The influence of school size, leadership, evaluation, and time on student outcomes

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School effectiveness research addresses the question why and how some schools are more effective than others when the differences in achievement cannot be attributed to student intake and educational background characteristics. A main aim is to identify and investigate those malleable conditions at different levels –classroom, school and above school– that can directly or indirectly explain the differences in the learning outcomes of students. As from the early phases of school effectiveness research there was a great interest in reviews and later also meta-analyses that compile the start-of the art knowledge and show evidence on factors that are associated with better student achievement. The dissertation builds on these previous reviews and meta-analyses and it consists of four reviews and meta-analyses of effectiveness enhancing factors at school and/or classroom level: school size, school leadership, evaluation and assessment and time and homework. Depending on the data available i

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