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School Size Effects: Review and Conceptual Analysis

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School Size Effects Revisited

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In this chapter, a review of international review studies on school size effects is presented. Next, ingredients of a more contextualized and tentative causal mediation model of school size effects are discussed. The chapter is completed by a short overview of school size effects as found in international comparative assessment studies and by a synthesis of Dutch empirical studies that have addressed school size effects, in terms of achievement and attainment outcomes, costs, social outcomes, and good teaching practice.

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    See http://pisa2009.acer.edu.au/downloads.php.

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    The data are derived from the TIMSS and PIRLS international database, see http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2011/international-database.html.

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    Jaap Scheerens, Maria Hendriks & Hans Luyten

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Scheerens, J., Hendriks, M., Luyten, H. (2014). School Size Effects: Review and Conceptual Analysis. In: School Size Effects Revisited. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06814-5_2

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