List of Contributors

Preface and Introduction

Part One: The Research Inheritance

Do schools perform consistently across outcomes and areas?

Pam Sammons

Peter Mortimore

Sally Thomas

Towards a theory for school improvement

David Hopkins

Linking school effectiveness and school improvement: issues and possibilities

Louise Stoll

Monitoring school effectiveness: simplicity and complexity

Carol Fitz-Gibbon

Part Two: Some Recent Evidence from the Field

Possibilities and problems of small-scale studies to unpack the findings of large-scale studies of school effectiveness

Sally Brown

Sheila Riddell

Jill Duffield

Theories, models and simulations: school effectiveness at an impasse

Peter Tymms

School autonomy and school improvement

Tony Bush

Turning around ineffective schools: some evidence and some Speculations

David Reynolds

Conclusions: Facing up to the Challenge of Securing Improvement

The challenges of school improvement: preparing for the long haul

John Gray

David Jesson

David Reynolds

Name Index

Subject Index