School Effectiveness And Students’ Academic Achievement

School Effectiveness Studies show that school effectiveness factors can also
determine the academic performance and the academic achievement of
students. Nyagosia et al. (2013) studied the relationship between school
effectiveness factors and academic performance in Kenya, and tried to
examine how the implementation of the correlates of effectiveness influenced
the academic performance of students. They selected seven correlates
formulated by Lezotte (2010 as cited in Nyagosia et al 2013: p.2) are
‘instructional leadership, focus on school mission, school safety and
orderliness, expectations for success, home-school relations, monitoring
students’ progress, and opportunity to learn’. Moreover, the findings of
school effectiveness studies in Kenya by Nyagosia (2013: p.9) point out that
‘the data analysis showed that seven correlates are good predictors of
academic performance in Kenyan schools and the results showed that, in
comparison with low achieving schools, high performing schools were
putting more emphasis on six of the seven correlates with only frequent
monitoring of students’ progress returning no significant results’.