Ridwan Maulana is a Professor at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His major research interests include teaching and teacher education, factors influencing effective teaching, methods associated with the measurement of teaching, longitudinal research, cross-country comparisons, effects of teaching behaviour on students’ motivation and engagement, and teacher professional development. He has been involved in various teacher professional development projects including the Dutch induction programme and school–university-based partnership. He is currently a project leader of an international project on teaching quality involving countries from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. He is a European Editor of Learning Environments Research journal, a SIG leader of Learning Environments of American Educational Research Association, and chair of the Ethics Commission of the Teacher Education in his university.
Michelle Helms-Lorenz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research interest covers the cultural specificity versus universality (of behaviour and psychological processes). This interest was fed by the cultural diversity in South Africa, where she was born and raised. Michelle’s second passion is education, the bumpy road toward development. Her research interests include teaching skills and well-being of beginning and pre-service teachers and effective interventions to promote their professional growth and retention.
Robert Klassen is Professor and Chair of the Psychology in Education Research Centre at the University of York, UK, previously working in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta in Canada. Klassen’s research focuses on the development of motivation in teachers and students, frequently using cross-cultural comparisons. He is currently leading theTeacher Selection Project — an ERC-funded project developing and testing new methods to select and develop new teachers. He is also a current collaborator on projects in Australia and Canada. Klassen serves as an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Educational Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Chartered Psychologist in the UK.