Making more objective decisions about students

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Janneke Sleenhof defended her PhD thesis at the Eindhoven School of Education on May 12th. At the end of each school year, high school teachers take a joint decision about students who don't meet the requirements to move on to the next grade. Janneke Sleenhof, who defended her PhD thesis on May 12th, investigated how these allocation decisions come about and developed a program to improve the collective decision-making process. This should enable schools to make its decisions as objectively as possible. Alongside her position at the Eindhoven School of Education (ESoE), Sleenhof has been working as a teacher of Dutch at Sint-Joriscollege high school in Eindhoven for over ten years now. This has given her a wealth of experience when it comes to the annual allocation meetings. It is during these meetings that teachers come together to discuss students that don't meet the requirements to move on to next year nor show results that require them to retain without any doubt.