Publicaties
A Tool for Assessing the Quality of Life of Adolescents in Youth Care: Psychometric Properties of the QOLYSS KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Item order and speededness: implications for test fairness in higher educational high-stakes testing KU Leuven
A common approach to increase test security in higher educational high-stakes testing is the use of different test forms with identical items but different item orders. The effects of such varied item orders are relatively well studied, but findings have generally been mixed. When multiple test forms with different item orders are used, we argue that the moderating role of speededness on item order effects cannot be neglected as missing ...
Mapping and explaining the second language gender gap across skills, countries and languages KU Leuven
Improving the measurement of environmental sensitivity in children and adolescents: The Highly Sensitive Child scale-21 item version KU Leuven
Children differ in their sensitivity to positive and negative environmental influences, which can be measured with the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale. The present study introduces the HSC-21, an adaptation of the original 12 item scale with new items and factor structure that are meant to be more informative than the original ones. The psychometric properties of the HSC-21 were investigated in 1,088 children across Belgium and the ...
Teachers' and school leaders' sensemaking of formal achievement data: A conceptual review KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
Formal achievement data such as test scores and school performance feedback from standardised assessments can be a powerful tool for data-based decision making and school improvement. However, teachers’ and school leaders’ usage of these data is not necessarily straightforward or predictable. In order to illuminate how educational professionals engage with data in their daily practice, from their own subjective backgrounds and within their own ...
The interplay of user beliefs and situated characteristics in explaining school performance feedback use KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
The present study explores predictors of school performance feedback (SPF) use. In total, 470 Flemish educational professionals were surveyed about their use of SPF from school-external, low-stakes standardized assessments. A path analysis was conducted in order to investigate how individual user beliefs impact SPF use on school level and how those beliefs mediate the effects of school-level features pertaining to school organization, ...