A science in the service of an art? : the use of 'value added' analyses of school performance to aid school improvement

The thesis is concerned to explore whether and how ‘value added’ data analyses can contribute to school improvement, and to identify some of the conditions under which this might be so. In the course of conducting the study, the author experienced a tension between the ‘research’ and the ‘developmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saunders, Lesley
Other Authors: Walford, Geoffrey
Published: University of Oxford 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367428