Now that the government has shifted its approach and provided schools with more room for manoeuvre, a need has arisen for more information about the design and success of innovations.
The frameworks are being set centrally and the individual schools interpret these at their local level.
This leads to two questions: firstly, how schools flesh out the national policy in practice and secondly, how schools assess the quality of their own performance.
The research therefore focuses on promising educational innovations in primary education (such as tailor-made teaching, classroom assistants, pre-school and early-school education), how schools implement these and their effects on the pupils’ performance.
Particular attention is paid to the performance of pupils in certain target groups, such as vulnerable pupils and pupils with learning difficulties.
In addition, the research also focuses on the school as a ‘learning organization’, with special emphasis on the function of learning networks, the effectiveness of good governance and school management and the influence of quality assurance and school self-evaluation.
For more information
:
dr. Roelande Hofman
tel.
050 363 6658
