Dr. M.C.M. (Melanie) Ehren

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m.c.m.ehren@utwente.nl

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Professional experience

Melanie Ehren is an assistant professor, working on research into effects and side effects of accountability systems and standards-based reform. Her research started with a PhD on effects of school inspections. In this research she used novel techniques such as a policy theory evaluation to reconstruct the assumptions on effects of school inspections. Melanie Ehren participates in the International Project for the Study of Educational Accountability Systems (IPEA)

In the past, Melanie Ehren also worked as a policy advisor at the University of Amsterdam, as a program coordinator on accountability and inspection at the association of Expertise on Vocational Education, Training and the Labor Market centers (Colo), and as educational manager at the University of Professional Education in Rotterdam. In that position she was responsible for the accreditation of one of the bachelor degrees.

International collaboration

-	Member of IPEA (International network of researchers of Educational Accountability Systems, chaired by Dan Koretz from Harvard University) (2008-..)

-	Visiting scholar at Durham University UK, November 2009

-	Visiting scholar at Harvard University and Rand Corporation USA, December 2009

-	Coordinator European consortium studying ‘impact of school inspections on teaching and learning’ (budget 1 million Euros) (2011-2013)

-	OECD review committee on evaluation and assessment policy of Luxembourg (May 2010)

-	Visiting scholar Columbia University, New York, USA (January-May 2011)

Selection of publications

Ehren, M.C.M. (2006). Toezicht en schoolverbetering (dissertatie). Delft: Eburon.

Ehren, M.C.M. (2008). ‘Het spel der neveneffecten; strategisch gedrag van toezichthouders en scholen’. In: F.L. Leeuw, J.S. Kerseboom, R. Elte. Turven, tellen, toetsen; over toezicht, inspectie, handhaving en evaluatie en hun maatschappelijke betekenis in Nederland. Den Haag: Boom Juridische Uitgevers.

Ehren, M.C.M. (2009). Over kwaliteit van funderend onderwijs. In: M.T.A.B. Laemers, M. Ehren, L.K. Geluk (2009). Intern kwaliteitstoezicht; symposiumbundel Nederlandse Vereniging voor Onderwijsrecht 2008, p.79-83. Den Haag: SDU Uitgevers.

Ehren, M.C.M., Leeuw, F.L., Scheerens, J. (2005). On the Impact of the Dutch Educational Supervision Act. Analyzing Assumptions Concerning the Inspection of Primary Education. American Journal of Evaluation, 26, 60-77.

Ehren, M.C.M., Visscher, A.J. (2006). Towards a theory on the impact of school inspections. British Journal of Educational Studies.

Ehren, M.C.M., Visscher, A.J. (2008).The Relationship between School Inspections, School Characteristics and School Improvement. British Journal of Educational Studies, 56(2), 205-227.

Ehren, M.C.M. (2008). Risicogestuurd toezicht en de Wet op het Onderwijstoezicht; Match of mismatch? Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Onderwijsrecht en Onderwijsbeleid, 20 (1), 19-35.

Scheerens, J. and Ehren, M.C.M. (2009). Voortmodderen met het onderwijs; Over sturing en zelforganisatie in het onderwijs, vanuit een onderwijskundige optiek. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Onderwijsrecht en Onderwijsbeleid.

Ehren, M.C.M. (2009). ‘Examens in accountability systemen’. Examens