Tim Mainhard
Professor Educational Sciences
- Name
- Prof.dr. M.T. Mainhard
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.t.mainhard@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2151-1398
Tim Mainhard works as a professor of Educational Sciences at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University. Tim Mainhard focuses primarily on how interaction and social climate in primary and secondary education can best be operationalized and how teacher-student interaction can contribute to motivation, well-being and learning.
More information about Tim Mainhard
Short cv and research
After doing his master’s in psychology at Maastricht University, Tim Mainhard received a PhD from Utrecht University for his dissertation on interpersonal teacher behavior in secondary education classrooms. He received several external research grants, including personal grants from the Dutch Research Council.
His research on interpersonal processes in the classroom is relevant to current societal issues such as citizenship education, equity in education and the teacher shortage. Tim Mainhard focuses primarily on how interaction and the social climate in primary and secondary education can best be operationalized and how teacher-student interaction contributes to motivation, well-being and learning. His research also focuses on implications for teachers themselves, such as professional well-being and stress.
Activities
Tim Mainhard chaired the AERA Special Interest Group Classroom Management, has been associate editor for Learning and Instruction and has extensive experience in social science research review as a member of ethics committees. Since September 2022 he is the educational director of the graduate school ICO (Interuniversity Center for Educational Sciences).
Teaching
In addition to his teaching in the (under) graduate program Educational Sciences and the Research Master at Education and Child Studies, Tim is involved as a coordinator (EMPO - Educational Master Primary Education) and teacher educator/lecturer (EMPO and ACPA - Academic Pabo) in two academic teacher training programs for primary education.
Workdays
Monday - Friday
Professor Educational Sciences
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen
- Onderwijswetenschappen
- Thijs Jochem, Krijnen Minke, Van Vemde Lian, Hornstra Lisette, Mainhard Tim & Wansink Bjorn (2025), The diversity teaching beliefs scale: Addressing cultural diversity, communalities between cultures, and the national culture in the classroom, Teaching and Teacher Education 153: 104846 (104846).
- Hoekstra N. A.H, Berg Y.H.M van den, Lansu T. A.M, Peetz H.K, Mainhard M.T & Cillessen A.H.N (2024), Can classroom seating arrangements help establish a safe environment for victims? A randomized controlled trial, Aggressive Behavior 50(5): 1/15 (22713).
- Hooijdonk M. van, Mainhard M.T., Kroesbergen E.H & Tartwijk J van (2024), Can elementary school teachers assess students’ creative problem solving abilities?, Teaching and Teacher Education 146(104644): 1-10.
- OmarchevskaY, Leeuwen A van & Mainhard M.T (2024), The flipped classroom: first-time student preparatory activity patterns and their relation to course performance and self-regulation, Journal of Computing in Higher Education 36(3): 1/23.
- Endedijk H.M., Swart F. de, Molenaar J., Hammer A., Laros N., Pranger S., van der Stelt E., van Rossum S., van Genderen A., van Hout G., Zee M. & Mainhard M.T. (2023), BeGRP. Bekwaam in gedrag: responsief door perspectief. Leiden: Leiden University. [other].
- Donker M.H., Scheepers D., Gog T. van, Hove A. van den, McIntyre N. & Mainhard M.T. (2023), Handling demanding situations: associations between teachers’ interpersonal behavior, physiological responses, and emotions, The Journal of Experimental Education : 1-19.
- Klunder S., Smit B.H.J, Slegers K., Saab N., Nahon A., Mainhard M.T. & Admiraal W (2023), Meedoen op afstand in een hybride klas: Interactie met leerlingen met een chronische aandoening. Leiden: ICLON, Universiteit Leiden.
- Hoekstra N.A.H., Berg Y.H.M. van den, Lansu T.A.M., Mainhard M.T. & Cillessen A.H.N. (2023), Teachers’ goals and strategies for classroom seating arrangements: a qualitative study, Teaching and Teacher Education 124: 104016.
- Endedijk H.M., Hendrickx M. & Mainhard M.T. (2022), Jij bent hun voorbeeld, Didaktief 2022(1): 1-3.
- Vemde L. van, Donker M.H. & Mainhard T. (2022), Teachers, loosen up! How teachers can trigger interpersonally cooperative behavior in students at risk of academic failure, Learning and Instruction 82: 101687.
- Jaspers W.M., Prins F., Meijer P.C., Mainhard T. & Wubbels T. (2022), Mentor teachers’ intended intervening during student teachers’ lessons: a vignette study in Dutch primary education, Teaching and Teacher Education 117: 103342.
- Roos A., Goetz T., Krannich M., Donker M., Bieleke M., Caltabiano A. & Mainhard T. (2022), Control, anxiety and test performance: self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators, British Journal of Educational Psychology : .
- Pol J. van de, Vries N. de, Poorthuis A.M.G. & Mainhard T. (2022), The questionnaire on teacher support adaptivity (QTSA): reliability and validity of student perceptions, The Journal of Experimental Education : 1-33.
- Mainhard T., Donker M.H. & Gog T. van (2022), When closeness is effortful: teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions, British Journal of Educational Psychology 92(4): 1384-1402.
- Gasser L., Cillessen A.H.N., Huber C., MainhardT., Müller C.M. & Zurbriggen C.L.A. (2022), Editorial: the role of teachers in students' social inclusion in the classroom, Frontiers in Education 7: 830973.
- Hooijdonk M. van, Mainhard T., Kroesbergen E.H. & Tartwijk J. van (2022), Examining the assessment of creativity with generalizability theory: an analysis of creative problem solving assessment tasks✰, Thinking Skills and Creativity 43: 100994.
- Hendrickx M.M.H.G., Kos L.G., Cillessen A.H.N. & Mainhard T. (2022), Reciprocal associations between teacher-student relations and students' externalizing behavior in elementary education? : A within-dyad analysis, Journal of School Psychology 90: 1-18.
- Sun X., Hendrickx M.M.H.G., Goetz T., WubbelsT. & Mainhard T. (2022), Classroom social environment as student emotions' antecedent: mediating role of achievement goals, The Journal of Experimental Education 90(1): 146-157.
- Wubbels T., Mainhard M.T., Brok P. den, Claessens L. & Tartwijk J. van (2022), Classroom management at different timescales: an interpersonal perspective. In: Sabornie E.J. & Espelage D.L. (Eds.) Handbook of classroom management. New York : Routledge. 388-414.
- Educational Director - Onderwijsdirecteur