Professor Sally Thomas

Research summary

Improving Educational Evaluation and Quality in China (IEEQC) https://ieeqc.bristol.ac.uk

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Biography

Sally Thomas is Professor in education at the Graduate School and she has conducted and led academic research studies for over twenty years.  Previously she was an Associate Director and founding member of the International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre at the London Institute of Education, and has also worked at University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

Her main publications are on different aspects of educational quality, which have examined a variety of factors, indicators and processes related to school and institutional effectiveness and improvement (both in UK and abroad).  In particular she has carried out extensive ...

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Selected publications

• Peng, W, McNess, EM, Thomas, SM, Wu, XR, Zhang, C, Li, JZ & Tian, HS 2013, ‘Emerging perceptions of teacher quality and teacher development in China’. International Journal of Educational Development (IJED).
• Thomas, S, Kyriakides, [VL & Tony, T 2013, ‘Educational Effectiveness Research in New and Emerging Contexts (Chapter 16)’. in: Christopher Chapman, Daniel Muijs, David Reynolds, Pam Sammons, Charles Teddlie (eds) The International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness: Research, Policy and Practice. Routledge

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