• 8:30 – 9:00 Registration and informal get together coffee & cake

• 9:00 – 9:30 Welcome & Introduction & Instructions (Faculty representatives and David Greger)

• 9:30 – 11:00 Tracking, De-Tracking, and Student Achievement: Is There A Better Way? Adam Gamoran – keynote talk

• 11:00 – 12:00 From Selectivity to Universalism: How Macro-Level Policy Narratives Shape Meso-Level Policy Outcomes? Marcela Veselková, Miroslav Beblavý Discussant: Arnošt Veselý

• 12:00 – 14:00 LUNCH (in front of the meeting room + individual administrative issues)

• 14:00 – 15:00 Assessing „Big Fish Little Pond Effect“ in the context of early tracking in the Czech Republic David Greger, Petr Soukup Discussant: Lore Van Praag

• 15:00 – 16:00 Recent developments in school tracking practices in Germany: An overview and an empirical example from a de-tracking reform Michael Becker, Hanna Dumont, & Marko Neumann Discussant: David Greger

• 16:00 – 17:00 Tracks and subjective feelings of success in secondary education: A qualitative study in Flanders Lore Van Praag, Jannick Demanet, Peter Stevens and Mieke Van Houtte Discussant: Jaroslava Simonová

• 08:30 – 09:00 Coffee & cake gathering

• 09:00 – 10:00 Hana Voňková, Jan Hrabák The (in) comparability of ICT knowledge and skill self-assessments among upper secondary school students: The use of the anchoring vignette method Discussant: Petr Soukup

• 10:00 – 11:00 Filip Pertold Sorting into Secondary Education and Peer Effects in Smoking Discussant: Hana Voňková

• 11:00 – 12:00 Daniel Münich Inefficient School Matching Mechanisms: The Case of The Czech Republic Discussant: Jana Straková

• 12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH (in front of the meeting room)

• 13:30 – 14:30 Jana Straková Strong vocational education – a safe way to the labour market? A case study of the Czech Republic Discussant: Dominik Dvořák

• 14:30 – 15:30 Markéta Holubová Evaluating De-tracking Reform in the USA and Their Transfer into the Czech Education System Discussant: Marcela Veselková

• 15:30 – 16:00 Concluding notes

• from 17:00 Guided sightseeing tour in Prague (Dominik Dvořák)

Public keynote talk by

Adam Gamoran

(William T. Grant Foundation, president)

Inequality is the problem:

What’s our response?

American center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1, 1st floor

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Organized in cooperation with U.S. Embassy and J. W. Fulbright Commission