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The added value of instruction related teacher and school characteristics to the development of ICT competences of students in segregated primary schools. Ghent University

Johan van Braak
Department of Educational Studies

The research project studies teacher and school characteristics related to ICT competences of students in segregated schools. RO1 focuses on the relationship between teachersU+2019 instructional role and studentsU+2019 ICT competences. RO2 studies how teachersU+2019 expectations and instructional role
mediate the relationship between gender, SES and ICT competences. RO3 studies the relationship between an instruction-orientated school ...

TRajectories of Acculturation and Contact in Ethnically diverse Social networks KU Leuven

Karen Phalet
Social and Cultural Psychology

Across Europe even high-achieving children of immigrants are at risk of underperforming and disengaging from school, with long-lasting consequences for their future life chances in today’s knowledge economy (OECD, 2012). Ethnic inequalities are not fully explained by individual abilities or family resources on the side of minority students (Heath & Brinbaum, 2014); and cross-national comparison suggests the key role of different ...

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

Peter Stevens
Department of Sociology

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 ...

School choice and segregation: determinants, effects and policy KU Leuven

Erwin Ooghe
Research Centre of Public Economics, Leuven

We investigate the determinants and effects of school segregation, a socially and economically relevant topic. Not only does social segregation have severe democratic consequences, it also impacts educational outcomes and hampers an efficient allocation and production of human resources. First, we investigate how preferences for socio-economic and ethnic group composition lead to school segregation. We estimate and simulate school choice ...