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Excellence is an important theme in education. Since 2008, the Platform Beta Techniek has been actively promoting 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. In 2011, the Platform Beta Techniek initiated the Beta Excellent (VO) programme and the 100 Schools Initiative (PO) based on these agendas. These programmes also focus 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. One of these themes is excellence and giftedness. Schools and individuals involved in the earlier programmes (Beta Excellent and 100 Schools Initiative) expressed the need to understand which students fall under the category of excellence or excellent students, what the academic journey of these students looks like, and where these students are typically situated.
To answer the question - who are the excellent students? - the Platform Beta Techniek commissioned studies from Dialogic (Triptych Excellence). These studies focus on different characteristics of excellent students, the development these students undergo, and where these students are positioned within the education system. The studies primarily examine the top 20% of students in primary and secondary education. The specific focus of this research is on secondary education.
