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Specificity of portfolios in teacher education: a comparison with portfolios in other educational programmes within secondary, higher and adult education University of Antwerp
Integrated STEM Education: A Systematic Review of Instructional Practices in Secondary Education Hasselt University University of Antwerp KU Leuven
The shortage of graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), has led to numerous attempts to increase students' interest in STEM. One emerging approach that has the potential to improve students' motivation for STEM is integrated STEM education. Nonetheless, the implementation of this new instructional strategy is not straightforward due to the lack of consensus about instructional practices in integrated STEM. This ...
Educating teens about the risks on social network sites: an intervention study in secondary education Ghent University
The growing popularity of social network sites (SNS) is causing concerns about privacy and securi-ty, especially with regard to teenagers since they show various forms of unsafe behavior on SNS. Media literacy emerges as a priority, and researchers, teachers, parents and teenagers all point towards the responsibility of the school to educate teens about risks on SNS and to teach young-sters how to use SNS safely. However, existing educational ...
Enhancing the educational and social efficiency of the transition between primary and secondary education. innovations for the field (transbaso) University of Antwerp
Transbaso is an innovative valorization and research project for the Flemish education context. That school and study orientation processes are socially biased is well documented. Each selective moment in the educational career of children acts as a social threshold. One of the first crucial thresholds in the Flemish system is the transition from primary to secondary education. However, little is known about these processes themselves and about ...
Student work during secondary education, educational achievement, and later employment: a dynamic approach KU Leuven University of Antwerp Ghent University
This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes as discrete choices, while correcting for these outcomes’ unobserved determinants. Using unique longitudinal Belgian data, we find that pupils who work during the summer holidays are more likely to be ...
Long-term effects of primary schools on educational positions of students two and four years after the start of secondary education KU Leuven
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Although the importance of primary schools in the long term is of interest in educational effectiveness research, few studies have examined the long-term effects of schools over the past decades. In the present study, long-term effects of primary schools on the educational positions of students 2 and 4 years after starting secondary education are investigated. Moreover, it is ...
Educational objectives for the technological subject for primary and lower secondary education in Flanders KU Leuven
This paper presents an overview of the objectives used in teaching the technological subject in primary and lower secondary education in Flanders (Belgium).