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Excellence is an important theme in education. Since 2008, the Platform Beta Technology has been providing extra stimulation for excellence in higher education through the Sirius Programme. Since 2011, excellence has also become part of the policy agendas for primary and secondary education of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). Based on these agendas, the Platform Beta Technology initiated the Beta Excellent Programme (VO) and the 100 Schools Trajectory (PO) in 2011, both focusing on excellence.
In 2012, the School aan Zet programme was launched for primary and secondary schools. Within School aan Zet, schools work towards their own ambitions on various themes, including excellence and giftedness. Schools and stakeholders involved in the earlier programmes (Beta Excellent and 100 Schools Trajectory) expressed the need to identify which students fall under the category of excellence or excellent learners, their academic trajectories, and where these learners are generally situated.
To address the question - who are the excellent learners? - the Platform Beta Technology initiated various studies through Dialogic (Triptych Excellence). The research delves into the different traits of excellent learners, the progression they undergo, and their positioning within the education system. The main focus of these studies is to identify who the top 20% of learners are in primary and secondary education.
