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From sensemaking to school improvement? Exploring educational professionals' use of school performance feedback KU Leuven
Purposeful and systematic data use has a positive impact on the quality of educational decisions (Rossi et al., 2004). However, research has shown that Flemish schools make limited use of pupil outcome data, benchmarks, standardized assessment and feedback from scientific research in order to shape their policy and practice (Van Gasse et al., 2015; Vanlommel et al., 2017). In this doctoral project, we investigated to what extent and in what ...
Het intern beroep in het gewoon voltijds secundair onderwijs University of Antwerp
The Decree on the Legal Status of Pupils, which came into force on 1 September 2014, introduced several crucial innovations aimed at strengthening the legal position of pupils in compulsory education; also the internal appeal procedure was reformed. This doctoral research addresses the question of educational practice in Flanders regarding internal appeals against final exclusion and evaluation decisions in secondary education. The study is ...
Informational Interventions to Promote Pro-environmental Activity Travel Behavior. Hasselt University
y The technological advancement in the automobile and infrastructure sector encourages more and longer distance travel but at the same time, the way people travel to perform their daily tasks affects the environment a lot. Today’s urban transportation is a cause of growing intractable problems that primarily include traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, and local air pollutants. It is reported by regional environmental protection ...
Data use by teachers University of Antwerp
There is a growing expectation that schools should systematically collect and analyse data as a point of departure for decisions. However, research shows that teachers themselves are less convinced that they need to base their decisions on data, as they mainly rely on their intuition and experience. This article examines the extent to which teachers use data as a source of information for decisions at classroom level and what motivates them to ...
Long and winding roads: educational decision- making of youngsters at risk of early school leaving in Flanders University of Antwerp
Increasing numbers of youngsters are at risk of early school leaving. In this study, we examine educational decision-making of inner-city youth during their educational trajectories and how this could contribute to the decision to leave school without an educational qualification. Based on interviews with 34 youngsters in a Flemish city (Antwerp, Belgium; 2014-2016), our findings show that the educational trajectories of these youngsters were ...
Does unauthorized school absenteeism accelerates the dropout decision? Evidence from a Bayesian duration model KU Leuven
School absenteeism (or truancy) may be a signal of an ongoing process of student attrition that eventually leads to early school leaving. This article estimates how unauthorized school absenteeism accelerates the dropout decision. In particular, the timing of the dropout decision of truants is compared with the timing of regular school attendees using administrative data with insights into wrongly specified truancy spells. We correct in a ...
From sensemaking to school improvement? Exploring educational professionals' use of school performance feedback University of Antwerp
In this dissertation, we examine how teachers and school leaders make sense and make use of school performance feedback (SPF) from external standardized assessments, and we explore factors that promote or hinder these processes. The conceptual framework is rooted in research on data-based decision making in education, SPF systems, and score reporting. We also incorporated perspectives from social and cognitive psychology, such as attribution ...
Cognitive-motivational antecedents of career decision-making processes in Portuguese high school students: A longitudinal study KU Leuven
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.. In this study we propose an integrated framework of the antecedents of identity development and well/ill-being for high school students (N. =. 462) in the transition to higher education/job market. One study was conducted to investigate the effects of basic psychological need-satisfaction/frustration (as proposed within self-determination theory) and career decision-making self-efficacy (posited by social cognitive career ...
Social class and educational decision-making in a choice-driven education system : a mixed-methods study Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Social class differences in educational decision-making form an important explanation for persisting educational inequalities, particularly in choice-driven systems with early tracking. Nevertheless, little is known about the process preceding these choices, especially when school and track choice are interrelated. Building on school choice literature, this study aims to explore how parents from different social backgrounds shape their ...