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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 Program. Since 2011, excellence has also been part of the policy agendas for primary and secondary education of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
In 2012, the School aan Zet program was launched for primary and secondary schools. Within School aan Zet, schools work towards their own ambitions on various themes. One of those themes is excellence and giftedness. Schools and stakeholders involved in the predecessors of School aan Zet (Beta Excellent and 100-school trajectory) expressed the need to gain insight into which students are considered excellent or gifted, what the educational path of these students looks like, and where these students are generally located.
To answer this question - who are the excellent students? - Dialogic conducted research on excellence in education. This resulted in a trilogy of publications that will be released by the end of this year: part 1 focuses on the highest performing students in primary education (part 1a) and how this group develops in secondary education (part 1b). Part 2 centers on the top 20% performing students in pre-university education. Finally, part 3 provides insight into a pilot study in which excellent students from secondary education were followed into higher education.
Utrecht: December 2012