Lieven Verschaffel#
| Membership Number: | 2784 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0004575 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Full professor, Educational Sciences, K.U.Leuven
- 1997-2000 Extraordinary professor, Educational Sciences, K.U.Leuven
- 2000 Research director, National Fund for Scientific Research
- 1993-2000 Senior research associate, National Fund for Scientific Research
- 1988-1994 Part-time associate professor, Educational Sciences, K.U.Leuven
- 1994-1997 Part-time professor, Educational Sciences, K.U.Leuven
- 1986-1993 Research associate, National Fund for Scientific Research
- 1984-1986 Research fellow, National Fund for Scientific Research
- 1979-1984 Junior research fellow, National Fund for Scientific Research
Fields of Scholarship
- Teaching and learning of problem-solving and learning skills
- Conceptual change
- Metacognitive and affective aspects of learning
- Computer-supported learning
- Mathematics education
Honours and Awards
- 1987 NCTM Research Award of the Advisory Committee of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in the U.S.
- 2004 Prize for the best article in Pedagogische Studiën for the article "Development of a powerful learning environment for fostering reading comprehension in upper primary school pupils", written together with Erik De Corte and An Van de Ven.
- 2004 Laureate of the “Special recognitions to distinguished Belgian scholars” by the World Cultural Council/Conceil Culturel Mondial, Université de Liège, Belgium.
- 2009 Member of the Flemish Royal Academia for Sciences and Arts of Belgium.
- 2010 Member of the Academia Europeae
- 2013 Nomination for the EARLI Publication Award 2013
