Research projects

The implementation of intelligent technologies in companies is changing our working world. Artificial intelligence (AI) changes our tasks, work outcomes, and our collaboration, among other things. These changes are already happening. The multidisc...

Within any given class in primary and secondary education, there is typically considerable variation among students (e.g., academic skills, psychosocial skills, learning tempo, interests, motivation, intellectual ability, values, SES). This hetero...

BRIDGE is an impact-driven project that aims to build resilient individuals through effective educational transition by formulating robust policy recommendations on education and training policies, the efficient use of public resources and the sup...

In this project, we investigate (early) predictors of and mechanisms behind educational success. More specifically, we study how lifestyle, different aspects of health and (un)healthy behaviour of primary and secondary school pupils affect their e...

The EUROGRADUATE project is a pilot survey of graduates in 17 European countries, which aims to lay the ground for a sustainable European- wide graduate survey. This is an exciting initiative to map the impact that experiences of European graduate...

The Dutch education system aims to provide pupils and students with the knowledge, insights and skills they need now and in the future to function well in society on a personal, social and professional level. To this end, basic competences such as...

Several aspects of the flexibility of educational systems such as external (end-of-phase adjustment: stacking degrees) or internal (within-phase adjustment: dealing with misallocation by track mobility, retaining grades, acceleration or individual...

The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) collaborates with several partners in the JTF-Zuid Limburg project called Future Proof Human Capital. The aim of the project is to prepare and guide employers and workers in the Souther...

The HBO-Monitor is an annual survey study among recent graduates of Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences (in Dutch: hogescholen/hbo’s), conducted by ROA since the early nineties. It provides a detailed overview of the situation encountered by ...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Skills (ITS) project has developed a unique and unparalleled database, linking skills of parents to skills of children. This database database (internally also referred to as the ‘Goldmine project’) curren...