Met dit onderzoek is zowel in het primair onderwijs als in het voortgezet onderwijs en mbo, de ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse taalvaardigheid, rekenvaardigheid en het sociaal-emotioneel welbevinden van drie groepen leerlingen onderzocht: nieuwkomers, migranten en in Nederland geboren leerlingen. Daarnaast …

A reflective goal-setting intervention could help students adjust to higher education, and improve their performance and well-being, as has been shown by small-scale and quasi-experimental studies conducted so far. However, a large experimental study found no effects, highlighting the importance of replication, …

Invloed van persoonlijke- en achtergrondkenmerken in combinatie met de gevolgde opleidingsroutes op de overgang naar hoger onderwijs

Bilingual education using a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach is widespread in secondary education throughout Europe and also found further afield. In many contexts CLIL seems to select or attract the more able and more academically-inclined pupils, or only be available to pupils …

Prior studies suggest that teaching reading strategies promotes reading comprehension in adolescents who have difficulties with reading comprehension, yet the results of those studies are mixed. Individual differences in students’ vocabulary knowledge may explain these mixed results. This article examines …

Ter voor bereiding op het advies van de onderwijsraad over taal en rekenen (onderwijsraad.nl/publicaties/adviezen/2022/11/3/taal-en-rekenen-in-het-vizier) is het Kohnstamm Instituut gevraagd om een aanbodpeiling naar taal en rekenen in de Lerarenopleidingen. De reikwijdte van de peiling is hierbij bepaald …

In any country, there is a group of students who are at risk of dropping out of school without any qualifications. This is detrimental for many of those students, because failure to graduate increases risks of unemployment and societal exclusion. To reduce this risk, specialized curricula aim to prepare …

Research has showed that aligning brand messages with topical events is a success formula for evoking positive consumer responses, in which ad creativity (i.e., originality, meaningfulness, and craftsmanship) and timing (i.e., the time between the start of an event and the appearance of a Topical Advertising …

Erik van Schooten is de nieuwe wetenschappelijk directeur van het Kohnstamm Instituut. Hij reflecteert in deze blog op kansengelijkheid en onderwijsonderzoek.

Background: Mentors guide students in their challenges at school and in life. At-risk students in last-resort programs who are at a high risk of leaving school unqualified are especially in need of highly competent and adaptive mentors. This study therefore aimed to identify mentor qualities as perceived …