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 studentsâ 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.
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
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:Â 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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