prof. A.J. Visscher (Adrie)

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I am a full professor at the University of Twente. I am interested in measuring teaching quality validly as a basis for improving teaching quality. In my research I study how teachers can be supported in optimizing the quality of their lessons and their impact on student learning by providing them with feedback: feedback about the features of their teaching activities (e.g. based on student perceptions, or lesson observations), and feedback about their impact on student achievement. As this kind of feedback can be the starting point of improvement-oriented activities, my research also focuses on how teachers can be trained effectively for differentiating their teaching activities in line with students’ varying instructional needs.

Inaugural lectures

Please click here for my inaugural lecture (in Dutch) on the Relevance of Data-based Decision-making in Education (University of Groningen) and click here for the presentation.

Inaugural lecture Universiteit of Twente

Click here for my inaugural lecture on Developing Teacher Qualities Deliberately (University of Twente) and click here for the presentation.

Social Sciences

# Classroom
# Decision Making
# Instruction
# Learning
# Mathematics
# Netherlands
# Student
# Teacher

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), ELAN Teacher Development (ELAN)

Tappel, A. P. M. , Poortman, C. L. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. (2023). Promoting Sustainable Educational Innovation Using the Sustainability Meter. Journal of professional capital and community, 8(3), 234-255. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-02-2023-0008

Faber, J. M., Feskens, R. , & Visscher, A. J. (2023). A best-evidence meta-analysis of the effects of digital monitoring tools for teachers on student achievement. School effectiveness and school improvement, 34(2), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2022.2142247

de Vries, J., Dimosthenous, A. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. (2023). The impact of an assessment for learning teacher professional development program on students’ metacognition. School effectiveness and school improvement, 34(1), 109-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2022.2116461

Wolterinck, C. H. D. (2022). Teacher professional development in Assessment for Learning. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554664

Bijlsma, H. (2022). The validity and impact of student perceptions of teaching quality. [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554794

Tappel, A. P. M. , Poortman, C. L. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. J. (2022). Distinguishing aspects of sustainability. Journal of educational change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-022-09465-3

de Vries, J. (2022). Supporting teachers in formative assessment in the classroom. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554688

Wolterinck, C. , Poortman, C. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. (2022). Assessment for learning: developing the required teacher competencies. European journal of teacher education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2022.2124912

de Vries, J., Dimosthenous, A. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. (2022). The impact on student achievement of an assessment for learning teacher professional development program. Studies in educational evaluation, 74, [101184]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101184

Bijlsma, H. J. E. , Glas, C. A. W. , & Visscher, A. J. (2022). Factors related to differences in digitally measured student perceptions of teaching quality. School effectiveness and school improvement, 33(3), 360-380. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2021.2023584

Helms-Lorenz, M. , & Visscher, A. J. (2022). Unravelling the challenges of the data-based approach to teaching improvement. School effectiveness and school improvement, 33(1), 125-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2021.1946568

de Vries, J., Dimosthenous, A. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. (2021). The Impact of an Assessment for Learning Teacher Professional Development Programme on Student Learning. Paper presented at 34th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, ICSEI 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

Wolterinck, C. H. D. , de Vries, J. , Poortman, C. L. , Schildkamp, K. , & Visscher, A. (2021). Assessment for Learning: The impact of a Professional Development Programme on Students’ Metacognitive Strategies.. Paper presented at 34th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, ICSEI 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

de Vries, J., Van Gasse, R. , van Geel, M., Van Petegem, P. , & Visscher, A. (2021). Assessment Techniques and Students’ Ownership: Differences in Formative Assessment Practices between The Netherlands and Flanders. Paper presented at 34th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, ICSEI 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

Frerejean, J. , van Geel, M. , Keuning, T., Dolmans, D. , van Merriënboer, J. J. G. , & Visscher, A. J. (2021). Ten steps to 4C/ID: Training differentiation skills in a professional development program for teachers. Instructional science, 49, 395-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-021-09540-x

Siersma, P. T. , Pol, H. J. , van Joolingen, W. R. , & Visscher, A. J. (2021). Pre-university students’ conceptions regarding radiation and radioactivity in a medical context. International journal of science education, 43(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2020.1864504

Visscher, A. J. (2021). On the value of data-based decision making in education: The evidence from six intervention studies. Studies in educational evaluation, 69, [100899]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2020.100899

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During the last ten years I in cooperation with colleagues have conducted various projects on Data-based decision making (DBDM). In total about 150 school teams were trained for one or two years for DBDM and in the meantime we studied the impact on teaching quality and student achievement.

We just started a joint, NRO-funded, 3-year research project with the University of Groningen in which we study the policy-making capacity of Dutch school boards with respect to the professionalization of their teachers and other staff.

Together with the Dutch School Inspectorate we have developed the digital Impact! instrument for measuring teaching quality through the eyes of the students taught, the teacher who taught, and an internal/external lesson observer: https://www.impactoponderwijs.nl/

The tool is used now for measuring teaching quality in a representative sample of Dutch schools for primary secondary and special education.

Current PhD-projects
Kyra Meutstege	Design and evaluation of a teacher professionalization program for instructional differentiation
Jitske de Vries	Formative evaluation, the effect of a training intervention
Christel Wolterinck	Cognitive task analysis of formative evaluation in secondary education
Anne Tappel	Sustainability of the datateam method
Pier Siersma	Design and evaluation of a digital tool for enhancing strategical knowledge in medical physics
Hannah Bijlsma	Effects of a digital tool for providing teachers with feedback on lesson quality
Paul van Viegen	The use of eye-tracking for studying teachers' monitoring activities for instructional differentiation
Lucas Silva Didier	The use of student perceptions of teaching quality for instructional improvement in Chili
Miriam Knoef	Design and evaluation of a professional development intervention for teaching language and Science & Technology in an integrated manner.

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a.j.visscher@utwente.nl

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