Projects
The Ecology of Grade Retention in Primary Education - Bridging the Research-Practice gap by Means of Theory-Driven Impact Evaluation KU Leuven
Machteld Vandecandelaere is post-doctoral fellow at the FWO (www.fwo.be).
Prior research on grade retention has failed to provide useful guidelines for policy and practice.Negative effects are often interpreted as a need for alternatives. Nevertheless, along with the ‘does it make a difference’ question, questions of ‘why’, ‘for whom’, ‘under what conditions’ and ‘for which outcomes’ are imperative. This project aims to ...
The evaluation of the Belgian Drug Policy Ghent University
The importance of monitoring and evaluation is emphasized both at the international (Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, UNGASS Outcome document 2016) and European level (EU Drug Strategy 2013-2020, EU Drug Action Plan 2017-2020). Indeed, policy evaluations inform the evidence base during each stage of the policy cycle - ex ante, ex nunc, ex post -. This is in turn is essential for policy making (EMCDDA, 2017a)
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The use of social media for analyzing and predicting the impact of events on the popularity of places, products and people Ghent University
Data science is a field that has gained a lot of interest in the last few years, and has heavily influenced research and business practices. Many companies and organizations nowadays use data science to make better business decisions. Additionally, data science leads to new opportunities in the scientific community, not only to verify or disprove existing models, but also to consider problems from a totally different perspective and to model ...
Workplace mental health promotion unraveled: development and first implementation of an integrated approach to evaluate complex interventions KU Leuven
Background
The escalating prevalence of mental health disorders globally underscores an urgent need for comprehensive research and effective interventions. The World Health Organization's 2022 report reveals a concerning statistic: 13% of the global population suffers from mental disorders, with anxiety and depression being the most prevalent. These conditions not only lead to significant increases in morbidity and mortality but also ...
CURANT - Co-housing and case management for unaccompanied young adult refugees in Antwerp. University of Antwerp
Technology-enabled resistance exercise interventions in patients with peripheral artery disease:investigation of the feasibility and short-term clinical effectiveness KU Leuven
Supervised exercise training has been incorporated into current guidelines as first line treatment for intermittent claudication (IC). However, less than 10 % of IC patients are enrolled in an exercise program and compliance is poor. E-health technology allows supervised exercise in the home-environment. However, the benefits of a telerehabilitation program remain unproven. Our aim is to develop a complex home-based E-exercise program and to ...
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 ...
Power to the people? Studying citizen involvement in political decision-making and its effects om democratic legitimacy from a bottom-up perspective. KU Leuven
Many citizens in western democracies are dissatisfied with the way politics works in their country. Among academics, journalists and politicians there is a deep concern about a deficit in perceived democratic legitimacy, indicated by a lack of trust in political institutions and representatives, lack of compliance and cooperation, support for protest parties and a general sense that politics is an elite affair where the ordinary citizen is ...
Polymer Filaments for Fused Filament Fabrication: Expanding the Current Material Palette to meet Requirements of Advanced Applications KU Leuven
Over the past decades, Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies have become increasingly popular and widespread, which is reflected in the huge growth in revenues from AM-related products and astonishing surge in publications and research related to the field. This is a direct consequence of the inherent characteristics, including freedom-of-design, redundancy of part-specific tooling and huge material savings, shared by all AM techniques, ...