Boer, Janita de (2022) The Effect of Pupils’ Attributes and the Dutch Placement Guide on Teachers’ Track Recommendations for Secondary Education. Master thesis, Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
Pupils’ attributes such as pupils’ gender, migrant background, achievement motivation and parents’ educational level, influence how teachers formulate track recommendations for secondary education (De Boer et al., 2010; Krolak-Schwerdt et al., 2018; Timmermans et al., 2015). In the Netherlands, a tool called the Placement Guide is used to support teachers in formulating track recommendations, and since this tool only takes the pupils’ academic achievement into account, it could prove to be a valuable tool to control other pupils’ attributes. Therefore, the following was investigated in the current study: to what extent do pupils’ attributes influence teachers’ track recommendations, and to what extent are these effects influenced using the Placement Guide? To answer this question, an experimental study using a within-subjects design was conducted in which primary school teachers (N = 80) were presented with vignettes (N = 32) in a digital questionnaire. The results showed that there are indications that all the pupils’ attributes researched influence the recommendations of teachers, but that follow-up research is necessary to be able to make a statement about the Placement Guide. However, these results are not all trustworthy, since the vignettes were flawed, and this has presumably influenced the results. Follow-up research is necessary to confirm the results concerning the pupils’ attributes found in this study. Moreover, follow-up research is also necessary to be able to generalise the results to all teachers in the Netherlands.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | M.J., M.J. and A.C., A.C. |
| Degree programme: | Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Onderwijskunde [Master Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2022 08:50 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2022 08:50 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/675 |
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