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Assessing the Validity of the NCSL Evidence Base: A Critical Review of the Research Published by the College

Male, T; (2003) Assessing the Validity of the NCSL Evidence Base: A Critical Review of the Research Published by the College. Green open access

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Abstract

When details of the proposed internal organisation of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) were first published in 1999 the intention was for there to be three divisions: Programmes, E-learning and Research. The inclusion of a research division was a welcome signal, carrying with it the implicit expectation that there was to be, for the first time in this country, a serious attempt to build an evidence base for leadership development and training in education that was empirically informed – a development that would also have implications for policy making on school leadership issues on general. Prior to this the basis for policy determination and decision making based on research had been judged to be limited at best (Glatter, 1999: 254). By the time the NCSL began its work in September 2001 ‘school improvement’ had been added to the description of the division, thus widening its brief and signalling its intention to focus on those activities which led to changes at the school level. Subsequently the college reorganised its senior executive roles and, by September 2002, had changed the title for the division to Research and Development. The intention of this article is to explore some of the emergent and outstanding issues that are evident after the first two years of the division’s operation. Although it is recognised that there may be work in progress this review will only focus on the research findings published by the division.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Assessing the Validity of the NCSL Evidence Base: A Critical Review of the Research Published by the College
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Education, Research, NCSL
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472991
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