Anna-Katharina Praetorius
University of Zurich, Switzerland
SIG Coordinator
Coordinators
Mission Statement
What does SIG 18 stand for?
Everyone would agree: Education matters! But what makes education effective and how can we improve it? Which ways can be employed to measure its effectiveness and improvement? SIG 18 provides a forum for discussing approaches related to answering such questions. We are researchers from different disciplines all over the world and are conducting research related to all educational settings using a variety of research methods. Examples of topics we are interested in are:
- Developing and testing frameworks, models, and theories of what constitutes high quality teaching and schooling
- Finding ways to measure teaching quality aspects from different perspectives
- Linking educational effectiveness and improvement
- Improving teaching quality and schooling based on interventions
- Developing and applying adequate measurement approaches for complex educational processes Evaluating schools and educational systems
- Analyzing how schools develop over time
What activities does SIG 18 pursue?
- Organizing the SIG18 conference and the SIG18 JURE pre-conference biannually
- Holding symposia at different conferences (e.g., EARLI, AERA, ICSEI, ECER)
- Authoring and editing special issues and books
- Implementing innovative formats for discussing hot topics
What do you get as a member of SIG 18?
- Regular newsletters with SIG 18 specific information (e.g., members, publications) and information about the EARLI network in general
- Opportunities for discussing hot topics with the community interested in educational effectiveness and improvement
- Invitations to participate in symposia, special issues, and edited books
Please note that since autumn 2020, SIG 18 consists of the former SIG 18 Educational Effectiveness and SIG 23 Educational Accountability and Improvement.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at any time: SIG18@earli.org
Upcoming Events
SIG 18 Conference 2024
- Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
- Date: 23 - 25 August 2024
- Theme: Promoting Educational Quality - The Contribution of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement Research
- Conference website
- Call for papers
Past Conferences
2022 (SIG 18)
- Theme: Diversity and inclusion as challenges for educational effectiveness and improvement
- Date: September 5-7 2022
- Place: Freiburg, Germany
- Conference website
2020 (SIG 18 + 23) (postponed because of COVID-19; rescheduled to 2022)
- Theme: Diversity and inclusion as challenges for educational effectiveness and improvement
- Date: September 7-9 2020
- Place: Freiburg, Germany
2018 (SIG 18 + 23)
- Theme: Instructional Design and Technology for 21st century learning: Challenges, Solutions, & Future Direction
- Date: 28 - 31 August 2018
- Place: Groningen, Netherlands
2016 (SIG 18 + 23)
- Theme: Closing the Gaps? Differential Accountability and Effectiveness as a Road to School Improvement
- Date: 26 - 30 September 2016
- Place: Oslo, Norway
2014 (only SIG 18)
- Theme: Marrying rigour and relevance: towards effective education for all
- Date: 27 - 29 August 2014
- Place: Southampton, UK
2014 (only SIG 23)
- Theme: The governance of school development in relation to accountability and evaluation systems
- Date: 10 - 12 November 2014
- Place: Bielefeld, Germany
2012 (only SIG 18)
- Theme: From Theory to Theory. Empirical Analyses in Relation to Theoretical Models of Educational Effectiveness
- Date: 29-31 August 2012
- Place: Zurich, Switzerland
2010 (only SIG 18)
- Theme: Educational Effectiveness: Models, Methods and Applications
- Date: 25-27 August, 2010
- Place: Leuven, Belgium
2008 (only SIG 18)
- Theme: Educational Effectiveness: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Educational Research
- Date: 28–30 August 2008
- Place: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Previous Coordinators
Previous coordinators of the former SIG 18 “Educational Effectiveness”
A special note of thanks to all previous SIG 18 coordinators
2021 - 2023
- Charalambos Charalambous (until August 2022)
- Tobias Feldhoff (until August 2022)
- Anna-Katharina Praetorius
- Jerich Faddar
- Hannah Bijlsma
2019 - 2021
- Charalambos Charalambous
- Anna-Katharina Praetorius
- Hannah Bijlsma
- Saskia Opalinski
2017 - 2019
- Wolfram Rollet
- Charalambos Charalambous
- Saskia Opalinski
2015 - 2017
- Daniel Muijs
- Wolfram Rollet
- Ariel Lindorff - Vinjayendran
2013 - 2015
- Leonidas Kyriakides
- Daniel Muijs
- Ioulia Televantou
2011 - 2013
- Pam Sammons
- Leonidas Kyriakides
- Mechteld Van Kuijk
2009 - 2011
- Eckhard Klieme
- Pam Sammons
- Ioulia Televantou
2007 - 2009 (founded)
- Jan Van Damme
- John Ainley
Previous coordinators of the former SIG 23 “Accountability and Improvement”
A special note of thanks to all previous SIG 23 coordinators
2019 - 2020
- Tobias Feldhoff
- Jerich Faddar
2017 - 2019
- Tobias Feldhoff
- Bernardita Munoz Chereau
- Jerich Faddar
2015 - 2017
- Melanie Ehren
- Katharina Maag-Merki
- Yolanda Gana-Galarce
2013 - 2015
- Melanie Ehren
- Katharina Maag-Merki
- Bernardita Munoz-Chereau
2013 (founded)
- Melanie Ehren
- Katharina Maag-Merki