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Direct linkTimmermans, A. C.; Dijks, M. A.; Warrens, M. J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Track recommendations provided to students in the final grade of primary education lead the allocation to specific school tracks in secondary education in the Netherlands. Where the results of a standardised test indicate that students are able to go to a higher track level, primary schools are required to reconsider and potentially adjust the…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Rural Areas, Urbanization, Correlation
Maldonado, Joana Elisa; De Witte, Kristof – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
The school closures owing to the 2020 COVID-19 crisis resulted in a significant disruption of education provision, leading to fears of learning losses and of an increase in educational inequality. This article evaluates the effects of school closures based on standardised tests in the last year of primary school in the Dutch-speaking Flemish…
Descriptors: School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
van de Werfhorst, Herman G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
In the Dutch stratified secondary educational system, schools vary in how many tracks are offered. While the tendency in the Netherlands is for schools to become smaller, a relevant policy question is whether multi-track school settings promote equality of educational opportunity. Comparing single-track schools at the pre-university and…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Secondary Schools, Prevocational Education, Academic Education
Witschge, Jacqueline; Rözer, Jesper; van de Werfhorst, Herman G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
In addition to increasing cognitive skills and preparing students for the labour market, one of the core tasks of education is to prepare citizens for participation in democracy. Considering the ideal of democratic equality, it is important to know the degree to which civic outcomes of education are distributed equally. One feature of the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Democracy, Outcomes of Education
Vleuten, Maaike; Jaspers, Eva; Maas, Ineke; van der Lippe, Tanja – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
The study explores how parents' occupational field affects gender differences in educational fields. On the one hand, the theory of direct transfer predicts that adolescents enter fields similar to those of their parents because of intergenerational transmission of occupation-specific resources and that adolescents are more likely to draw upon the…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Gender Differences, Parent Influence, Secondary School Students
Timmermans, A. C.; de Boer, H.; Amsing, H. T. A.; van der Werf, M. P. C. – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Bias in track recommendations is an important mechanism, which causes education inequity in a tracked educational system (streaming). If teacher biases in track recommendations change over time, inequity in society and in the education system may also change. We investigated changes in track recommendation bias over time for gender, immigration…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Equal Education, Track System (Education), Gender Differences
