Julien Danhier

Université Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Institute of Sociology

Assuming that free school choice is one of the parameters contributing to segregation in the Belgian educational system, the government implemented decrees to alter school enrolment policies in order to regulate school choice. In this study, two statistical approaches (a ‘Lorenz’ index and a multilevel one) have been used to measure the evolution o...

This paper investigates the links between the existence of a neighbourhood effect and school choice. The case study is Brussels. It offers the opportunity to analyse a segregated urban context with a school system organized as a quasi-market based on the freedom of school choice. Crossclassified multilevel analyses have been used on 36 427 students...

In Vlaanderen scoren 15-jarige leerlingen voor leesvaardigheid significant hoger dan het OESO-gemiddelde. Dat is niet het geval bij leerlingen van de Federatie Wallonië-Brussel. Ondanks de grote effectiviteit van het onderwijs in Vlaanderen haalt iets minder dan een zesde van de leerlingen toch niet het minimale vaardigheidsniveau dat nodig is om v...

En Flandre, les élèves de 15 ans affichent des résultats en lecture significativement supérieurs à la moyenne de l'OCDE. Les élèves de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles se situent, par contre, dans la moyenne. Malgré l’efficacité élevée de l’enseignement en Flandre, environ un sixième des élèves n’atteignent pas le niveau minimal de compétences néce...

A form processing application (such as HP TeleForm) allows transforming scanned forms in an electronic format. The aim of the contribution is to present the whole development of such a solution in a practical project where the team had no previous knowledge on this matter. We discuss the advantages and the limits of the approach, the changes in the...

The effect of composition may be strong in systems where students are systematically sorted based on their socio-economic background. This paper aims to model the differential effect of class composition on pupils’ achievement in Belgium (French-speaking Community), France, Spain and Portugal. Multilevel models are consequently tested on the Progre...

A form processing application (such as HP TeleForm) allows transforming scanned forms in an electronic format. The aim of the contribution is to present the whole development of such a solution in a practical project where the team had no previous knowledge on this matter. We discuss the advantages and the limits of the approach, the changes in the...

This article aims to assess whether differences in teacher characteristics vary with differences in socioeconomic compositions of schools. We conducted correlation analyses on administrative data from the French-speaking education system in Belgium. This database regroups more than 20,000 teachers in 1,630 elementary schools. We selected indicators...

Présentation de la construction, sous R, d’une carte de écoles à Bruxelles. La présentation complète est disponible à l’adresse: http://www.jdanhier.be/cartoR.html

Hand-out presented at the international conference: How do education systems shape educational inequalities?

The Belgian educational field includes separate educational systems reflecting the division of the country into linguistic communities. Even if the French-speaking and the Dutch-speaking communities keep sharing important similarities in terms of funding rules and structures, they present a huge gap between their respective pupils’ achievement. The...

Providing equal opportunities to students is a major goal of most educational systems. However, several countries have substantial difficulties in ensuring equal educational chances for migrant children compared to children without an immigration background. As a result, the achievement gap between migrant and natives students is a well-established...

Presentation in the symposium: Hierarchical data analysis with few upper level units