Lectures

Datum Titel Organisatie / Event 
02.2021
  • Workshop: Measuring learning gains through standardized national assessments in Flanders:
    points of attention for valid and reliable results.
Three-day master class on “the director in an information-rich environment”.
Eekhout Academy
01.02.2021
  • Workshop: Getting started with school feedback from national assessments and parallel tests.
Theme day: Wide-ranging Evaluation is Stimulating Growth.
Centre for Advanced Education of the University of Antwerp
14.10.2020
  • Training: Getting started with school feedback from national assessments and parallel tests.
Pedagogical councelors of GO!
09.10.2020
  • Training: Getting started with school feedback from national assessments and parallel tests.
Pedagogical supervisors of OVSG
22.09.2020
  • Training: Getting started with school feedback from national assessments and parallel tests.
Pedagogical coucelors of Catholic Education Flanders (part 2)
09.06.2020
  • Training: Getting started with school feedback from national assessments and parallel tests.
Pedagogical councelors of Catholic Education Flanders
30.03.2020
  • LIMBO- seminars
KUL Leuven
26.05.2020
  • Measuring learning gains through standardized assessments in Flanders: points of attention for valid and reliable results.
School ♡ research
20.02.2020Flemish Parliament
06.01.2020 –
10.01.2020
  • Beyond educational tracks: Unraveling profiles of political engagement among Flemish students in grade 12 using HICLAS
33rd International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) in Marrakech
12.12.2019Inspiration day on mathematics in secundary education, first grade, general track
Flemish government
25.11.2019Inspiration day on Dutch in primary education
Flemish government
13.11.2019 –
16.11.2016
  • Assessment for transformation at the school level? The use of parallel tests in Flanders (Belgium)
  • Balancing between psychometric validity and content validity: the case of differential item functioning for gender in a national assessment of French as a foreign language
  • Effects with learning aids on mathematical performance in vocational education in Flanders (Belgium)
  • External evaluation as a tool for school development: how do Flemish teachers and school leaders engage with school-level feedback from large-scale national assessments?
  • From check to act: Involving stakeholders in resonating national assessment results back to educational practice
  • Modeling certainty-based marking on multiple-choice items: psychometrics meets decision theory
  • System assessments for transformation: uniting forces of national assessments and the inspectorate in Flanders (Belgium)
  • The role of motivation in performance on mathematics
  • Which factors play a role in explaining results on cognitive and practical skills in technology by 14- to 15-year-old students?
AEA conference (Lisbon)
03.10.2019
  • National assessments by the Flemish government
Educational Quality and Testing (OVSG and VOS-ABB)
Meaning or nonsense of central assessment? 
02.10.2019
  • Results of the national assessment of mathematics, secondary education, 1st grade, general track
Learning community of OVSG math teachers, secundary education, 1st grade, general track
26.06.2019 –
28.06.2019
  • Reading comprehension: growth from PIRLS Grade 4 tot Grade 6
8th International Research Conference (IRC) – IEA in Copenhagen, Denmark
27.06.2019
  • Performance and interests of 14-year-olds in technique: effects of gender and the role of parents
Onwijs Onderwijs (ORD) Conference 2019, Heerlen, the Netherlands
25.06.2019
  • Results of the national assessment of Dutch in primary education
  • Results of the national assessment of mathematics in secondary education, 1st grade, general track
Knowledge academy of the Educational Inspection
12.06.2019
  • Summary of the results of the national assessment of mathematics, secundary education, 1st grade, general track
Study and meeting day on the national assessment of mathematics, secundary education, 1st grade, general track (STEP)
28.05.2019
  • Summary of the results of the national assessment of Dutch in primary education
Study and meeting day on the national assessment of Dutch primary education (STEP)
26.04.2019ALTE 53rd Meeting and Conference
04.04.2019
  • Seven reflections on the Educational Mirror 2019
Presentation of studies and results Educational Mirror 2019 (Educational Inspection)
14.02.2019School ♡ research 
17.12.2018
  • School feedback reports for parallel tests
Knowledge academy of the Educational Inspection
05.12.2018
  • The national assessment of French in primary education (2017)
Seminar on French (AHOVOKS)
30.11.2018
  • Results of the national assessment of French in primary education (2017)
Seminar French in teacher education (Department Education and Training, together with VLIR en VLHORA)
20.11.2018
  • The national assessment of technology in secundary education, 1st grade (2017)
Seminar on technology (AHOVOKS)
19.11.2018
  • Quality management based on an informative environment for government and schools: national assessments and parallel tests
Higher Institute for Educational Sciences
15.11.2018
  • The national assessment of French in primary education (2017): design and results
Congress didactic working group French
29.08.2018
  • The national assessment of French in primary education (2017)
Primary Education Council VLOR
05.06.2018
  • Evolution of mathematics performance in primary education: a trend analysis of baseline data between 2002 and 2016
Study and meeting day for Flemish researchers, trainers and supervisors of mathematics education for 3- to 14-year olds.
17.04.2018
  • Reflections based on Flemish national assessment research
Knowledge Academy of the Educational Inspection