Overview of past and present PhD-research (supervisor)

  • What does learning in second-chance education mean? (current –  Bea Mertens)
  • Seek and you shall find: career exploration profiles in the transition to higher education (current - Lien Demulder)
  • Teachers’ beliefs, interests and instructional practices in education for sustainable development (PhD - Eleni Sinakou, 2022)
  • Teaching high-ability students in mixed-ability classrooms (PhD - Katelijne Barbier, 2022)
  • Treading the tightrope. Toward a deeper understanding of completing self-report questionnaires on student learning and its related data quality (PhD – Margot Chauliac, 2021)
  • Examining the early first-year experience: straying from traditional research paths on transition to higher education (PhD – Jonas Willems, 2021)
  • Making a choice is not easy?! Unravelling the task difficulty of comparative judgement to assess student work (PhD – Tine van Daal, 2020) 
  • Unravelling medical specialists' self-regulated learning in the clinical environment (PhD - Katrien Cuyvers, 2019)
  • "Yes, I can! Can I?" At the heart of self-efficacy for negotiating in role-play simulations of political decision-making (PhD - Dorothy Duchatelet, 2019)
  • Beyond a mere rank order: the method, the reliability and the efficiency of comparative judgement (PhD – San Verhavert, 2018)
  • The validity of comparative judgment for assessing text quality: an assessor’s perspective (PhD – Marije Lesterhuis, 2018)
  • How students learn: bridging online and offline measures (PhD – Leen Catrysse, 2018)
  • Learning conceptions in the transition between primary and secondary education (PhD – Eric Robbers, 2017)
  • Subtitled television series inside the EFL classroom: long-term effects upon colloquial language learning and oral production (PhD – Anca Frumuselu, 2016)
  • Change in learning strategies during and after the transition to higher education: the impact of statistical choices on growth trend estimates (PhD – Liesje Coertjens, 2014)
  • Patterns in student learning : exploring a person-oriented and a longitudinal research perspective (PhD – Gert Vanthournout, 2011)