Methodological and scientific properties of School Effectiveness Research: exploring the underpinnings, evolution and future directions of the field

This chapter examines the origins, methodological properties, and evolution of school effectiveness research (SER), and the broader and more recent focus of educational effectiveness research (EER), over the last half century. It provides a brief overview of the main disciplinary roots and examines the essential features that underpin the two fields. It also seeks to identify some of the key features of more recent work, conducted in the twenty-first century, showing how the field has evolved since the publication of the first international handbook in 2000 (Teddlie and Reynolds, 2000)