Aims of the project

With an international perspective and a particular focus on secondary education, we aim to:

1. Investigate and improve the cross-cultural validity of instruments (observations and student questionnaires) measuring teaching practices
2. Enable the possibility of building comparable teaching quality profiles and identifying stages of teacher development worldwide
3. Better understand the precursors of complex teaching pracices (such as differentiated teaching adapted to diverse learners etc.)
4. Document the contexts in which teaching and learning take place in various countries
5. Gain insight into the relationship between teaching practices and student academic engagement (and achievement) in an international context
6. Identify suggestions for effective teacher training and professional development at national at international level.