Academics' papers presented at international school effectiveness conference
Southampton Education School had a strong presence at the four-day International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement conference, held at the University of Lund at the beginning of January.
The International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) is the leading conference for researchers working in the field of educational effectiveness and improvement, and is help at a different location each year. It is considered to be one of the more prestigious peer-reviewed international conferences in education.
A major keynote paper was presented and published on the conference website on the State of the Art on research on creating an impact of research in the field on education policy and practice: Lost in Translation? – The Limited International Take Up of Educational Effectiveness Research (EER), Teacher Effectiveness Research (TER) and School/System Improvement Research (SSIR) by Practitioners and Policymakers. Authors of this paper were
David Reynolds
and
Daniel Muijs
, along with non-Southampton colleagues Alma Harris (London) and Chris Chapman (Manchester).
Southampton Education School staff also had papers accepted and presented on the following topics:
- Data use across educational levels – The interplay between system, city, school and class level - Kim Schildkamp (the Netherlands) and Chris Downey (SES)
- The English Baccalaureate performance indicator: setting a school performance bar in order to achieve curriculum policy reform (Chris Downey, Priya Khambaita , Daniel Muijs, Tony Kelly )
- Towards Franchising in Education? An Empirical Investigation Of Chains of Academies in England. (Daniel Muijs, Chris Chapman, David Reynolds)
- ‘Coopetition’ in education? A case study of collaboration in a competitive environment (Daniel Muijs, Natasha Rumyantseva )
The conference attracted delegates from over 40 countries from across all continents, allowing plenty of opportunities to share and discuss research from others around the world and increasing the profile of Southampton Education School internationally.