List of Papers/Detailed Abstracts Available

Refereed Papers *

*Rochelle Abramowitz: A Case Study Of Planning And Implementing Whole-School Reform At A Middle School

*Francisca Aladejana and Cecilia Odejobi: Actualizing the Effective Learning of Science in a Globalized World: The Place of the Nigerian Indigenous Science

*Jo Ann Bamdas, Valerie Bryan and Enid Conley: Participatory Action Research: Adult Literacy Tutors

*Lorenzo Cherubini: Beginning Teachers' Sphere of Influence: Honouring the Diversity of the Student-Learner

*Charles Dukes and Kavin Ming: Fostering Cultural Competence through School-Based Routines

*Chorng-Jee Guo: A Holistic and Systematic Scheme for Planning Reforms on Multicultural Science Education

*Lurana Case Hillard and Lucy Madsen Guglielmino: Promoting Reading Improvement: A Case Study of Exemplary Elementary Principals

*Philomena Marinaccio and Kristi Ayers: Action Research in a Graduate Reading Program

*Alexis O. Miranda, Linda D. Webb, Greg A. Brigman, and Paul R. Peluso: Student Success Skills: A Promising Program to Close the Academic Achievement Gap between African American and Latino, and White Students

*Padmini Nagesh Pai: Life Skills Education for School Effectiveness & Improvement

*Saroj Pandey : Para Teacher Scheme and Quality Education for All in India : The Policy Perspectives and Challenges for School Effectiveness

*Bianca Prather-Jones: The Role of Personal Characteristics and Job Support in Retaining Teachers of Students with Emotional and Behavior Disorders

*Josefina Quintero and Odilia Ramírez Contreras: An Action Research Project with Beginning Teachers in Colombia South
America

*LaTefy Schoen: Awareness of Socio-cultural Influences on Teachers and the Quest for Excellence

*Hechuan Sun, Rob de Jong and Bert Creemers: Effective School Improvement in the Netherlands

*Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart, and Sofka Barreau: Social Class Differences in the Effects of Pre-school on Children's Academic Performance at Age 7

*Oskars Zids: New and Old Paradigms of Educational Management in Latvia 's Context

*Linda A. Catelli: A Perspective on Creating Sustainable Partnerships: Critical Elements of Holistic School-University Partnerships

Non-Refereed Papers

Panayiotis Angelides: Implementing a co-teaching model for improving schools

Panayiotis Angelides: Building collaborative networks for improving student teachers' practice

Dorothy Bedford, Coleen R. Jackson and Elizabeth Wilson : New Partnerships for Learning: investigating relationships between Teachers and Teaching Assistants

Susannah Brown: Fusing the Muses

Saad Chahine: Risking validity: The use of course marks as school effectiveness indicators

Sharmistha Das: School Culture: does awareness matter?

Daryl. L. Diamond, W. John Hardman, Lori N. Kijanka and Steven M. Urdegar: Taking reform to scale in the K-12 public schools of a large urban district in South Florida, United States , applying the inquiry cycle supported on the principles of action learning and the model of ‘train-the-trainer'.

Judy Durrant: Planning, Tracking and Evaluating Impact: towards an integrated approach

Madza Ednir, Claudia Ceccon, Boudewijn van Velzen: High pressure school reform in Brazil : The case of ‘the difficult schools'

Kit Field: The developing concept of ‘Impact' in the context of Postgraduate Professional Development

Timothy Forde and Heraldo Richards: Professional Development for Teachers in an Era of Technology and Diversity

David Frost: Why is the concept of agency so important in Leadership for Learning?

Alma Harris and Pat Thomson: Leading schools in poor communities: What do we know and how do we know it?

Jess House and Kin-Yuen Ip: Two Systems of Principal Certification: Convergent or Local Policies?

Thomas F. Kelly: Using Deming's Organizational Principles to Assess and Guide Education Reform Policy

Agnes Kiviet: Science Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Selected South African Schools and Their Implications for Professional Practice

Patricia Linder and Marilyn Kline: Measuring the Effectiveness of a Professional Development Initiative

Patricia Bowens McCarthy, Helene R. Murtha, Elsa-Sofia Morote and Stephanie L. Tatum: Does Gender influence teachers' attitudes towards acquiring multicultural competence?

Lejf Moos, John Krejsler & Klaus Kasper Kofod: Successful Leadership as Distributed Leadership - Danish experiences with new systems of governance

Daniel Muijs: New Directions for School Effectiveness Research: Towards School Effectiveness without Schools

Daniel Muijs & Geoff Lindsay: Evaluating Continuing Professional Development: Testing Guskey's Model in the UK

Pentti Nikkanen and Jouni Välijärvi: In Quest of Balance Between School Effectiveness and Improvement Activities: The International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback (ISTOF) and Finnish Country Perspective

Matthew Ninan: School Climate and its Impact on School Effectiveness: A case study

Jim O'Brien, Deirdre Torrance and Tony van der Kuyl: Early indicators of leadership potential

Nicholas S.K. Pang: Managing School Change through Self-evaluation in the Era of Globalization

Robin Precey: Evaluating Impact and Informing Practice: Developing and Applying an Impact Framework in International Contexts

Timothy Rodriguez: Homogeneous Instruction: It's Impact on ELL students in a Transitional Bilingual Program

Robert Shockley, Paul Guglielmino and Eliah Watlington: The Costs of Teacher Attrition

Susan Skipper: Conceptual Framework for Effective Inclusive Schools

Olga Treep and Ineke Ginjaar: Policy on Language teaching at Inner City Schools of Rotterdam

Jerry W. Valentine: A Comprehensive, Systemic Change Initiative for Middle Level School

G.H. van den Hoven and J.C. Voogt: Report from the Dutch most recent Developments on real Educational Reform.

Jan Vanhoof and Peter Van Petegem: Predicting the quality of school self evaluations?

Sally Walker: Assessment For Learning

Tim Waters & Sally Grubb: Leading Schools: Distinguishing the Essential from the Important

PowerPoint Presentations

Jo Ann Bamdas, Valerie Bryan and Enid Conley: Participatory Action Research: Adult Literacy Tutors

Bert Creemers, L. Kyriakides, D. Demetriou and P. Antoniou: A Critical Analysis of the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness based on a Synthesis of Studies Investigating the Impact of School Factors on Student Achievement Gains

Larry Decker and Pam Brown: Community Education: A global roundup

Judith Gardiner and Chris Tom: Bringing Together School Effectiveness and Accountability

Sue Goodwin: Community Education: An Australian Contemporary Perspective

Alma Harris: Exploring collaborative relationships between schools in Urban contexts.

Alma Harris and Pat Thomson: Leading schools in poor communities: What do we know and how do we know it?

Leonidas Kyriakides and Bert Creemers: Using Different Approaches to Measure the School and Teacher Long-term Effect: A Longitudinal Study on Primary Student Achievement in Mathematics

Leonidas Kyriakides, Bert Creemers, Daniel Muijs, & John Lee: Identifying Components of Effective Teaching across Countries: The Main Results of the First Phase of the ISTOF

Leonidas Kyriakides & Hans Luyten: Using Different Methodological Approaches and Criteria to Measure the Effect of Schooling: Implications for the Development of Educational Effectiveness Research

Shereeza Mohammed and John Pisapia: State Factors Affecting Implementation Planning of the Scientific Based Research Components of the NCLB Act

*Josefina Quintero and Odilia Ramírez Contreras: An Action Research Project with Beginning Teachers in Colombia South
America

*LaTefy Schoen Awareness of Socio-cultural Influences on Teachers and the Quest for Excellence

Glenn Thomas, Marla Lee-Brady, Ira Bogotch, Dianne Wright, Terry Watson: Innovative High School to University Acceleration Mechanisms: A Case Study including Policy, Application and Research Perspectives

G.H. van den Hoven and Louise Stoll: Real educational reform needs a new concept for change! Towards a fundamental different approach: validating a theory based external support strategy for educational change!?

*Presentation based on a Refereed Paper