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Renske Bouwer is an Associate Professor of Language & Education at Utrecht University, working within the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication in the Humanities faculty. She is affiliated with the Institute for Language Sciences and specializes in language and education research. Her work bridges educational sciences, psychology, and linguistics to investigate writing development across educational levels.
Dr. Bouwer's research focuses on the development of writing skills from primary education through higher education, using diverse methodologies including eye tracking, keystroke logging, comparative judgment, interviews, observations, and text analyses. She investigates cognitive, affective, and social processes involved in writing, as well as valid and reliable assessment of writing skills and effective feedback mechanisms. Her research aligns with the Dynamics of Youth (DoY) and Higher Education Research themes at Utrecht University.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on dialogic writing approaches, comparative judgment methodologies for writing assessment, and evidence-based writing instruction. Her work consistently examines how peer feedback conversations can promote meaningful revisions, with particular attention to primary and upper elementary education contexts. She has developed innovative assessment tools that combine traditional benchmark rating with comparative judgment approaches to improve reliability and validity in writing evaluation.
- Comenius Teaching Fellow grant (2020) for developing an online platform for academic writing
- Successful spin-offs including Tekster (a writing program for upper-elementary grades) and Comproved (an online tool for comparative judgment)
Dr. Bouwer serves as co-promotor for five PhD candidates researching automatic and comparative text assessment, comparative peer feedback in secondary education, academic writing development, and genre didactics across the curriculum. She leads an interfaculty USO educational innovation project promoting the academic reading-writing nexus and an NRO-funded project on dialogic writing in primary education. Her work translates scientific insights into evidence-informed teaching materials through collaborations with practitioners, exemplified by her online platforms www.academischschrijven.nl and www.dialogischschrijven.nl.
