Measuring Innovation in Education

Do teachers innovate? Do they try different pedagogical approaches? Are
practices within classrooms and educational organisations changing? And to
what extent can change be linked to improvements? A measurement agenda is
essential to an innovation and improvement strategy in education. Measuring
Innovation in Educationoffers new perspectives on addressing the need for such
measurement.

This book’s first objective is informative: it gives readers new international
comparative information about innovation in education compared to other
sectors. And it documents change in a variety of dimensions of school
practices between 1999 and 2011. Its second objective is methodological: it
assesses two approaches to capturing the extent and type of innovation
occurring within and across education systems. The third objective is
exploratory: this book showcases a large-scale pilot that presents over 200
measures of innovation in education using existing international data. Last
but not least, the fourth objective is prospective: this report proposes new
approaches to measuring innovation in education in the future.

This book is the beginning of a new journey: it calls for innovations in the
field of measurement – and not just of education.

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