Projects
School Language Proficient: Committing to school language in all lessons AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Policy Research Centre Foreign Policy, International Business and Development (VISION) (2012-2015). University of Antwerp
Flemish Inter-University Policy Research Centre for International Policy, International Entrepreneurship and Development Co-operation. KU Leuven
JOP School survey 2018 KU Leuven
The Youth Research Platform is the policy research centre on youth of the Flemish Government and is an interuniversity and interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Leuven (Youth Criminology), the VUB (TOR, sociology), and the UGhent (department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy). One of the primary tasks of the platform consists in organizing a survey among the Flemish (and Brussels) youth to collect information about their ...
Meals at school: food quality of lunch boxes and accessibility of school meals for children and young people in socially vulnerable situations Ghent University
Th aim of the research is:
Organization of a steering committee for cooperation and coordination around this project
- Application for ethical approval and recruitment of schools and parents
- Registration of the contents of the lunch boxes and analysis of the collected data
- Mapping of strategies/interventions at home and abroad regarding the accessibility and availability of school meals for people in socially ...
A quantitative study of the development of an relationship between perceived racism, oppostional school and collective guilt culture and educational outcomes and wellbeing for native Flemish and Turkish and Moroccan minority students. Ghent University
This study employs longitudinal, multi-level modelling analyses technoques to investigate the development and inter-related nature of students' perceptions of racism, their adherence to an oppositional school and collective guilt culture and their educational and wider outcomes through a specifically designed longitudinal, random, selective survey of 7200 secondary native Flemish and Turkish and Moroccan minority students selected from 60 ...
COLIBRU: Collective investigative school leadership in and around Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Challenges to the Chinese educational system: the critical status of school autonomy Ghent University
This PhD research focuses on the development and evaluation of a model in relation to School Autonomy in the Chinese setting and how this is related to principal and teacher variables. The study is set up in Chinese senior middle schools. Clear questions are asked about the impact on school performance. The following research questions are dealt with: RQ1: What levels of school autonomy can be distinguished in the Chinese high school ...
Determining sample requirements for modeling and reporting (stability of) school value-added estimates: sample size, inter-school student mobility and sample heterogeneity KU Leuven
Within the context of school accountability systems, many countries use value added (VA)-estimates as indicators of the educational quality or effectiveness of their schools. A fundamental issue in this field is the (in)stability of VA estimates across time, i.e., the extent to which school effects persist over successive cohorts of students. VA-estimates are less stable, i.e., less reliable, especially for primary schools and for schools ...