Publications

This study aimed to challenge the “uniformity myth” in career counseling outcome studies — that is, a tendency towards studying career counseling clients as homogenous, implicitly assuming that the same outcomes would be beneficial to all clients. To this end, we examined therole of clients’ initial career counseling goals. We hypothesized that a client’s career counseling goals would affect (1) which outcomes the client is likely to attain ...

Learning from the career trajectories of successful professional tennis players is central to informing effective strategy, policy and practice to maximize player development. This paper aims to examine the career milestones of top professional tennis players, utilizing this information to forecast a player’s career peak ranking. Thirty-years of longitudinal data which included 82 top 10 professional ranked players between 2007 to 2017, were ...

Background: Bridging educational and social psychology, we examine the impact of positive intergroup relations in schools on minority and nonminority school careers. Purpose of Study: The study aims to estimate and explain the attainment gap between Turkish Belgian minority and Belgian nonminority students at four stages of their school careers, controlling for family background and prior attainment. Intergroup friendship and perceived teacher ...

© 2015 Operational Research Society Ltd. A Markov manpower planning model with fixed internal transition probabilities, enables assessing the feasibility to attain the most desirable personnel structure. In case the desirable personnel structure is not attainable under control by recruitment, the internal personnel flows can be modified while not disrupting the career progression expectations. This paper introduces the promotion steadiness ...

In this paper we investigate long-term effects of grade retention and downward track changes on educational degree, lifelong learning and occupational career. Changing downward the educational track of a student is an important alternative to grade retention in secondary education in Flanders and the Netherlands. Based on longitudinal data, we find that young people who at least once repeated a grade in primary or secondary education or changed ...

This paper investigates the underlying mechanisms and different contexts which played a decisive role in the advancement of the pre-abbatial monastic careers of adult converts living in the eleventh century. Whereas most studies on these individuals have focused primarily on their abbatial careers, this article will consider the years preceding their attaining an influential monastic leadership position. Based upon the case of Poppo of Stavelot, ...

In this study, we examine the largely neglected long-term effects of bilingualism for students with roots in immigration. Our central research question is whether students' bilingual proficiencies have an impact on their future earnings in the USA. For this purpose, we used two different data-sets, i.e. the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS). Based on Latent Class Analysis, we ...

During a prolific career spanning four decades David Mamet has attained a rare degree of popular and critical success in a wide array of artistic 'disciplines.' At the same time, his omnipresence starkly contrasts with the extensive, though mostly one-sided scholarly attention his work has received for over a quarter of a century. Indeed, only a small fraction of the secondary literature addresses the interrelations between these various ...