Projects
Profiles of university students with reading difficulties in the learning of Spanish as a foreign language Profielen van universiteitsstudenten met leesproblemen bij het leren van Spaans als vreemde taal KU Leuven
This research is confined to the analysis of the silent reading fluency and its role in the identification of reading profiles with difficulties among a population of adult and university learners who learn Spanish as a foreign language. The objective of this study is to understand how the development of the silent reading fluency —the main activity on expert readers— intervenes with reading comprehension and which is their causal ...
Collocations in a Flemish Learner Corpus: an approximation to the concept from a pedagogical perspective and its language teaching implications KU Leuven
Professional Roles and Employability of Future EngineeRs KU Leuven
The PREFER project (Professional Roles and Employability of Future EngineeRs) aims to reduce the skills mismatch in the field of engineering: new engineering graduates frequently display a lack of transversal skills required by the labour market. Enterprises observe a lack of self-awareness among new engineering graduates of who they are as an engineer and what their strengths are. Despite appropriate levels of technical skills, enterprises ...
On track? A study on the effects of tracks in secondary education KU Leuven
Tracking is the grouping of students with similar abilities in the same classroom or school during secondary education. For each group, a tailored educational program is provided, which is called a ‘track’. Many education systems use this practice, based on the assumption that fitting educational environments to more homogeneous student groups will result in more efficient education. Tracking also allows for the development of specialized ...
Development of a digital platform to learn Dutch. University of Antwerp
Students, history teachers and the national past. Research into students' and history teachers' representation of and beliefs about the national past: an exploration regarding context, methodology and strategy. KU Leuven
Do schools and teachers leave their mark? Studies on long-term effects of schools and teachers on student outcomes KU Leuven
In the field of educational effectiveness research, teacher and school effects are most often studied in the short term. Long-term school and teacher effects are less often studied and the findings are inconsistent. The objective of this dissertation is to study long-term school and teacher effects. The main question is: do schools or teachers still influence students’ outcomes at the moment these students already changed school or teacher? ...