TY - T1 - A Circle of Research on Disadvantaged Schools, Improvement and Test-Based Accountability SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/321114 T3 - A1 - Huilla, Heidi A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - This study analyses how studies on disadvantaged schools, improvement and test-based accountability relate to each other. The analysis covers 69 studies on disadvantaged schools reported in prestigious educational journals and conducted in 1995–2015. Educational policies related to evaluation and accountability define the official goals of schooling, and the aim in this article is to analyse how the chosen studies discuss these educational policies and understand school success and failure. The ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 516 Educational sciences; Accountability; disadvantaged schools; school improvement; EDUCATIONAL-INEQUALITY; IMPROVING SCHOOLS; FAILING SCHOOLS; SOCIAL-CLASS; POLITICS; TEACHERS; ENGLISH; QUALITY; MIDDLE; ACHIEVEMENT N1 - PP - ER -