Chapter 1. Introduction (Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Tobias Feldhoff, Katharina Maag Merki, & Falk Radisch_ -- Chapter 2. Why must everything be so complicated? Demands and challenges on methods for analyzing school improvement processes (Tobias Feldhoff & Falk Radisch) -- Chapter 3. School Improvement Capacity - A Review and a Reconceptualisation from the Perspectives of Educational Effectiveness and Educational Policy (David Reynolds & Annemarie Neeleman) -- Chapter 4. The relationship between teacher professional community and participative decision-making in schools in 22 European countries (Catalina Lomos) -- Chapter 5. New Ways of Dealing with Lacking Measurement Invariance (Markus Sauerwein & Désirée Theis) -- Chapter 6. Taking Composition and Similarity Effects into Account: Theoretical and Methodological Suggestions for Analyses of Nested School Data in School Improvement Research (Kai Schudel & Katharina Maag Merki) -- Chapter 7. Reframing Educational Leadership Research in the 21st Century (David NG Foo Seong) -- Chapter 8. The structure of leadership language: rhetorical and linguistic methods for studying school improvement (Rebecca Lowenhaupt) -- Chapter 9. Designing and Piloting a Leadership Daily Practice Log: Using Logs to Study the Practice of Leadership (James P. Spillane & Anita Zuberi) -- Chapter 10. Learning in collaboration: Exploring processes and outcomes (Bénédicte Vanblaere & Geert Devos) -- Chapter 11. Recurrence Quantification Analysis as a methodological innovation for school improvement research (Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Maarten Wijnants, Peter J.C. Sleegers, & Tobias Feldhoff) -- Chapter 12. Regulation Activities of Teachers in Secondary Schools: Development of a Theoretical Framework and Exploratory Analyses in Four Secondary Schools Based on Time Sampling Data (Katharina Maag Merki, Urs Grob, Beat Rechsteiner, Andrea Wullschleger, Nathanael Schori, & Ariane Rickenbacher) -- Chapter 13. Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research: General Discussion and Outlook for Further Research (Tobias Feldhoff, Katharina Maag Merki, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, & Falk Radisch).
