SIG 18 Conference 2026

SIG 18 Conference 2026 Icon

Bridging Educational Effectiveness and Improvement Research: Scientific Foundations and Implementations in the Field of Practice

Dates: 9 - 11 September 2026

Conference venue: The conference will take place at the building I in Etterbeek Campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The full address is: Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Contact: SIG18conference@vub.be

Visit the conference website for all detailed information.

Conference Programme

SIG 18 Conference 2026 - Schedule

  • 09-09-2026

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      Registration

      Building i - Atrium

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      Opening Ceremony

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      Keynote Session 1 - prof. dr. Amanda Datnow - I.2.03

      “Balancing Power and Voice in Research-Practice Partnerships”

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      Coffee Break

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      Parallel Session 1

      • Parallel Session 1:1 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 1 (i.1.03)

        Chair Lisa Maria Schaefer
        • Standardized Observation Rubrics as a Formative Tools for Equity-Focused Teaching (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Jose Felipe Martinez (Presenting Author)
          • Maria Paz Fernandez (Co-Author)
          • Imelda Nava (Co-Author)
        • When Silence Speaks: An Interactional Approach to Studying Teacher Silence in the Classroom (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Fenna Boerkamp (Presenting Author)
          • Richard Göllner (Co-Author)
        • Effectiveness of an Online Math Training for English Pre-service Teachers (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Victoria Miranda (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 1:2 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 2 (i.1.04)

        Chair Sebastian Röhl
        • Improving the Accuracy of School Value-Added Effects Through Empirical Bayes Prediction (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • George Leckie (Presenting Author)
        • Implementation matters: Estimating the effects of teacher coaching on student outcomes (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Sigrun Ertesvåg (Presenting Author)
          • Maren Tvedt (Co-Author)
          • Grete Sørensen Vaaland (Co-Author)
        • Cognitive & non-cognitive outcomes as criteria for school effectiveness? (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Luisa Grützmacher (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 1:3 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 3 (i.1.05)

        Chair Yanan Jin
        • Effects of calling and messaging on attendance in higher education: A field experiment (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Higher Education

          Participants

          • Izaak Dekker (Presenting Author)
          • Marrit Janabi (Co-Author)
          • Martijn Meeter (Co-Author)
        • Multiple-level gap decomposition including covariates (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Beatriz Gallo Cordoba (Presenting Author)
        • A Teacher-Facing Adaptive Algorithm for Differentiated Teaching in Early Algebra (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Learning and Instructional Technology

          Participants

          • Kyriakos Charalampous (Presenting Author)
          • Charalambos Charalambous (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 1:4 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 5 (i.1.07)

        Chair Jannis Burkhard
        • A tale of two countries – curriculum reform in Flanders and Northern Ireland (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Daniel Muijs (Presenting Author)
        • Understanding Change in Education: Conditions of Pedagogical Innovation in Portuguese Schools (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Natalie Nóbrega Santos (Presenting Author)
          • Catarina Gonçalves (Co-Author)
          • Joana Viana (Co-Author)
          • Rui Romão (Co-Author)
        • The knowledge-rich curriculum turns in Flanders and Northern Ireland: a comparative case study (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Daniel Muijs (Co-Author)
          • Claudio Vanhees (Co-Author)
          • Jasper Nijlunsing (Presenting Author)
          • Tim Surma (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 1:5 - Symposium: Teacher collaboration as a bridge between educational effectiveness and school improvement (i.1.06)

        Chair Andrea Wullschleger

        Discussant: Amanda Datnow, University of California San Diego

        • From collective school improvement to instructional practice: Team- and school-level capacity (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Learning and Social Interaction

          Participants

          • Andrea Wullschleger (Presenting Author)
          • Urs W. Grob (Co-Author)
          • Katharina Maag Merki (Co-Author)
          • Beat Rechsteiner (Co-Author)
        • The dynamics of teachers’ collaboration frequency, explorative talk, and teacher self-efficacy (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Learning and Social Interaction

          Participants

          • Flurin Gotsch (Presenting Author)
          • Hannah Bolten (Co-Author)
          • Dario Buetler (Co-Author)
          • Katharina Maag Merki (Co-Author)
          • Andrea Wullschleger (Co-Author)
          • Beat Rechsteiner (Co-Author)
        • From Capacity to Change: Collaboration Networks in Relation to Instructional Innovation over Time (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Learning and Social Interaction

          Participants

          • Nicolette van Halem (Presenting Author)
          • Marie Lockton (Co-Author)
          • David Trautman (Co-Author)
          • Yi-Hwa Liou (Co-Author)
          • Alan Daly (Co-Author)
        • AIEd and Instructional Improvement: PLCs as Organizational Infrastructures (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Learning and Social Interaction

          Participants

          • Yi-Hwa Liou (Presenting Author)

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      Lunch Break

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      Parallel Session 2

      • Parallel Session 2:1 - Symposium: The Role of Context in Teaching Effectiveness: Evidence from Content, Populations, and Settings (i.1.04)

        Chair Charalambos Charalambous

        Discussant: Mark White, University of Oslo

        • Using Lessons Interchangeably in Studying Teaching Quality? Why Lesson Content Matters (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Charalambos Charalambous (Presenting Author)
          • Melike Ömerogullari (Co-Author)
          • Sergios Sergiou (Co-Author)
          • Anna-Katharina Praetorius (Co-Author)
        • Class Composition or Teacher? What Matters for Teaching Quality and Learning Achievement? (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Sebastian Röhl (Presenting Author)
          • Benjamin Fauth (Co-Author)
        • Differential Effects of Teaching Quality on Achievement: Evidence from TIMSS Longitudinal (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Trude Nilsen (Presenting Author)
          • Stefan Johansson (Co-Author)
          • Rolf Strietholt (Co-Author)
          • Alec Kennedy (Co-Author)
          • Nurullah Eryilmaz (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 2:2 - Symposium: Historical changes in school and teaching culture, conditions, relation to outcomes. (i.1.05)

        Chair Tobias Feldhoff

        Discussant: Katharina Maag Merki, University of Zurich

        • Which Levels in School Matter? A Historical Comparison of School and Teaching Culture and Outcomes (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Sebastian Wurster (Presenting Author)
          • Tobias Feldhoff (Presenting Author)
        • Shifting Determinants of Student Achievement Over 45 Years (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Lisa Maria Schaefer (Presenting Author)
          • Eckhard Klieme (Co-Author)
          • Tobias Feldhoff (Co-Author)
        • The Relationship Between Teaching culture, Student Achievement, and Academic Anxiety Over Time (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Sven Neuhard (Presenting Author)
          • Eckhard Klieme (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 2:3 - Symposium: Measuring teaching quality: a matter of what, how, for whom and at which analytical level. (i.1.06)

        Chair Dries D'haese

        Discussant: Daniel Muijs, Queen's University Belfast

        • The effects of presentation order on classroom observation scores (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Bas Senden (Co-Author)
          • Armin Jentsch (Presenting Author)
        • Developing a classroom observation instrument for effective instruction in the Flemish-Dutch context (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Hannah Bijlsma (Presenting Author)
          • Margo Vandenbroeck (Co-Author)
          • Milou de Smet (Co-Author)
        • Experiencing teaching quality differently: Student perspectives within the same classroom (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Patrick Schreyer (Presenting Author)
          • Tobias Weindel (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 2:4 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 4 (i.1.03)

        Chair Jonas Weyers
        • From teaching to achievement: An equity-focused application of the DMEE (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Jérome St-Amand (Presenting Author)
        • When practice is as good as research: Evidence source framing & teachers’ views on ChatGPT (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Hanna Laura Hampe (Presenting Author)
          • Katharina Neumann (Co-Author)
          • Eliana Brianza (Co-Author)
          • Dominik Petko (Co-Author)
        • Evidence-based teaching critical thinking? Impossible yet. Evidence from a configurative review (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Nathanael Jeune (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 2:5 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 13 (i.1.07)

        Chair Paula Guerra
        • Learning Under Pressure: Latent Profile Analysis of Teacher Academic Optimism by Track & Experience (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Ruud Lelieur (Presenting Author)
          • Bea Mertens (Co-Author)
        • Specific or Generic? Three Basic Dimensions of Teaching Quality Across Academic Subjects (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Lisa Marie König (Presenting Author)
          • Tim Fütterer (Co-Author)
          • Wolfgang Wagner (Co-Author)
          • Ulrich Trautwein (Co-Author)
          • Benjamin Nagengast (Co-Author)

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      Coffee Break

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      Parallel Session 3 + JURE Activity

      JURE Activity will be hosted in room i.1.01.

      • Parallel Session 3 + JURE Activity:1 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 7 (i.1.03)

        Chair Claudia Marusic
        • PACK-UNPACK-REPACK: transforming the content-specific quality of teaching through the JAD-MTQ (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Yoann Buyck (Presenting Author)
          • Florence Ligozat (Co-Author)
        • Early childhood education quality: the role of teachers’ collaboration and professional learning (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Paula Guerra (Presenting Author)
          • Ignacio Figueroa (Co-Author)
          • Mery Rodriguez (Co-Author)
          • Ximena Poblete (Co-Author)
          • Daniela Figueroa (Co-Author)
          • Helena Montenegro (Co-Author)
        • Conceptualizing content-related constructs in the JAD-MTQ classroom observation framework (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Florence Ligozat (Presenting Author)
          • Yoann Buyck (Co-Author)
        • Self-regulation in COVID-19: Impacts on student learning and well-being, lessons for future crises (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Motivational, Social and Affective Processes

          Participants

          • Laura Schmidberger (Presenting Author)
          • Valentin Unger (Presenting Author)
          • Julian Brauchle (Co-Author)

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      Welcome reception

      @ THE BRASSERIE, bourse de bruxelles, 1000 Brussel

  • 10-09-2026

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      Registration

      Building i - Atrium

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      Parallel Session 4

      • Parallel Session 4:1 - Roundtable: Roundtable session 1 (i.1.01)

        Chair Lisa Maria Schaefer
        • Questioning the Questions: How Students Interpret Items on Their Use of Learning Opportunities (Roundtable)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Leonie Gossner (Presenting Author)
          • Sebastian Röhl (Co-Author)
          • Wida Wemmer-Rogh (Co-Author)
          • Urs W. Grob (Co-Author)
          • Gerlinde Lenske (Co-Author)
          • Anna-Katharina Praetorius (Co-Author)
        • Developing a validated model for measuring self-regulated learning using digital trace data (Roundtable)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Higher Education

          Participants

          • Narges Pishkari (Presenting Author)
          • Jerich Faddar (Co-Author)
        • From Data to Dialogue: Collective Sensemaking of Central Tests in Flanders (Roundtable)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Enya Brynaert (Presenting Author)
        • Triangulating Practical Competence in Educational Psychology: A Multi-Method Framework (Roundtable)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Xingya XU (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 4:2 - Symposium: Teacher Beliefs and Responses to Student Heterogeneity: Differentiation, Retention, and Beyond (i.1.03)

        Chair Mieke Goos

        Discussant: Leonidas Kyriakides, University of Cyprus

        • Managing Heterogeneity in Classrooms: Beliefs on Differentiation, Retention and Acceleration (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Janneke Pepels (Co-Author)
          • Barbara Belfi (Presenting Author)
          • Carla Haelermans (Co-Author)
          • Trudie Schils (Co-Author)
        • Bias in Teachers’ Expectations and Recommendations: A Video-Vignette Study in Flanders (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Timo Van Canegem (Presenting Author)
          • Joana Pipa (Co-Author)
          • Francisco Peixoto (Co-Author)
          • Mieke Van Houtte (Co-Author)
          • Jannick Demanet (Co-Author)
        • Teachers’ Grade Retention Beliefs: Links with Differentiation, Challenges, and Career Timing (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Paul Fabian (Presenting Author)
          • Alyssa Laureen Grecu (Co-Author)
          • Katja Scharenberg (Co-Author)
        • Supporting Non-Retention: Collective Teacher Culture and Teachers’ Perspectives on Alternatives (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Natalie Nóbrega Santos (Presenting Author)
          • Joana Pipa (Presenting Author)
          • Raquel Arsénio (Co-Author)
          • Sérgio Gaitas (Co-Author)
          • Francisco Peixoto (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 4:3 - Invited Symposium (SIG 18 Conference 2026): Research–Practice Partnerships for Evidence-Informed Educational Innovation (i.1.04)

        Chair Ilja Cornelisz

        Discussant: Tijana Prokic Breuer, Maastricht University

        • Building reading routines to support language development (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Mirte Dikmans (Co-Author)
          • Geertje van Bergen (Co-Author)
          • Tijana Prokic Breuer (Presenting Author)
          • Ilja Cornelisz (Co-Author)
        • The Effects of a Differentiated Wage Increase on Teacher Employment at Urban Schools (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Tom Stolp (Co-Author)
          • Chris van Klaveren (Co-Author)
          • Ilja Cornelisz (Presenting Author)
          • Inge de Wolf (Co-Author)
        • Does a reduction in teacher education tuition fees reduce teacher shortages? (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Peter Spoelstra (Co-Author)
          • Tom Stolp (Co-Author)
          • Ilja Cornelisz (Presenting Author)
          • Chris van Klaveren (Co-Author)
          • Bart Golsteyn (Co-Author)
        • The Effects of an Integrated Thematic Reading Approach in Dutch Primary Schools (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Suzanne de Leeuw (Co-Author)
          • Stan Vermeulen (Co-Author)
          • Bohdana Kurylo (Co-Author)
          • Tijana Prokic Breuer (Presenting Author)
          • Ilja Cornelisz (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 4:4 - Invited Symposium (SIG 18 Conference 2026): Decision-Making in Evidence-Informed School Improvement (i.1.05)

        Chair Evelyn Goffin

        Discussant: Izaak Dekker, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

        • Understanding and Supporting Evidence-Informed Educational Practice: Introducing the Triple-D Model (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Kristin Vanlommel (Presenting Author)
          • Jan Vanhoof (Co-Author)
          • Evelyn Goffin (Co-Author)
        • Dispositions to Organizational Data Use: The Mediating Role of School Leaders’ Personal Data Use (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Jana Groß Ophoff (Co-Author)
          • Pierre Tulowitzki (Presenting Author)
          • Jonas Pfurtscheller (Co-Author)
          • Marcus Pietsch (Co-Author)
          • Colin Cramer (Co-Author)
        • Active student Participation in Data-Informed Decision Making: Practices, Conditions and Effects (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Kim Schildkamp (Presenting Author)
          • Cindy Poortman (Co-Author)
          • Mette Marit Jenssen (Co-Author)
          • Hilde Forfang (Co-Author)
          • Myrthe Lubbers (Co-Author)

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      Coffee Break

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      Keynote Session 2 - prof. dr. Anna-Katharina Praetorius - i.2.03

      ‘Teaching Quality Research as a Balancing Act: Bringing Together Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Practice’.

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      Lunch Break

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      Parallel Session 5

      • Parallel Session 5:1 - Roundtable: Roundtable session 3 (i.1.02)

        Chair Jan Henning-Kahmann
        • Motivating youth for STEM: A narrative literature review of motivational STEM interventions (Roundtable)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Motivational, Social and Affective Processes

          Participants

          • Christophe Kegels (Presenting Author)
          • Annemie Struyf (Co-Author)
          • Valérie Thomas (Co-Author)
        • Is the school climate concept really relevant and enlightening? (Roundtable)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Clément PERRIN (Presenting Author)
          • Pascal Bressoux (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 5:2 - Symposium: Cross-national comparison of classroom observation frameworks for measuring teaching quality (i.1.03)

        Chair Hannah Bijlsma

        Discussant: Jose Felipe Martinez, University of California

        • Protocol for Language Art Teaching Observation (PLATO) as a measure to teaching quality (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Kirsti Klette (Presenting Author)
        • International Comparative Analysis of Teaching and Learning (ICALT) to measure effective teaching (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Ridwan Maulana (Presenting Author)
          • Michelle Helms-Lorenz (Co-Author)
        • Using educational effectiveness research to measure quality of teaching: the dynamic model (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Leonidas Kyriakides (Presenting Author)
          • Evi Charalambous (Presenting Author)
        • Embedding Learning in Teaching Quality: Instructional Vocabulary in TALIS (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Richard Göllner (Presenting Author)
        • The Dutch Teaching Quality Monitor (TQM) compared with other countries. (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Adrie Visscher (Co-Author)
          • Hannah Bijlsma (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 5:3 - Invited Symposium (SIG 18 Conference 2026): Methodological Innovations in Educational Effectiveness Research (i.1.05)

        Chair Izaak Dekker

        Discussant: Martijn Meeter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

        • Guidelines for Responsible Experiments with Large Language Models in Education (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Izaak Dekker (Presenting Author)
          • Elisabeth Bauer (Co-Author)
          • Johanna Fleckenstein (Co-Author)
          • Michael Sailer (Co-Author)
        • New methods for analyzing quantitative data from small-scale educational experiments (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Bonne Zijlstra (Presenting Author)
        • Persistent moderators of effect sizes in educational effectiveness research: a meta-science study (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Ignacio Atal (Co-Author)
          • Marianne Cottin (Co-Author)
          • Laurent Lima (Co-Author)
          • Pascal Bressoux (Presenting Author)
          • Pascal Pansu (Co-Author)
          • Therese D. Pigott (Co-Author)
          • Dimitris Mavridis (Co-Author)
        • Educational inequalities in Europe: A scoping review of longitudinal studies in K-12 education (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Diego G. Campos (Presenting Author)
          • Antti Koskinen (Co-Author)
          • Balázs Munkácsy (Co-Author)
          • Victoria Rolfe (Co-Author)
          • Panagiotis Patsis (Co-Author)
          • Edit Tóth (Co-Author)
          • Rolf V. Olsen (Co-Author)
          • Ronny Scherer (Co-Author)
          • Lena Söldner (Co-Author)
          • Amory H. Danek (Co-Author)
          • Samuel Greiff (Co-Author)
          • Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 5:4 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 8 (i.1.06)

        Chair Kyriakos Charalampous
        • Teacher Academic Optimism as Driver of Learning Transfer in Professional Development (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Hannah Bolten (Presenting Author)
          • Beat Rechsteiner (Co-Author)
          • Andrea Wullschleger (Co-Author)
          • Flurin Gotsch (Co-Author)
          • Katharina Maag Merki (Co-Author)
        • Exploring Reciprocal Relationships Between Teachers and Students (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Alexander Jonas Jung (Presenting Author)
          • Martin Daumiller (Co-Author)
          • Oliver Dickhaeuser (Co-Author)
          • Markus Dresel (Co-Author)
          • Stefan Janke (Co-Author)
          • Benjamin Nagengast (Co-Author)
          • Kou Murayama (Co-Author)
        • Trust and connection: Experiences with a tailored approach for overcoming school refusal (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Motivational, Social and Affective Processes

          Participants

          • Mariëtte Hingstman (Presenting Author)
          • Letty Koopman (Co-Author)
          • Anke de Boer (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 5:5 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 12 (i.1.04)

        Chair Sebastian Wurster
        • Implementation of a feedback culture based on regular classroom observations by leadership personnel (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Nora Kaiser (Presenting Author)
          • Annette Vogt-Daldrup (Co-Author)
          • Christopher Kellermann (Co-Author)
          • Felicitas Thiel (Co-Author)
          • Holger Gaertner (Co-Author)
        • Teachers´ Intention to Obtain Feedback from Students and Peers (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Sebastian Röhl (Presenting Author)
          • Tim Fütterer (Co-Author)
          • Colin Cramer (Co-Author)

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      Coffee Break

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      Parallel Session 6

      • Parallel Session 6:1 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 9 (i.1.03)

        Chair Mariëtte Hingstman
        • Conceptualisations of Teaching Quality in Primary Education: Considering 30 Years of Research (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Daniel Then (Presenting Author)
          • Julia Warmdt (Co-Author)
          • Nina Gröger (Co-Author)
          • Theresa Zdzieblo (Co-Author)
        • Validating a Leadership for Learning Evaluation Instrument in an Estonian School Context (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Daniel Reinaru (Presenting Author)
          • Eve Eisenschmidt (Co-Author)
        • Where should we begin? – Results of a teacher questionnaire on data-based-decision-making (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Developmental Aspects of Instruction

          Participants

          • Milena Riedel (Presenting Author)
          • Poldi Kuhl (Co-Author)
          • Marlon Steinmann (Co-Author)
          • Melanie Trypke (Co-Author)
          • Hedwig Gasteiger (Co-Author)
          • Sonja Nonte (Co-Author)
        • Fostering Pre-Service Teachers’ Data Literacy: Preliminary Evidence from an Intervention Study (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Dominik Endemann (Presenting Author)
          • Holger Gaertner (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 6:2 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 10 (i.1.04)

        Chair Hanaa Salah
        • Predictive Validity of Cognitive Activation: Attending to Supply-Use, Source, and Level of Analysis (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Sergios Sergiou (Presenting Author)
          • Charalambos Charalambous (Presenting Author)
        • School leaders’ and teachers’ attributions in making sense of school performance data (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Glen Molenbegrhs (Presenting Author)
          • Roos Van Gasse (Co-Author)
          • Sven De Maeyer (Co-Author)
          • Evelyn Goffin (Co-Author)
          • Jan Vanhoof (Co-Author)
        • Societal Value of Achievement: Does it Affect Competencies and School Climate? (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Jannis Burkhard (Presenting Author)
        • Student agency for data-informed school improvement (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Myrthe Lubbers (Presenting Author)
          • Cindy Poortman (Co-Author)
          • Kim Schildkamp (Co-Author)
          • Anne Tappel (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 6:3 - Symposium: When Improvement Stalls: Insights from an Ongoing Effectiveness–Improvement Intervention (i.1.07)

        Chair Leonidas Kyriakides

        Discussant: Daniel Muijs, Queen's University Belfast

        • Using educational effectiveness research to improve quality of teaching: the dynamic approach (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Developmental Aspects of Instruction

          Participants

          • Panayiotis Antoniou (Co-Author)
          • Victoria Michailidou (Co-Author)
          • Leonidas Kyriakides (Presenting Author)
        • Regulating routines of teaching development. Conceptualization of a professional development program (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Developmental Aspects of Instruction

          Participants

          • Katharina Maag Merki (Presenting Author)
          • Andrea Wullschleger (Co-Author)
          • Beat Rechsteiner (Co-Author)
        • Using student ratings to identify stages of effective teaching in Switzerland (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Developmental Aspects of Instruction

          Participants

          • Leonidas Kyriakides (Presenting Author)
          • Panayiotis Antoniou (Co-Author)
          • Victoria Michailidou (Co-Author)
        • From Data to Collective Action? Differential Effects of Team-Oriented Teaching Development (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Developmental Aspects of Instruction

          Participants

          • Beat Rechsteiner (Presenting Author)
          • Urs W. Grob (Co-Author)
          • Katharina Maag Merki (Co-Author)
          • Flurin Gotsch (Co-Author)
          • Hannah Bolten (Co-Author)
          • Dario Bütler (Co-Author)
          • Andrea Wullschleger (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 6:4 - Symposium: Reflecting on the Small and Inconsistent Associations between Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes (i.1.06)

        Chair Armin Jentsch

        Discussant: Anna-Katharina Praetorius, University of Zurich & Charalambos Charalambous, University of Cyprus

        • Beyond Small and Inconsistent Effects: Toward Rigorous and Responsible Teaching Quality Research (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Tim Fütterer (Presenting Author)
          • Tosca Daltoè (Co-Author)
          • Alexander Jung (Co-Author)
          • Lisa Marie König (Co-Author)
          • Florian Berens (Co-Author)
          • Nina Udvardi-Lakos (Co-Author)
          • Armin Fabian (Co-Author)
          • Konstantin Vinokic (Co-Author)
          • Courtney Bell (Co-Author)
          • John Hattie (Co-Author)
          • Ulrich Trautwein (Co-Author)
        • Vagueness as a threat to progress: Clarity in teaching effectiveness research (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Mark White (Presenting Author)
        • Subject-specific or generic? Exploring measurement invariance in teaching quality (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Armin Jentsch (Presenting Author)
          • Mark White (Co-Author)
          • Kirsti Klette (Co-Author)

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      SIG18 Business Meeting - i.2.03

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      Conference dinner

      @Restaurant "Le Mess" - Bld. Louis Schmidtlaan 1 - 1040 Etterbeek

  • 11-09-2026

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      Registration

      Building i - Atrium

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      Keynote Session 3 - prof. dr. Koen Aesaert - i.2.03

      ‘Distorted Mirrors – Bias in School Effect Estimates’.

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      Coffee Break

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      Parallel Session 7

      • Parallel Session 7:1 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 14 (i.1.03)

        Chair Charalambos Charalambous
        • Pre-Service Teachers’ General Pedagogical Knowledge: Comparing Traditional and Alternative Pathways (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Jonas Weyers (Presenting Author)
          • Annalena Johnen (Co-Author)
          • Lilith C. Voeth (Co-Author)
          • Sandra Heine (Co-Author)
          • Johannes König (Co-Author)
        • Developing social entrepreneurship competence in the pre-service teachers through service-learning (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Participants

          • Simona Sava (Presenting Author)
          • Oana Bobic (Presenting Author)
        • From Ambition to Action: Making Teacher Leadership Work at the Start of School Development Processes (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Emma Van Malderen (Presenting Author)
          • Vicky Willegems (Co-Author)
          • Nadine Engels (Co-Author)
        • Early peer networks after transition: Classroom context and participation in Grade 5 (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Learning and Social Interaction

          Participants

          • Jan Henning-Kahmann (Presenting Author)
          • Anna Sophie Gieschen (Co-Author)
          • Wolfram Rollett (Co-Author)
          • Katja Scharenberg (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 7:2 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 15 (i.1.04)

        Chair Beatriz Gallo Cordoba
        • Task-Based Language Teaching Integrating 21st Century Skills to Improve EFL Vocabulary Learning (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Instructional Design

          Participants

          • Hanaa Salah (Presenting Author)
        • A hybrid Q-methodological study on students' perceptions of silence in the classroom (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Teaching and Teacher Education

          Participants

          • Iris (E.W.M.) Bogaers (Presenting Author)
          • Renske de Leeuw (Co-Author)
          • Marjolein Camphuijsen (Co-Author)
          • Chiel van der Veen (Co-Author)

      • Parallel Session 7:3 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 17 (i.1.06)

        Chair Katharina Maag Merki
        • Attainment, citizenship and values in Catholic schools in Northern Ireland (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Daniel Muijs (Presenting Author)
          • Judith Fullerton (Co-Author)
        • Reducing Educational Inequality: Effects of a School-Based Support Program (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Claudia Marusic (Presenting Author)
          • Katharina Maag Merki (Co-Author)
          • Urs W. Grob (Co-Author)
          • Denise Melliger (Co-Author)
        • Evaluating Educational Effectiveness in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training Programs (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Anna Farkas (Presenting Author)

      • Parallel Session 7:4 - Single Paper: Single Paper session 18 (i.1.07)

        Chair Ruud Lelieur
        • From Content to Competence: Curriculum Design and Non-Cognitive Skills (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Educational Policy and Systems

          Participants

          • Eva Staudegger (Presenting Author)
        • SES, Parental Expectations and Home Activities in Emergent Literacy and Numeracy (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Developmental Aspects of Instruction

          Participants

          • Renée Claes (Presenting Author)
          • Katrijn Denies (Co-Author)
          • Bert De Smedt (Co-Author)
          • Koen Aesaert (Co-Author)
        • Do national assessments and international studies show the same trends in student performance? (Single Paper)

          SIG SIG 18 - Educational Effectiveness and Improvement

          Domain Assessment and Evaluation

          Participants

          • Jonas Dockx (Presenting Author)
          • Lore Pelgrims (Co-Author)
          • Koen Aesaert (Co-Author)
          • Rianne Janssen (Co-Author)

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      Closing ceremony

      I.2.03

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      Lunch & Farewell