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The evaluation of the teacher evaluation system in nursery and primary education and schools for part-time arts education University of Antwerp

The research aims to study the practice and effects of teacher evaluation in schools for nursery and primary education and schools for part-time arts education. The study will analyze which characteristics the teacher evaluation systems have, how school characteristics influence the evaluation system , how different actors perceive the systems and what the effects of teacher evaluation are. Firstly, a survey will be administered to principals ...

The evaluation of the teacher evaluation system in nursery and primary education and schools for part-time arts education Ghent University

Geert Devos

Department of Educational Studies

Analysis of pilot projects for differentiation in the last two years of primary education and 1B of secondary education KU Leuven

Geert Kelchtermans

Centre for Innovation and the Development of Teacher and School

This research focuses on providing insight into the implementation processes of differentiation in the pilot projects in Flemish schools (Liège 1). Based on an innovation-theoretical framework with an eye for both action (giving meaning) and structural elements, case studies are made in which the conditions, determinants and effects of the developed differentiation practices are exposed.
Part 2 of the project takes the form of an ...

Toolkit broad assessment of Dutch language competencies for primary education. KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden

Language, Education and Society, Leuven, Centre for Language and Education, Leuven

A Toolkit Broad Assessment (TBA) will be developed that enables teachers to assess the school language competencies of students in primary education in a broad and functional way. The TBA, which is accessible online, is not a new test or just another 'new' evaluation tool. The TBA encompasses all existing language tests and assessment tools for Dutch in primary education (including the tests and tools situated at the transition of nursery to ...

Death to the 'failed state', long live hybrid governance? Hybrid governance and international donors in the primary education sector of Somaliland. University of Antwerp

Kristof Titeca

Development processes, actors and policies

How are public services provided in a context of a state which has been affected by enduring conflict and economic downfall? According to the 'failed state' literature, these places are characterized by a vacuum of authority. This is challenged by the literature on 'hybrid governance' which highlights how state actors are only one actor among a wide range of actors providing governance in a certain area: the weakness of the formal state ...

The evaluation of school communities in primary and secondary education. University of Antwerp

Peter Van Petegem

EduBROn

The aim of the study is to evaluate the school communities in primary and secondary education in Flanders. The study analyzes the added value of the school communities, the impact of the school communities' policy making capacity (goal orientedness, team-characteristics and decision making process) on their policy results and the impact of input and context variables (e.g. school boards, size, number of FTE's). A survey will be administered to ...

Oversampling of schools in the Brussels-Capital Region for the 'periodical survey on world studies (time, space, social studies and use of sources) in primary education'. KU Leuven

Rianne Janssen

Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Division of Geography and Tourism

This research project forms an addition to the national assessment on environmental studies (domain time, space, social studies and use of sources) for primary education, which is in itself part of the long-term agreement 'National assessments of pupil performances in compulsory education' between the Catholic University of Leuven and the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training. The purpose of the project is to make meaningful comparisons ...

Attention, please! Conceptualizations of attention and the psychologization of primary education, 1842-1980. KU Leuven

Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde

Education, Culture and Society

Starting from the contemporary problematization of 'attention deficit' (ADHD) in educational settings, this research project investigates the conceptualization of attention in philosophies of teaching between 1842 and 1980. Rather than starting from a theoretical and/or institutional perspective, as is the dominant trend within the existing scholarship, this study focuses on the attitudes of three educational actors (i.e. teachers, teacher ...

From Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge to ICT-integration in primary education. Ghent University

Johan van Braak

Department of Educational Studies

Given the increasing emphasis on the requirement for teacher to become proficient in the use of ICT, the goals of this study are (1) to explore the potential of TPCK for ICT-integration in primary education and (2) to evaluate the ompact of teacher design teams as a mean to further develop TPCK-competencies for ICT-integration in science education.

Meeting difference in the regular classroom: Participatory research with children with a disability and their peers in inclusive primary education Ghent University

Geert Van Hove

Department of Special Needs Education

Study 1 investigates the way 20 disabled children experience their daily educational (ableist) practices. Study 2 analyses the perspectives of 30 non-disabled peers in inclusive education, focusing on meanings of U+2018an inclusive educational settingU+2019 and U+2018differenceU+2019. Study 3 aims at implications regarding ethical and participatory research with children. During study 4 (non-
)disabled pupils create an accessible book ...

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