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Xavier Dumay

Researcher at Université catholique de Louvain

Publications -  83
Citations -  1432

Xavier Dumay is an academic researcher from Université catholique de Louvain. The author has contributed to research in topics: Accountability & Academic achievement. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 79 publications receiving 1303 citations. Previous affiliations of Xavier Dumay include Catholic University of Leuven & National Fund for Scientific Research.

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How Do School Systems Manage Pupils’ Heterogeneity?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared four heterogeneity management models concerning the weakest students' (1) academic routes, (2) educational environments, and (3) level of achievement and social inequality within school systems.
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The Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI) translated into French: internal structure and predictive validity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors translate the Learning Transfer System Inventory into French and examine the internal structure of the translated instrument; and its predictive validity, showing statistically significant correlations with transfer: learner readiness, motivation to transfer, transfer design, opportunity to use, transfer performance expectations, performance-outcomes expectations and performance self-efficacy.
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Does the school composition effect matter? evidence from belgian data

TL;DR: In this article, different indicators of school composition are used: academic, socio-cultural, language, and sex composition, and the results show that the school composition effect explains significant amount of between schools variance even after controlling for pupils' initial performance, socio cultural background, and non-cognitive dispositions.
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Origins and Consequences of Schools’ Organizational Culture for Student Achievement

TL;DR: This article found that culture homogeneity is positively associated with the principal's transformational leadership and the teachers' collective decision-making relative to pedagogical aspects, and that the impact of TL on culture homogeneous is partially mediated by teachers collective decision making.
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Inequalities in school systems: effect of school structure or of society structure?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors start from the observed fact that equality of opportunities of educational achievement is higher in integrated school systems than in differentiated school systems, and they offer three analyses based on a comparative analysis of international databases measuring educational achievement, which lend credence to the hypothesis that the structure of the school system has a specific effect on the extent of inequalities.