Background: Although medical courses are frequently evaluated via surveys with Likert scales ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree,” low response rates limit their utility. In undergraduate medical education, a new method with students predicting what their peers would say, required fewer …

As part of honors education, there are two dominant ways in which talented students in Dutch secondary vocational education get extracurricular opportunities: (1) participation in honors programs in which a community with peers is central and (2) participation in professional competitions. There is evidence …

In this paper I measure first year student Facebook usage as part of a broader PhD study into the influence of social media usage on the success of students in higher education. A total of 906 students were asked to complete 3 surveys on Facebook usage with their peers, for two consecutive years (2011-2012 …

Falls and fall-related injuries among older adults are associated with decreased health. Therefore, fall prevention programs (FPPs) are increasingly important. However, the translation of such complex programs into clinical practice lacks insight into factors that influence implementation. Therefore, …

This study aimed to evaluate outcomes and support use in 12- to 25-year-old visitors of the @ease mental health walk-in centres, a Dutch initiative offering free counselling by trained and supervised peers.

Het versterken van de leesvaardigheid is een prioriteit voor de Nederlandse overheid, omdat goed tekstbegrip essentieel is voor het leren en voor het functioneren in de maatschappij. Onderzoek wijst uit dat Nederlandse jongeren minder vaardig en minder graag lezen, waardoor effectieve leeslessen nodig …

The organizational aspects of hacktivist networks are seldom studied, withresearch mainly focused on exploratory and descriptive case studies. Tonarrow the gap, we have used the sociological model for the social organiza-tion of deviants developed by Best and Luckenbill (1994). Said model illus-trates …

Financial-economic cyber-enabled crime (hereinafter: financial cybercrime) has increased dramatically over the past years. However, research on financial cybercrime is still underdeveloped and highly heterogeneous, especially regarding the processes of initiation to and desistance from crime. This paper …

Naast haar functie als Corporate Innovation Manager bij Transportnetbeheerder TenneT TSO is Shima Mousavi Gargari ook bijzonder lector Reliable Power Supply bij het lectoraat Balanced Energy Systems van HAN University of Applied Sciences. Bij TenneT is zij bij de Strategy and Partnership units verantwoordelijk …

Contemporary education increasingly involves a blended learning environment, which consists of a combination of offline and online delivery methods. Blended learning environments can motivate students to learn, but designing motivating blended learning environments is challenging and can result in environments …