the frequent evaluation of learner progress, these characteristics are also better

known as...

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