Projects
The expenditure of human resources for administrative, policy and educational support in primary and secondary schools Ghent University
The study analyzes the allocation policy of primary and secondary schools for the school resources related to policy support, administrative and pedagogical suppor. A survey and 30 case studies are used to analyze how the school resources are allocated for the school support, which factors influence this allocation and to which degree principals are satisfied with the clarity of the funding, the amount of resources and the freedom to allocate ...
Fostering personalized learning in primary schools through the use of learning analytics dashboards KU Leuven
Digital technologies can be used to achieve more adequate personalisation, but primary school teachers are often not guided and trained in the use of digital technologies and struggle to use the data these technologies offer. The proposed research project addresses this problem by investigating teachers' use of learning analytics dashboards. Learning analytics dashboards provide teachers with data about the learner and thus offer ...
Applications of learning analytics for primary and secondary schools KU Leuven
This dissertation investigates how learning analytics can be applied to primary and secondary school contexts. The possibilities of learning analytics has grown with the increasing application of educational technology in the classroom. Despite this, the implementations of learning analytics in K12 tend to focus on student optimizations and teacher dashboards. These implementations omit valuable stakeholders who could benefit from learning ...
Review indicators to enhance achievement, learning gains and well-being in primary schools KU Leuven
Review of indicators for improving student achievement, learning gains and school well-being in primary schools.
The results of this study were published in a book with the title 'Wat werkt?'
Agency and structure in practices of educational innovation. A description and analysis of implementation practices in primary and secondary schools. KU Leuven
Firstly, the diversity in implementation practices ...
Examination of dimensionality and predictors of verbal skills in Vietnamese children in preschools and primary schools Ghent University
Grant agreement for the administration, analysis and support of the diversity screening for education (DISCO) in Ghent primary and secondary schools Ghent University
Education Center Ghent supports, connects and inspires children and young people, parents (and other persons with educational responsibility), education professionals and their partners, so that children and young people have maximum development opportunities to participate fully to society. Education Center Ghent goes for life learning, high well-being and equal opportunities for all, and for the city as a broad learning and living ...
Social inequality at the transition from primary to secondary education: the role played by the primary school Ghent University
The aim of the project is to investigate whether characteristics of primary school contribute to the explanation of educational choices at the transition from primary to secondary education. Educational choices are usually explained by invoking ascribed and acquired characteristics of pupils. We want to contribute to the hiatus in research by adding charachteristics of the primarry school to the explanation.