Collaboration with the University of Twente (Netherlands)

The Centre has a long standing collaboration with the University of Twente through research and publication collaborations. There have been knowledge exchanges, with Associate Professor Schildkamp visiting Woolf Fisher in 2010 and 2012, and Associate Professor Lai visiting the University of Twente in 2014 where she presented and discussed the intervention model used at the Woolf Fisher Research Centre. The University of Twente and the Woolf Fisher Research Centre represented by AP Schildkamp, Dr Poortman and AP Lai jointly presented at the 2014 Interuniversitair Centrum voor Onderwijswetenschappen Fall school (Belgium) comparing Dutch and NZ interventions. AP Schildkamp and AP Lai have collaborated on various publications, including a recent book chapter for the Handbook for Human and Social Conditions in Assessment. Dr Poortman and AP Lai served as Co-chairs for Division H international, American Educational Research Association.