Publications
Learning goal orientation in high ability and average ability students: Developmental trajectories, contextual predictors, and long-term educational outcomes KU Leuven
Learning goal orientation is a prominent motivational construct that has been linked to positive student outcomes. For high-ability students, a lack of mastery learning goals has been theoretically and empirically associated with underachievement. However, longitudinal research examining the development and outcomes of their learning goal orientation over time, and comparing this development to that of average ability peers, is lacking. In this ...
Educational effectiveness research in Africa: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) KU Leuven
Effortless or less effort? Effects of tracks on students' engagement. KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: It is found that assigning students to a lower track during secondary education negatively affects their academic performance. As an explanation, it is often mentioned that an anti-school culture in lower tracks undermines students' effort and involvement. AIMS: This study assessed whether going to a lower track affects student engagement. For if an anti-school culture is to blame for limiting lower track students' performance, lower ...
Do textbooks matter for reading comprehension? A study in Flemish primary education KU Leuven
This study assessed whether textbooks affect academic performance and engagement in reading comprehension in primary education in Flanders (Belgium). The data of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2016 and a reassessment of this study in 2018 were used to describe students' learning progress in reading comprehension and evolution in engagement between the fourth and sixth grade. The sample consisted of 3051 students in 98 ...
Module 9. Kwaliteit KU Leuven
Social acceptance of high-ability youth: Multiple perspectives and contextual influences KU Leuven
Peer relationships form a key developmental context. The current study investigated differences in peer acceptance between high-ability and average-ability youth, from the perspectives of teachers, peers, and students. Relying on the person-group similarity model, we also tested whether high-ability students’ acceptance would depend on the peer group’s mean ability level. A sample of 2,736 sixth-grade students from 188 classes in 117 schools ...