Projects
Teaching in the bed of Procrustes – Effectiveness of gender-sensitive strategies with regard to academic achievement, school retardation, unqualified drop-out, the motivation to learn and the aspirations of youngsters in secondary education. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Problematic of dropout and school reintegration of girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1960 to 2010. KU Leuven
School dropout is a process that leads a young person in initial education to break away from the training system until he or she leaves school before graduating. This stall is a clear social problem that appeals to parents, teachers, managers and political leaders alike. It is often apprehended as a female problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo; since they are statistically more likely to drop out of high school than boys. Hence, this ...
Holland’s got talent for learning Chinese? A case study on study success at and dropout from OTC-Chinese at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences KU Leuven
Summary
This study is mainly focused on ‘dropout’, defined as a student ceasing OTC study as the consequence of not obtaining 28 European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits for Chinese within one academic year. Each year, the dropout rate of full-time first-year students in the Dutch vocational higher education system is approximately 30%. The annual dropout rate of Chinese language students in the Oriental Languages and ...
Everybody is a winner: Overestimation of one’s competence as a predictor of dropout from sports in adolescents. Ghent University
Physical inactivity is one of the leading health risk behaviors related to the global epidemic of
obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases. The increasing number of young
people being inactive is thus discouraging. While sport participation peaks when children are 11-13
years old, dropout increases in adolescence. It is therefore essential to gain more insight into the
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Modeling the impact of labels, the dynamics in attribute non-attendance and the dropout in discrete choice experiments. KU Leuven
This research will investigate how the efficiency of online choice experiments can be increased in case people use heuristic rules to simplify the choice task
Upstream; vulnerability assessment in schools and rapid intervention. Preventing school dropout and youth homelessness. KU Leuven
For the project upstream, we bridge the gap between the A Way Home coalitions and 1 Gezin 1 Plan and bring their strengths, guiding principles and resources together in the project. Early detection and intervention are basic pillars to prevent and end homelessness among young adults.
The sport club is key! Guidelines for sport federations to integrate a light supply in sport clubs KU Leuven
Cheerleading persistence: towards the design of peer interactions in distance learning programs with open cohorts of adults learners KU Leuven
Europe aims at improving adults’ participation in lifelong learning. To this end, Flemish adult education centers (AEC) are increasingly developing online and blended learning programmes. Allowing for flexible learning, these formats are considered to better fit mature students’ complex lives and multiple responsibilities. In spite of high enrolment numbers, online and blended programmes suffer from learner dropout. Especially in modular ...
The impact of disciplinary future self-enriched electromagnetism course on pharmacy majors’ achievement and affect in physics. KU Leuven
High drop-out rates at university level indicate that students are not able to find what they expected at the university. It is a problem in many European countries. Reports from European Commission and universities, mentioned that relating the courses in their programs to e.g. the disciplinary future selves (DFSs) of the students is one of the solutions by enhancing students’ learning and affective states (e.g. motivation and interest). The ...