Biography
Sabine Severiens is full professor of Educational Sciences at the Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The main theme in her scientific work is diversity and educational inequality, from the perspective of the teacher (culturally responsive teaching) as well as the student (motivation, integration and the learning environment).
One of the focal points in her current work is teaching in classrooms with students from diverse backgrounds and strengthening professional capacity in this particular area. She has been a supervisor for PhD candidates in a variety settings for nearly ten years.
She was director in the EU funded project called NAOS on professional capacity in urban education (http://www.sirius-migrationeducation.org/news/naos/). Furthermore, she heads the Knowledge Network on Rotterdam Talent, a collaborative platform for the Rotterdam knowledge institutes, municipality and educational practice organizations (school boards and school support organizations).
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Full professor | Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies
- sabine.severiens@eur.nl
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Work
- Pieter van Lamoen, Annemarie Hiemstra, Marieke Meeuwisse, Lidia Arends & Sabine Severiens (2025) - Ethnic-based score differences and differential prediction of various cognitive and noncognitive admissions instruments in higher education - International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 33 (1) - doi: 10.1111/ijsa.12501
- Pieter van Lamoen, Marieke Meeuwisse, Annemarie Hiemstra, Lidia Arends, Sabine Severiens & Jasperina Brouwer (2025) - The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education - Social Psychology of Education, 28 (21), 1-24 - doi: 10.1007/s11218-024-10014-4
- Sabine Severiens, Reinhilde Pulinx, Maaike Hajer, Eddie Denessen & Gert Jan Veerman (2025) - Teachers and social cohesion in diverse secondary classrooms - Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice - doi: 10.1080/13540602.2024.2446732 - [link]
- Aike S. Dias-Broens, Marieke Meeuwisse & Sabine E. Severiens (2024) - The definition and measurement of sense of belonging in higher education: A systematic literature review with a special focus on students’ ethnicity and generation status in higher education - Educational Research Review, 45 - doi: 10.1016/j.edurev.2024.100622 - [link]
- Pieter van Lamoen, Marieke Meeuwisse, Annemarie Hiemstra, Lidia Arends & Sabine Severiens (2024) - Supporting students’ transition to higher education: The effects of a pre-academic programme on sense of belonging, academic self-efficacy, and academic achievement - European Journal of Higher Education - doi: 10.1080/21568235.2024.2331122
- Kirsten Hoogendijk, Nouchka T. Tick, Adriaan W.H. Hofman, Rinske J. Windig, Judith G. Holland, Sabine E. Severiens, Patricia Vuijk & Dolf van Veen (2023) - The impact of teachers’ self-efficacy and classroom externalising problem behaviours on emotional exhaustion: Between- and within-person associations - Current Psychology, 42 (26), 22989-23002 - doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03319-0 - [link]
- Margriet Lenkens, Frank J. van Lenthe, Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Sabine Severiens, Godfried Engbersen & Gera E. Nagelhout (2023) - Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review - Psychology, Crime and Law, 30 (10), 1421-1451 - doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2203925 - [link]
- Tessa Visser, Ank Ringoot, Lidia Arends, Maartje Luijk & Sabine Severiens (2023) - What do students need to support their transition to secondary school? - Educational Research, 65 (3), 320-336 - doi: 10.1080/00131881.2023.2235397 - [link]
- Fadie Hanna, Ron Oostdam, Sabine E. Severiens & Bonne J.H. Zijlstra (2022) - The development of the relationship between professional identity tensions and teacher identity: A quantitative longitudinal study among Dutch primary student teachers - Studies in Educational Evaluation, 75 - doi: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101199 - [link]
- Kim Ouwehand, M (Kate) Xu, Marieke Meeuwisse, Sabine Severiens & Lisette Wijnia (2022) - Impact of school population composition, workload, and teachers’ utility values on teaching quality: Insights from the Dutch TALIS-2018 data - Frontiers in Education, 7 - doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.815795 - [link]
- J (Jana) Vietze, M (Marieke) Meeuwisse, SGA (Sanne) van Herpen, AS (Aike) Dias - Broens, RM (Reinhilde) Pulinx & SE (Sabine) Severiens (2021) - Predicting diverse students’ self selection from higher education: A systematic review (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2020) - Mentoring urban talent: results and implications for the future (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2020) - Mentoring urban talent: mentoring program for talented secondary school youth in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2019) - Mentoring Urban Talent: Results of a Pilot Study and Glance into the Future (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2019) - Mentoring Grootstedelijk Talent: eerste bevindingen en blik op de toekomst (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Kim Ouwehand, Marieke Meeuwisse, E van der Boom & Sabine Severiens (2019) - Happy schools, happy teachers: A comparison between schools with high versus lower teacher job satisfaction and self-efficacy among teachers on PLC characteristics. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Lonneke Meijer, GV Gonzalez Marin & Sabine Severiens (2019) - Take Lead of your Future: Female Pupils in Secondary Education and Impact of an Empowerment Program (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Marieke Meeuwisse, Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2019) - The Knowledge Workshop Rotterdam talent (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Popular - Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2019) - Mentoring Grootstedelijk Talent: eerste bevindingen van de pilot-studie (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Popular - Lonneke Meijer & Sabine Severiens (2018) - Progress PACTesl: Mentoring Urban Talent (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional
NVU
- Start date approval
- September 2022
- End date approval
- September 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- lid Interuniversitaire Commissie Leraren PO
NVAO
- Start date approval
- December 2024
- End date approval
- June 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- accreditatiecommissie TNO
