LUCET

The Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) is a research and transfer centre primarily assembling expertise in (large-scale) assessment and testing in technology-rich multilingual learning environments.
LUCET’s most prominent and resource-intensive commissioned research is the implementation, enhancement and assurance of the Luxembourg school monitoring programme Épreuves Standardisées (ÉpStan), which aims at facilitating evidence-based decision making in national education. Through the ÉpStan, LUCET is not only providing timely and policy-relevant information to national educational stakeholders, but also assembling a unique and incredibly rich longitudinal database—panels are actually entire cohorts—about the evolution of students’ competency profiles and their pathways through school—and possibly through life.

Additional mission-oriented research and assessment projects include national analyses and reporting of international large-scale studies (e.g., PISA), (large-scale) cognitive and language testing, university admissions testing and student course evaluations. Many of the aforementioned—partially high-stakes—assessments are completely computer‐ and web‐based—using LUCET’s in-house online assessment system OASYS.

In addition to the centre’s commissioned research in the area of educational measurement, LUCET is also in charge of the coordination, facilitation and dissemination of nationally embedded educational research at the University of Luxembourg. LUCET’s most prominent dissemination outlet is the triennial report on national education, the so-called Bildungsbericht.

Latest projects

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Psychological mechanisms in math skills

Inhibition, mental set shifting, and memory updating are related to math skills in preschool children. These meta-analytic findings from a research project led by the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing and the University of Oslo were just publish in the Psychological Bulletin.

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Diagnosing learning disabilities in multilingual contexts

The handbook “Lernstörungen im multilingualen Kontext: Diagnose und Hilfestellungen” is the first result of a joint collaboration between the University of Luxembourg and the Centre pour le développement des apprentissages Grande-Duchesse Maria Teresa (CDA) and focuses on the results of a study of the (standardised) assessment tools currently used in Luxembourg to diagnose specific learning disorders. The results of the study are based on interviews and questionnaire data collected from practitioners at the local, regional and national levels.

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Building a bridge between the University and the Ministry of Education

The Bridge-Builder aims at setting up a single point of contact for research-related interactions between the University of Luxembourg and the Ministry of Education. It will support a streamlining of interactions between these two big players and enhance the visibility of educational research at the University of Luxembourg.

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MaGrid – Early Math Learning Solution

MaGrid, a new application developed by the University of Luxembourg, aims to make early mathematics education accessible to all children, regardless of their language background.

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How can digital media be used in higher education of the 21st century?

The daily use of digital media is part of our lives and became a key componement of many acivities. Education is one them. Instead of focusing on the technology , the research initiative ILTI (Innovative Learning & Teaching Initiative) is looking at small case studies to understand how to best use digital media in contemporary Education.

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ÉpStan: The Luxembourg School Monitoring Programme

Through the Épreuves Standardisées (ÉpStan), the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) provides timely and policy-relevant information to national education stakeholders and assembles a unique and incredibly rich longitudinal database.

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Bildungsbericht: The National Education Report

The Bildungsbericht is a triennial, integrative and research-based report on the state of national public education.