Game-Based Learning in Teacher Education: A Strategy to Integrate Digital Games into Secondary Schools

Nathalie Charlier; Bieke De Fraine

International Journal of Game-Based Learning Vol. 2, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 1–12

As educational technology is rapidly changing, greater emphasis has been placed on preparing the next generation of teachers for effective technology integration into the classrooms. In this article, the authors describe the design, implementation,...

The effect of class composition by gender and ability on secondary school students’ school well-being and academic self-concept: A literature review

Barbara Belfi; Mieke Goos; Bieke De Fraine; Jan Van Damme

Educational Research Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (2012) pp. 62–74

In the field of educational effectiveness research, the influence of a class’ student body on students’ individual achievement scores has been a popular research interest for many years. Yet, few studies have focussed on the effects of class...

Language: English

School-based social capital: The missing link between schools' socioeconomic composition and collective teacher efficacy

Barbara Belfi; Sarah Gielen; Bieke De Fraine; Karine Verschueren; Chloé Meredith

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 45, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 33–44

This study investigates whether the established association between school socioeconomic composition and collective teacher efficacy (CTE) is possibly mediated by teacher staffs' perceptions of school-based social capital. For this purpose, data...

Language: English