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A COVID-generation: who are the winners and losers of a disrupted school year? Reflections from the Netherlands.
In this blog, Melanie Ehren, Martijn Meeter and Anne Fleur Kortekaas look at which students are likely to become a ‘COVID-generation’. They argue that students who transitioned from primary to...
COVID-19: do we need to redefine practices for school inspections?
Abstract This paper presents the findings from a webinar with 17 colleagues from Inspectorates of Education from 8 countries, discussing the question: do we need to redefine practices for school...
Standardized assessments in times of COVID-19: Understanding short and long-term effects
In many countries worldwide, adjustments were made to standardized assessments following school closures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. As such assessments are commonly used to inform...
Online university education: less motivation, less work, same results
Recently, students in Amsterdam demonstrated to call for more face-to-face education. A student petition is circulating online, asking for a refund of their tuition fees because, it is claimed,...
COVID-19: do we need to redefine the priorities for school inspections?
The disruption to schooling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic during the spring and summer in the northern hemisphere has necessitated changes in all aspects of school policy and practice,...
Homeschooling: What was it like for you?
Due to Corona protection measures, schools were closed for several months this spring. Just before the Summer holidays schools re-opened for part of the time. Parents took over the role of teacher...
Catch-up programmes to repair learning loss in the Netherlands: overview of interventions and a literature review of their effectiveness
Following the outbreak of the coronavirus, school pupils were no longer able to attend school physically from around half-way through the school year, and teaching was then mainly provided online....
Webinars on August 14 and August 21
School closure to minimize the spread of COVID-19 is expected to result in learning loss and study delay. The ministry of Education (OC&W) therefore subsidizes programs aiming at minimizing or...
COVID-19: do we need to reimagine the purpose of school inspections?
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has presented significant challenges to education systems. These have included whole system shutdown of schools, the cancelling of national...
How to repair learning loss from school closures during COVID-19 pandemic: which interventions and programmes are effective?
As many countries are slowly reopening their schools, governments are considering ways in which to remediate the learning lost over the period of school closure. In the Netherlands, the Ministry of...