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‘Goed onderwijs (…) voorkomt en verkleint achterstanden’, zo meldt het regeerakkoord van Rutte III. Dat moge zo zijn, maar het is hoog tijd om het achterstandenbeleid op een nieuwe leest te schoeien. Geluiden over dat dit beleid faalt klinken al jaren. Wij pleiten ervoor de gewichtenregeling te stoppen.
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Het bestrijden van onderwijsachterstand is een speerpunt van Rutte III. Maar zowel de huidige als de nieuwe regeling is ondoelmatig.
Home education in Europe presents a fragmented picture, according to an analysis of regulations and practices in a sample of fourteen European countries. In ten of these, home education is a legal right. But regulatory, inspection, and monitoring regimes vary considerably. In other countries home education is not mentioned in law, but is still tole...
On the validity of school performance indicators
School performance indicators are generally considered to be important elements in programs for school improvement and external accountability. In this article five indicators are described, of varying origin. Three are in use by the Dutch Inspectorate of Education, while the other two are used mainl...
Kunnen basisscholen een bijdrage leveren aan de preventie van gedragsproblemen bij hun leerlingen? Deze vraag vormde de aanleiding tot een pilot waaraan 30 scholen en 650 leer- lingen hebben meegedaan. De scholen zijn over drie condities verdeeld: a) een conditie waarbij in leerjaar 3 Taakspel werd gebruikt, evenals in leerjaar 4 (de Taak-spelcondi...
Leerlingen die al in de eerste jaren van de basisschool gedragsproblemen laten zien, lopen een risico op latere negatieve gevolgen. Dit gegeven is een belangrijk argument voor preventieve maatregelen vroeg in het basisonderwijs. Twee interventies die in eerder onderzoek effectief zijn gebleken ten aanzien van de preventie van gedragsproblemen, zijn...
Better learning outcomes for language and math education is a central aim of the agenda of the Education Department in the Netherlands. The implementation of data-driven teaching (in Dutch: opbrengstgericht werken) has been chosen as the vehicle to realize this goal. In this article we evaluate this policy from two different points of view: a. is t...
To assess the efficacy of guided oral reading as a remedy for low-achieving readers,
two experiments were conducted in the early grades of primary school. In
the first, poor-reading students were randomly divided between two treatment
groups and a control group. In treatment groups, the intervention was delivered
one-to-one, either in a repeated re...
Samenvatting
Zowel in Nederland als in Vlaanderen is er onder ouders een groeiende belangstelling voor thuisonderwijs. In deze review wordt thuisonderwijs van twee zijden belicht, zowel wat betreft de juridische inbedding in Nederland en Vlaanderen als ook wat betreft de verschijningsvorm. Waar thuisonderwijs in Vlaanderen inmiddels juridisch is in...
Samenvatting Bijna elke basisschool kent leerlingen die in de fase van het voortgezet technisch lees-onderwijs ernstig achterblijven. Zulke leer-lingen kenmerken zich door een traag lees-tempo of door het maken van veel fouten. In dit onderzoek is nagegaan of de methodiek begeleid hardop lezen van teksten een effec-tieve remedie is. Begeleid hardop...
In nearly every primary school, there are students that lag behind in reading fluency. These students read slowly or with many errors. We wanted to know if guided oral reading would be an effective remedy for low achieving readers in the lower grades. Guided oral reading implies that a student reads a text aloud while an experienced reader supervis...
In many European countries and in North America, home education is a viable alternative for education at school. Parents who want to home school their child are legally allowed to do so, although some countries impose rather strict conditions. This article concentrates on the way authorities supervise or inspect the quality of home education. A com...
Early-childhood education and care is oriented toward stimulating the development of young children in preparation for the primary-school period. The various programs can be divided into three types, according to the chosen manner of entry into the ecological system of the young child. Home-based programs focus primarily on the parents, thereby off...
This study investigated the role of speech perception accuracy and speed in fluent word decoding of reading disabled (RD) children. A same-different phoneme discrimination task with natural speech tested the perception of single consonants and consonant clusters by young but persistent RD children. RD children were slower than chronological age (CA...
Ruim 120 leerlingen, afkomstig uit de leerjaren 4 tot en met 6 van acht basisscholen in Almere en Lelystad, hebben meegedaan aan een onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van de methodiek Begeleid Hardop Lezen. Zwakke technische lezers werden één-op-één begeleid door een onderwijsassistent die de leerling bij het hardop lezen ondersteunde en corrigeerde....
Breznitz (2006) demonstrated that Hebrew-speaking adults with reading disabilities benefited from a training in which reading rate was experimentally manipulated. In the present study, the authors examine whether silent reading training enhances the sentence reading rate and comprehension of children with reading disabilities and whether results fo...
Invoering van leerstandaarden in het primair onderwijs brengt achterstandsscholen in grote problemen. Hun leerlingen zullen het vereiste niveau niet halen binnen de gestelde acht jaar. De oplossing: flexibele leertijd, betoogt Henk Blok.
Het rijkstoezicht op thuisonderwijs is van andere aard dan het toezicht op schoolonderwijs. Bij thuisonderwijs zijn alleen de rechten van het kind in het geding, vinden Henk Blok en Sjoerd Karsten.
This article describes the results of a study into the utility of the SVI model, a model in which internal and external evaluation are balanced. The model consists of three phases: school self-evaluation, visitation and inspection. Under the guidance of school consultants, 27 Dutch primary schools have built up two years of experience with the SVI...
De afgelopen jaren wordt in Amsterdam geconstateerd dat het aantal leerlingen dat niet het beoogde eindniveau van het basisonderwijs haalt onaanvaardbaar hoog is. Het gaat hierbij jaarlijks om 20 procent van de leerlingen in groep 8. Van alle leerlingen krijgt 18 procent het basischooladvies vmbo + leerwegondersteunend onderwijs (lwoo). Deze leerli...
The system for admission to special education in the Netherlands was recently amended. The new system aims, among other things, to increase the involvement of parents. The new regulations enable the parents of children with special needs to choose how they wish their children to be educated, i.e. inclusive education at a mainstream school or segreg...
De term het nieuwe leren bestaat nog niet zo lang. Vóór 2000 werd er nog nauwelijks over gesproken. Toch is er over het nieuwe leren al een hele discussie ontstaan. De gevoerde discussie verraadt dat er onduidelijkheid bestaat over onder andere de motieven, de verschijningsvormen en de leeropbrengsten van het nieuwe leren. Het zwaartepunt van de di...
In an essay rating study multiple ratings may be obtained by having different raters judge essays or by having the same rater(s) repeat the judging of essays. An important question in the analysis of essay ratings is whether multiple ratings, however obtained, may be assumed to represent the same true scores. When different raters judge the same es...
Although it is generally believed that early intervention programmes are an effective means to stimulate children's cognitive development, many questions remain concerning programme design and delivery. This article reviews 19 studies into the effectiveness of early intervention programmes published from 1985 onward. The database comprised 85 diffe...
Although it is generally believed that early intervention programmes are an effective means to stimulate children’s cognitive development, many questions remain concerning programme design and delivery. This article reviews 19 studies into the effectiveness of early intervention programmes published from 1985 onward. The database comprised 85 diffe...
Although home education is a growing phenomenon in many Western countries, it is almost non-existent in the Netherlands. Under
Dutch educational law, children must be educated in the school system. Home schooling is thought to endanger children's development.
This study examines — primarily American — analyses of performance in home schooling. Its...
Most teachers in developed societies use ready-made programs to teach initial reading. The present study compares the effects of 3 such programs, covering 70% of the market. Programs differed with respect to their student versus whole-class orientation and the availability of teaching materials. The program outcomes investigated were Word Reading,...
n the Netherlands, as in many other developed countries, the educational authorities are trying to strengthen their control of educational productivity. They want schools to adopt student assessment schemes, based on norm-referenced tests. A questionnaire was submitted to primary school teachers and principals in order to obtain a description of cu...
This article reviews 10 studies, comprising 11 samples, of the effects of reading to young children in schools. The age of the children varied between 31 and 90 months. Dependent variables were classified in 2 domains: oral language and reading skills. The combined effect size for the oral language domain was d = .63, and for the reading domain d =...
A cross-sectional study with Dutch first-language learners from grade 2, 4, and 6 was conducted to investigate their ability to derive word meaning from context. We used a multicomponential measure that involved the percentage of correct attributes, inclusion of a false attribute, and contextualization. Students' definitions were either wrong, full...
How effective are computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs in supporting beginning readers? This article reviews 42 studies published from 1990 onward, comprising a total of 75 experimental comparisons. The corrected overall effect size estimate was d = 0.19 (+/-0.06). Effect sizes were found to depend on two study characteristics: the effect s...
Most teachers use a commercially prepared programme for teaching beginning reading. This article describes a comparison between five such programmes, which together cover about 60 percent of the known use of such programmes in schools. The programmes are: 'Alle kinderen leren lezen', 'De Leesbus', 'Leeslijn', 'De Leessleutel' and 'Veilig Leren Leze...
The main question of this article is whether computers make learning words more effective for first language learners in the elementary grades. In order to answer this question, a framework for the description and evaluation of courseware for word learning is developed. This framework operationalizes important didactic qualities for word learning p...
Gedurende een maand heeft Henk Blok, begeleidingsleerkracht op een reguliere basisschool, met Turkse leerlingen gewerkt aan het project 'Woordkaartjes'. Woorden die kinderen in hun dagelijks leven tegenkwamen maar die ze niet begrepen, werden besproken en op een kaartje gezet. Met de woordkaartjes werden spelletjes gedaan om te bevorderen dat de ki...
Three methods (mail survey, telephone survey, and keeping time) for measuring teaching time were compared. Sixth-grade teachers from 74 schools assessed time spent on teaching native language in an average school week. They used each of the three methods with a time lag of a few weeks. Total teaching time and the teaching time spent on language cat...
Werts, Breland, Grandy, and Rock (1980) have analyzed the relationship between a direct and an indi rect measure of writing ability. Werts et al. assumed that the same true score underlies both measures and concluded that the test-retest reliability of the essay tests is biased due to correlated errors. The present analysis of their data shows that...
Leraren en scholen werken steeds vaker samen in leraren- of scholennetwerken aan onderwijsverbetering. Toch is er in het basisonderwijs is nog beperkte ervaring met deze vorm van professionalisering en schoolverbetering. Daarom is via een begripsanalyse is nagegaan wat de karakteristieken van zulke leer- of verbeternetwerken zijn. In een onderzoeks...
Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1987. Added thesis t.p. Includes summary in English. Bibliography: p. 201-208.
