Educational Effectiveness Research in Mainland China

This study is a part of an important educational research project entitled (JG11ZD03) in China. It focuses on classifying and analyzing the educational effectiveness research (EER) at different levels in mainland China. Since the establishment of the China Educational Effectiveness Research Association in 2005, EER has attracted more and more attention from the policymakers, scholars, experts, school administrators and practitioners in mainland China. From then on, educational effectiveness research is developing very quickly. This paper tried to collect and overview all the researches that were carried out in the field of EER in mainland China from 2006 to 2010. It has revealed the status quo, the influences, the problems and the important findings in EER in China. It has analyzed the key issues, summed up three EER features and for the first time revealed the whole picture of the educational effectiveness research in mainland China. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.