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Enhancing the educational and social efficiency of the transition between primary and secondary education. innovations for the field (transbaso) University of Antwerp
Transbaso is an innovative valorization and research project for the Flemish education context. That school and study orientation processes are socially biased is well documented. Each selective moment in the educational career of children acts as a social threshold. One of the first crucial thresholds in the Flemish system is the transition from primary to secondary education. However, little is known about these processes themselves and about ...
Long-term effects of primary schools on educational positions of students two and four years after the start of secondary education KU Leuven
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Although the importance of primary schools in the long term is of interest in educational effectiveness research, few studies have examined the long-term effects of schools over the past decades. In the present study, long-term effects of primary schools on the educational positions of students 2 and 4 years after starting secondary education are investigated. Moreover, it is ...
First-grade retention in the Flemish educational context: Effects on children’s academic growth, psychosocial growth, and school career throughout primary education KU Leuven
This study examined the effects of first-grade retention on children’s academic growth, psychosocial growth, and future school career by following a cohort of first graders until the start of secondary school. The study took place in the Flemish educational context where primary school students are taught in uniform curricular year groups; the same curricular goals are set for all students, irrespective of ability; and grade retention is used as ...
Educational objectives for the technological subject for primary and lower secondary education in Flanders KU Leuven
This paper presents an overview of the objectives used in teaching the technological subject in primary and lower secondary education in Flanders (Belgium).
Social inequalities in educational choice at the transition from primary to secondary education. Further evidence for a rational choice? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
On the basis of these analyses, we cannot say that cultural and social resources have no role to play at all in the process of individual educational decision-making. What this study shows is that these do not enable us to explain the eff ect of parental SES on educational choice. In the absence of such evidence and in the light of the patterns found in the pupils’ accounts, we think to find some support for a view of educational decision-making ...