Martin Valcke

Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Educational Studies

Doctoral dissertation

Students in secondary vocational education often have to learn and practice their skills in potentially dangerous situations, operating complex machinery or working in hazardous conditions. As a consequence, they need to be trained on how to work safely, to respect safety regulations, to wear protective gear and related equipment, to consider ergon...

Background Interprofessional education (IPE) is expected to help prepare undergraduate health profession students to collaborate with other healthcare professionals in realising quality of care. Studies stress the necessity of students’ readiness for interprofessional learning (IPL) in view of designing IPE programs. The present study aims to deter...

Along with the birth of the Internet and the increasing adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs), many society sectors have experienced a rapid innovation and transformation. The same applies to education with the adoption of virtual reality, artificial intelligence tools and the embracing of blended learning approaches. The fl...

Background Work-integrated learning constitutes a large part of current healthcare education. During the last decades, a competency-based educational (CBE) approach has been introduced to reduce the theory-practice gap and to promote continuous competency development. Different frameworks and models have been developed to support CBE implementation...

In Vietnam, each primary care community health center (CHC) consists of a multi-professional team with six disciplines, including a physician, assistant physician, nurse, pharmacist, midwife, and Vietnamese traditional physician, who are able to meet the majority of patient's needs at the primary care level. How they collaborate, especially in chro...

Ultrasound imaging is a dynamic imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves to capture live images of the structures beneath the skin. In addition to its growing use in diagnosis and interventions, ultrasound imaging has the potential to reinforce concepts in the undergraduate medical curriculum. However, research assessing the impact of...

The present study aimed to explore whether reading strategy intervention directed by the principle of gradual release of responsibility (GRR) improves students' Chinese reading comprehension and autonomous reading motivation (ARM) and whether the intervention effectiveness varies for low, average, and high levels of com-prehenders in secondary scho...

In the ever-changing higher education climate, university teachers often rely on traditional, teacher-centred educational practices. While universities worldwide attempt to improve teaching quality by investing in professional development, many university teachers do not receive formal teaching training-even though teaching is often the largest par...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the education sector worldwide had to adapt rapidly from in-person to virtual modes of teaching and learning to mitigate the spread of the virus. In a short period of time, teachers were forced to find new and innovative ways of delivering education to their students to ensure the continuation of education. In this con...

As immersive virtual reality (iVR) is gaining popularity, interest from education and educational research is growing likewise. As such, it is of interest to investigate which factors thrive and inhibit acceptance of this iVR technology in education. In this study we investigated the perceptions of 2,640 Flemish secondary education students on iVR...

The increasing mainstream adoption of immersive virtual reality (iVR) in education has triggered research about key variables explaining acceptance of iVR by teachers. In this study we adopted the UTAUT2 acceptance model as a theoretical framework enriched with the variable personal innovativeness. 379 Flemish secondary education teachers watched a...

The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic challenged education systems worldwide to quickly pivot their teaching-learning processes from in-person to virtual modes in order to control the spread of the virus. In a short period of time, teachers were forced to adopt new remote teaching methods to ensure the continuation of education. This paper e...

The primary purpose of this study is to map the temporal impact of a transformational leadership development intervention on leaders’ awareness in the two public universities. Deans and heads from the two universities were involved in a six-week-long intervention. To study the short-term impact, an evaluation was conducted three months after the in...

Due to the lack of a tool assessing the effectiveness of Financial Education Programs (FEP) imparted by the financial institutions (FI) in Ecuador by mandate, this research proposes and validates a scale to evaluate the Financial Literacy (FL) level of 314 participants (15–50 years old) after attending an FEP. The final 18-item FL scale, compounded...

Design Thinking (DT) sigue siendo un concepto difuso, así como sus resultados. Esto motivó la presente revisión de alcance de la literatura (2008-2022), en la cual se aplicó el marco de Arksey y O'Malley. Usando la plataforma Web of Science, se obtuvieron 2853 artículos, de los cuales solo 172 cumplieron con los criterios de inclusión y exclusión....

This study was conducted to further explore the possible mechanism behind the finding that rural teachers are disadvantaged for participation in inquiry-based working compared to their urban counterparts. School organisation factors are the most obvious mediating variables since they can be easily connected with wider school regional features and w...

Background: Over the past few years, anatomy education has been revolutionized through digital media, resulting in innovative computer-based 3D models to supplement, or even replace traditional learning materials. However, the added value of these models in terms of learning performance remains unclear. Multiple mechanisms may contribute to the in...

Sentence-level stress is one of the major means of expressing information focus in oral speaking, and it is of importance for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners to accurately receive and send the right information in conversation. However, research related to teaching stress, especially sentence-level stress, is indeed scarce. In this stu...

Abstract: Background: The linkage between teaching and research—also labelled the Teaching Research Nexus (TRN)—is the object of a recurrent debate in higher education. The debate centres on the nature of the interrelation, TRN benefits and challenges, concrete TRN strategies, and its impact on students and academics. Methods: Based on a systematic...

In Ecuador, 30% of the population does not consume drinking water of good quality. One of the causes is related to the deficiency in the technical skills of water operators because some have not had access to elementary, high school or higher education due to factors of extreme vulnerability. The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), having an inclu...

Interprofessional identity (IPI) development is considered essential in reducing incongruency and improving interprofessional collaboration. However, noticeable differences in conceptualizations are being put forward in the literature, hindering interpretation of research findings and translation into practice. Therefore, a Concept Analysis and Cri...

Only 35% of the Ecuadorian population consumes drinking water of “assured quality”. One of the causes is related to the deficiencies in the technical ability of the operators due to their lack of education, technical training, and experience. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) responsive to characteristics and learning needs are an option to stren...

This paper attempts to demonstrate the usefulness of the linkage data from two international large-scale assessment studies, Teaching and Learning International Survey 2013 (TALIS) 2013 and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012, in examining the effects of schools. Data from seven educational systems are used to link, and four...

During the past few decades, primary teachers worldwide ae more and more expected to be able to work in an inquiry-based manner (Papanastasiou & Karagiorgi, 2019). People believe that teacher involvement in inquiry-based working(ie. reflect on their classroom practices or school-level educational reforms building on research literature or conductin...

Covid19 outbreak has seen eLearning becoming a viable alternative to the traditional face-to-face teaching globally. Software Engineering education has not been an exception to these changes. The use of multimedia enhanced eLearning communities is also on the increase in the teaching of software engineering. However, there is limited research on th...

COVID-19 has severely impacted the world since December 2019, and because of its highly infectious nature, many countries around the world have taken lockdown measures to prevent the virus from spreading unchecked, resulting in ramifications for higher education as many institutions have been forced to implement distance education. The question of...

Three kinds of knowledge that effective teachers should master have been proposed: content knowledge (CK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Most PCK studies have been conducted in the mathematics or science domain. In recent years, a growing number of studies related to foreign language teachers’ PCK have appeare...

Blended learning is door de Corona pandemie niet meer weg te denken uit het onderwijs. Ook het Vlaams secundair onderwijs schakelde noodgedwongen over op blended learning. Terwijl blended learning in eerste instantie werd geïmplementeerd vanuit noodzaak, willen sommige scholen blended learning ook structureel implementeren. Een eerste doel van het...

Tijdens de eerste lockdown ten gevolge van de Covid-19-pandemie schakelden scholen over op nood-afstandsonderwijs.1 Bij aanvang van de tweede lockdown, in het najaar van 2020, werd door onze secundaire scholen vaak een vorm van blended learning georganiseerd.2 Hierbij werden zowel face-to-face (F2F) als online onderwijsleeractiviteiten ontworpen. V...

The use of virtual reality simulations to foster competence development of preservice teachers. Over the last decade, there has been increasing interest in the use of virtual reality (VR)-based simulations in teacher education to incorporate authentic learning experiences. However, effectiveness studies mainly rely on teachers' self-reports. The cu...

While developed countries made considerable progress in implementing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and succeeded in adapting a fitting legislative framework to the integrated use of technology into Higher Education, underdeveloped countries practices were more arbitrary, ad hoc, and disjointed (Karamti, 2016). To respond to the pan...

Technical and vocational secondary school students take internships in enterprises as part of their training. As such, they are often confronted with hazardous situations, such as contact with chemical substances, operating specialist machinery or in potentially dangerous working conditions. Students therefore need to be prepared in the school sett...

The present study underpins the design and validation of a Financial Literacy (FL) scale in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) context. Though scales are available, they do not meet contextual characteristics and seem to miss out on a focus on Key Financial Decisions (KFD). Scale design was consistent with an extensive literature review (20...

Aim This scoping review aims at providing a summary of available knowledge about the role of ePortfolios in scaffolding learning in eight healthcare disciplines to identify main concepts, best practices, and knowledge gaps. Background ePortfolios are well established in scaffolding learning in many healthcare disciplines. Yet, an overview of the e...

This study reports on the impact of two alternative interventions to increase undergraduate students’ research competence. In one condition students started early in the research-based learning (rbl) approach and later followed a research-led learning (rll) approach. In the second condition students started early in the rll approach and followed an...

ePortfolios are frequently used to support students' competency development, and teachers' and clinical mentors' supervision during clinical placements. User training is considered a critical success factor for the implementation of these ePortfolios. However, there is ambiguity about the design and outcomes of ePortfolio user training. A scoping r...

Based on the TALIS 2013 and PISA 2012 linkage data, we examine the measurement properties of school instructional quality and study its relationship with mathematics performance, considering school context characteristics (school composition, teacher–student relationship, and teacher qualifications). The study adopts a cross-country perspective. In...

This study examines the effects of a design thinking intervention on first-year students’ teamwork skills from a multi-actor perspective. A design thinking course was evaluated throughout a semester. Six-hundred-and-forty university students participated, guided by twenty-six facilitators. The students received in-class training and worked in multi...

Background Several competency frameworks are being developed to support competency-based education (CBE). In medical education, extensive literature exists about validated competency frameworks for example, the CanMEDS competency framework. In contrast, comparable literature is limited in nursing, midwifery, and allied health disciplines. Therefore...

Several well-known studies have remarked on the low financial literacy (FL) levels in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which represent a problem in an economic context of change and uncertainty. This fact gives us the opportunity to evaluate the current state of literature related to FL in the region. The main list of identified keywords allo...

Worldwide, we observe an increasing focus on fostering well-being in adolescents. This is reflected in growing research in the field of care. However, empirical research is lacking that focuses on the relationship between components of care: receiving care, self-care and extending care. This lack of research is mirrored in the lack of valid measure...

Competency-based education (CBE) has transformed medical training during the last decades. In Flanders (Belgium), multiple competency frameworks are being used concurrently guiding paediatric postgraduate CBE. This study aimed to merge these frameworks into an integrated competency framework for postgraduate paediatric training. In a first phase, t...

Using the Opportunity-Propensity Model (Byrnes in Dev Rev 56:100911, 2020; Byrnes & Miller in Contemp Educ Psychol 32(4);599–629, 2007), the current study investigated which factors helped predicting children’s home learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby examining differences between children with (DD; n = 779) and without (TD;...

This study investigates the effects of using design thinking on students' problem solving and creativity skills, applying a constructivist learning theory. A course where students use design thinking for analyzing real problems and proposing a solution, was evaluated. The study involved 910 novice university students from different disciplines who...

Improving rural teachers’ quality is meaningful for narrowing the inequality in educational outcomes between rural and urban schools. In this respect, supporting teacher involvement in inquiry-based working for their professional development could be a potential approach. However, previous studies revealed that rural teachers are facing disadvantag...

The present study unravels profiles of regulators, based on online measures of collaborative learners' adoption of individual-oriented and socially shared metacognitive regulation (SSMR) during asynchronous computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Additionally, it investigates how the regulation profiles are related to students' conceptual...

Recently, teacher training programs implement more authentic learning experiences in their courses. For aiding preservice teachers (PSTs) to practice their classroom management skills for example, desktop (video-based) simulations are increasingly used. However, due to a lack of authenticity, these simulations appear to make a limited contribution...

Abstract Background: Rwanda and other low-income countries face a critical shortage of competent midwives. This capacity problem threatens the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Competency-based midwifery education (CBME) holds the best promise of developing competencies and improving patient outcomes. However, challenges aris...

Reading strategies have been documented as beneficial facilitators for readers to understand text; their potential efficacy, however, has not yet adequately assessed among struggling readers in the context of a large number of students below grade level at secondary schools internationally. Using a pretest–posttest control group experimental design...

Using the Opportunity-Propensity Model (Byrnes, 2020; Byrnes & Miller, 2007), the current study investigated which factors helped predicting children’s home learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby examining differences between children with (DD; n = 779) and without (TD; n = 1443) developmental disorders. MANCOVA results indicate...

Although reacting properly to students’ aggressive behaviour in the classroom is considered a key competence (Emmer & Stough, 2001), novice teachers often fail to react properly to students’ problem behaviour such as (verbal) aggressive behaviour. Furthermore, they report feeling ill-prepared to deal with problem behaviour (Brouwers & Tomic, 2000)....

This study investigated the effectiveness of clinical simulations (CS) as an instructional strategy to prepare student teachers to conduct parent-teacher conferences. A pre-test/post-test study was set up in order to study the impact of online (n = 181) and face-to-face CS (n = 95) on student teachers’ parent-teacher communication competence (PTCC)...

By taking into account the functions of socially shared metacognitive regulation (SSMR) (i.e. the role that SSMR plays in the (dis)continuation of ongoing interaction), the present study sheds light on the differential effectiveness of SSMR. The study more particularly investigates how individual students' involvement in SSMR that confirms, changes...

Poster presented at EARLI 2021.

The increasing attention on Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) pronunciation instruction gives us an opportunity to look into the current directions of teaching Chinese as a foreign language and the specific instructional pronunciation strategies employed by CFL teachers. This paper offers a review of empirical evidence on the use and impact of in...

EVALUATING THE FACTOR STRUCTURE AND MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE OF INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ACROSS COUNTRIES X. Liu1, K. Yang Hansen2, M. Valcke1, J. De Neve1 1Ghent University (BELGIUM) 2University of Gothenburg (SWEDEN) Instructional quality is considered an important predictors of learning outcomes. Different approaches were us...

A state-of-the-art review about ePortfolio use in 8 undergraduate healthcare educational programs Janssens Oona, Embo Mieke, Haerens Leen, Valcke Martin Background and aim(s) – EPortfolios have attained an established position in healthcare education and studies exploring the use of ePortfolios increased exponentially. Yet, a comprehensive, inte...

Background During their medical training, medical students aim to master communication skills and professionalism competencies to foster the best possible patient-physician relationship. This is especially evident when dealing with sensitive topics. This study describes and analyses the outcomes of a simulation-based training module on clinical com...

Leadership development is not considered as a core component in higher education policies specifically when we examine the higher education polices of developing countries. To fill this gap, an intervention is designed to evaluate the impact of a leadership development program in academic leaders. The prime objective of this intervention was to pro...

Initial teacher education programs are expected to provide student teachers with the necessary competences to develop themselves as teachers. This article studies the extent to which initial teacher education programs achieve this purpose according to different context-, input-, process-, and output-indicators (CIPO) by adopting a multi-actor focus...

The study investigates whether individual learner characteristics relate to differences in university students’ engagement in socially shared metacognitive regulation (SSMR) when tutoring peers. Students’ motivation for learning, self-efficacy for learning and regulation, feeling of relatedness to peers, and individual repertoire of metacognitive r...