Vulnerable groups in education and training, ensuring inclusion and non-discrimination
Early school leaving, participation in education and training
Parental and stakeholders’ engagement, whole-school approach
Education and migration
Monitoring for equity and quality in education and training
Active citizenship and identity in education
Selected publications
Salinas, E., Stancel-Piatak, A., Nicaise, I. (2022). Who caters for the teacher’s needs? The role of teachers’ working conditions for students’ achievement and motivation in selected TIMSS 2015 countries, in: International Journal of Educational Research, 3, August 2022, pp. 1-13, doi: 10.1016/j.ijeduro.2022.100196.
Franck, E., Nicaise, I. (2022). The effectiveness of equity funding policies in schools in Europe and North America: A systematic literature review, in: Issues in Educational Research, 32(2), pp. 494-512. Available at: http://www.iier.org.au/iier32/franck.pdf.
Colak, F.Z., Van Praag, L., Nicaise, I. (2021). ‘You Have to Integrate to Belong Here!’: Acculturation and Exclusion among Turkish and Belgian Descent Students on a University Campus, in: Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42, pp. 1-17. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2010675.
Colak, F.Z., Van Praag, L., Nicaise, I. (2020). ‘Oh, this is really good work – especially for a Turk’: a critical race theory analysis of Turkish Belgian students’ discrimination experiences, in: Race Ethnicity and Education, 26(5). DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2020.1842351.
Ünver Ö, Bircan T., Nicaise, I. (2021). A Multilevel Approach to ECEC Policies and Intensity of Formal Childcare Participation of Young Children in Europe, in: Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 122, March 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105798.
Ünver Ö, Bircan T., Nicaise, I. (2020). Opinion-Policy Correspondence for Public Provision and Financing of Childcare in Europe, in: International Journal of Educational Research, 101, April 2020, pp. 1-17.
Schirripa Spagnolo, F., Salvati, N., D’Agostino, A., Nicaise, I. (2020). The use of sampling weights in the M-quantile random-effects regression: an application to PISA mathematics scores, in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 82(2), May 2020. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12418.
Kaka Tshinzobe, J.-C., Nicaise, I., Opanga, V. (2019). Pauvreté monétaire et santé des enfants en Afrique, in: Revue d’Economie et de Statistique Appliquée, 16 (2), December 2019, pp. 19-32, ISSN: 1112-234X EISSN: 2600-6642.
Colak, F.Z., Van Praag, L., Nicaise, I. (2019). An Investigation of Belgian-Descent University Students’ perceived Barriers to Establishing Contact with Muslim Students, in: New Diversities, Vol. 21, No. 2, ISSN-Print 2199-8108 ▪ ISSN-Internet 2199-8116.
Colak, F.Z., Van Praag, L., Nicaise, I. (2019). A qualitative study of how exclusion processes shape friendship development among Turkish-Belgian university students, in: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 73, pp. 1-10.
Ünver Ö, Nicaise, I., Bircan, T. (2019). , Interactive Acculturation of Turkish-Belgian Parents and Children in Flanders: A Case Study from Beringen, Migration Letters, July 2019
Verhaest D., Lavrijsen J., Van Trier W., Nicaise I., Omey E. (2018). General education, vocational education and skill mismatches: short-run versus long-run effects, Oxford Economic Papers
Ünver Ö, Bircan T., Nicaise I. (2018). Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: a cross-country multilevel study, International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 12(5).
Lavrijsen J., Nicaise, I. (2017). Systemic obstacles to lifelong learning: the influence of the educational system design on learning attitudes, in: Studies in Continuing Education.
Lavrijsen J., Nicaise, I. (2017). Returns to vocational education over the life cycle: between immediate labour market preparation and lifelong employability, in: International Review of Education.
Lavrijsen J., Nicaise, I. (2016). Ascription, Achievement, and Perceived Equity of Educational Regimes: An Empirical Investigation, in: Social Sciences, 2016, 5 (64).
Lavrijsen J., Nicaise, I. (2016). Educational tracking, inequality and performance. New evidence using a differences-in-differences technique, Research in Comparative and International Education, August 2016.
Lavrijsen J., Nicaise, I. (2015). Social inequalities in early school leaving: The role of educational institutions and the socio-economic context, European Education, 47(4).
Lavrijsen J., Nicaise I. (2015). New empirical evidence on the effect of educational tracking on social inequalities in reading achievement, European Educational Research Journal, July 2015 (n° 3-4).
Poesen-Vandeputte, M., Nicaise, I. (2015). Rich schools, poor schools. Hidden resource inequalities between primary schools, Educational Research, 57(1).
Collado D., Lomos C., Nicaise, I. (2014). The effects of classroom socioeconomic composition on student’s civic knowledge in Chile, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, October 2014.