Projects
Who succeeds in the first-year of Higher Education? A longitudinal study on the impact of prior achievement, academic self-concept and self-regulation. University of Antwerp
An artificial neural network analysis of academic performance in higher education KU Leuven
The understanding of the influential factors of academic performance in higher education contributes to improving its quality. Educational researchers have usually relied on the use of traditional statistical techniques to reach that understanding, possibly ignoring the complex relationship between academic performance and its predictors. The emerging field of educational data mining (EDM) has shown that artificial neural networks are a ...
Empowering teachers in Ethiopian primary education to stimulate executive functions in their students as a prerequisite for academic achievement and future success KU Leuven
With around 42 million citizens under the age of 14 years, efforts to improve Ethiopian education have a huge potential for social, political and economic change. Unfortunately, the performance of students in primary education and the pedagogical skills of teachers fail to meet the standards set by the Ministry of Education (2015). We put forward two overlooked opportunities in the current national Education Sector Development Programme to ...