Low-achieving adolescents are known to have difficulties with reading comprehension. This article discusses whether principles of reciprocal teaching can improve low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension in whole-classroom settings and to what extent treatment effects are dependent on implementation …

In Leer ze lezen, praktische inzichten uit onderzoek voor leraren basisonderwijs zijn 23 kernpublicaties uit de schatkamer van het internationale onderzoek bijeengebracht. Leesonderzoekers Amos van Gelderen, Kees de Glopper en Roel van Steensel selecteerden 23 kernartikelen over de fundamenten van goed …

Handreiking voor ondernemerscompetenties In deze handreiking worden de belangrijkste inzichten uit het ondernemerschaps- (onderwijs)onderzoek gepresenteerd, geënt op het Europese EntreComp-raamwerk in 2016. In de afzonderlijke hoofdstukken komen de vijftien competenties uit EntreComp aan bod. Voor elke …

This guide accompanies the following article: Van der Pluijm, M., Lusse, M., Van Gelderen, A., & Kessels, J. (2020), Creating partnerships between schools and lower-educated parents to enhance young children's language development: A formative evaluation. Review of Education https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.324 …

Parental support is critical for young children’s language and literacy development. It is important that teachers are aware of this parental role. Particularly in the case of lower‐educated parents, teachers can improve their education when they engage parents in partnerships to support young children’s …

Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus …

Course materials play a vital role in the foreign language classroom. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to analyzing the activities that foster oral interactional ability in EFL course materials. For the purpose of this study, a coding scheme was designed that focuses specifically on …

Background There has been an increasing interest in negative or ‘undermining’ motivations for reading. In this study, we aimed to strengthen knowledge on the validity of the distinction between affirming and undermining motivations. First, we examined whether the structure of a questionnaire based on …

For the present review, we analyzed 28 studies researching the effects of interventions for parents with less education on the oral language development of their young children (ages 3–8). Two groups of interventions were distinguished: shared reading and other home activities. Within each group, we …