Projects
The effectiveness of a modern educational intervention for pain and pain-related disability after breast cancer surgery. University of Antwerp
GO ALL for learning! Strengthening shared educational and transformational leadership through learning communities aimed at preventing and remedying learning disabilities University of Antwerp
Strengthening the policy on wellbeing in schools: development of scientifically based policy interventions Ghent University
A policy related to wellbeing that focuses on psychosocial aspects of work in schools is necessary. However, school leaders need support to realise this. This project aims to provide this support in the form of instruments that can be used to stimulate wellbeing in schools (primary en secondary education) and that are linked to strategic human resource management in schools.
SONO Support Center policy-oriented educational research Ghent University
The role of peer effects in dynamic discrete choice models: with applications to technology adoption and educational choice KU Leuven
Forward looking behavior is important in many contexts. Investors pay a cost today, hoping to receive a return in the future. Students are willing to study hard, hoping this will lead to better jobs. At the same time, these individual choices can have repercussions for society as a whole. Investments in green technologies slow down climate change. Highly educated students earn higher wages and therefore provide more tax income and depend ...
Citizenship: a matter of schooling? An educational inquiry into the normativity of citizenship education KU Leuven
Over the last three decades, the promotion of citizenship education (CE) in schools has received renewed and abundant attention on both national and international educational agendas. This stressing of the importance of CE in schools often appears to be paired with a rather self-evident manner of approaching the role of schools in CE and the relationship between education and citizenship. Descriptions or justifications of the choices ...
Effectiveness of educational priority policies KU Leuven
Educational priority policies (EPP) are defined as various forms of positive (needs-based) discrimination in the funding of schools for additional investments targeted at socially disadvantaged students. The aim of the research is to estimate the impact of (changes in) EPP on educational equality by means of country-level fixed-effects models (based mainly on PISA 2000-2015, and possibly also on TIMSS, LFS, PIAAC data). Whereas a first ...