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Maldonado, Joana Elisa; De Witte, Kristof – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
The school closures owing to the 2020 COVID-19 crisis resulted in a significant disruption of education provision, leading to fears of learning losses and of an increase in educational inequality. This article evaluates the effects of school closures based on standardised tests in the last year of primary school in the Dutch-speaking Flemish…
Descriptors: School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Attar, Zahraa; Blom, Elma; Le Pichon, Emmanuelle – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study focuses on the assessment of young refugee students, and the role of language and parents therein. Low achievement at tests can stem from lack of knowledge of the content being tested. However, it can also be due to low proficiency in the language of testing. Additionally, poor communication between refugee parents and schools caused by…
Descriptors: Refugees, Multilingualism, Language Role, Second Language Learning
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Frans, Niek; Post, Wendy J.; Huisman, Mark; Oenema-Mostert, Ineke C. E.; Keegstra, Anne L.; Minnaert, Alexander E. M. G. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
Despite the claim by several researchers that variability in performance may complicate the identification of "at-risk" children, variability in the academic performance of young children remains an undervalued area of research. The goal of this study is to examine the predictive validity for future scores and the score stability of two…
Descriptors: Identification, At Risk Students, Preschool Children, Standardized Tests
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Hamerslag, Robert; Oostdam, Ron; Tavecchio, Louis – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
For the first time in the Netherlands, the Adjustment Scales for Early Transition in Schooling (ASETS) have been applied to kindergarten and first-grade elementary school. A study was conducted to examine the relation between the different behavioral (phenotypes) and situational dimensions (situtypes) of the ASETS and learning performance on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Driessen, Geert – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2017
Many countries have implemented policies to prevent or combat educational disadvantage associated with socioeconomic factors in the students' home environment. Under such policies, educational institutions generally receive extra support from the central or local government. The support is normally based on indicators available in the home…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
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Hogenes, Michel; van Oers, Bert; Diekstra, René F. W.; Sklad, Marcin – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
The present study aims to contribute to the understanding of the effects of music education, in particular music composition as a classroom activity for fifth- and sixth-graders. The intervention (experimental condition) focused on a three-step-model for music composition, based on the Cultural Historical Activity Theory of education, and has been…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Ruijs, Nienke M.; Van der Veen, Ineke; Peetsma, Thea T. D. – Educational Research, 2010
Background: In the debate on inclusive education, students without special educational needs (SEN) are an important topic. However, there is a lot unknown about differences between these typical students in inclusive and non-inclusive classes. For example, the neutral results that are often found in earlier research could be caused by positive…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Sawicki, Miroslaw – Eurydice, 2008
The Polish school education system makes a distinction between two types of assessment: (1) Intra-school or internal assessment; and (2) External assessment. The idea of introducing external examinations into the Polish school education system emerged in 1992. This was directly inspired by study visits to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests