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Motivation towards mathematics from 1980 to 2015: Exploring the feasibility of trend scaling KU Leuven
Mapping and explaining the second language gender gap across skills, countries and languages KU Leuven
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, ...
Reizen met Nicaise KU Leuven
Research skills in upper secondary education and in first year of university KU Leuven
The acquisition of research skills is an important goal of secondary education. Still, insights on what learner characteristics stimulate and hamper research skills are lacking. Therefore, this study investigates the relationship between students’ research skills (assessed by means of the Leuven Research Skills Test (LRST) and students’ gender, educational track, grade, autonomous and controlled motivation. The LRST was administered to 405 11th ...
Screening for aberrant school performances in high-stakes assessments using in influential analysis KU Leuven
A method is proposed to screen for aberrant school performances in large-scale, high-stakes assessments using influential analysis under a Bayesian approach. Proportions of low and high achievers within a school were modelled via the beta inflated mean regression model (Bayes and Valdivieso, 2016) using school performances in previous years as predictors. The general measure of φ-divergence proposed by Peng and Dey (1995) was used to determine ...
Item position effects in listening but not in reading in the European Survey of Language Competences KU Leuven
Evaluating the Leuven Research Skills Test for 11th and 12th Grade KU Leuven
According to (inter)national policy and curriculum documents, the acquisition of research skills is an important objective of secondary education. However, the conceptualization and hence the operationalization of this concept seems ambiguous. Furthermore, no test exists to assess students’ proficiency in (a broad range of) research skills in a 11th- and 12th-grade behavioral sciences classroom context. This article first elaborates on what ...