Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research - Longitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed Methods and Their Relevance for Educational Accountability

1. Editorial, Introduction; A. Oude Groote Beverborg, K. Maag Merki, T. Feldhoff, & F. Radisch.

2. School Improvement Capacity - A Review and a Reconceptualisation from the Perspectives of Educational Effectiveness and Educational Policy; D. Reynolds & A. Neeleman.

3. Why must everything be so complicated? Demands and challenges on methods for analysing school improvement processes; T. Feldhoff & F. Radisch.

4. School improvement Capacity - theory and methodological challenges; K. Maag Merki.

5. Can lacking measurement invariance in school improvement research be interpreted?; M. Sauerwein & D. Theis.

6. The relationship between professional community practices and other school organizational and educational practices in 23 European countries; C. Lomos.

7. Reframing the nature of inquiry in educational leadership research; D. Ng F. S..

8. Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) as a methodological approach to assess school improvement processes; A. Oude Groote Beverborg, M. Wijnants, P.J.C. Sleegers, & T. Feldhoff.

9. Learning in collaboration: Exploring processes and outcomes through a mixed methods design; G. Devos & B. Vanblaere.

10. Group-actor-partnership-interdependence-model; K. Schudel.

11. The structure of leadership language: Rhetorical methods for studying instructional improvement; R. Lowenhaupt.

12. Designing and piloting a leadership daily practice log: Using logs to study the practice of leadership; J.P. Spillane & A. Zuberi.

13. Editorial, Discussion; A. Oude Groote Beverborg, K. Maag Merki, T. Feldhoff, & F. Radisch.