Serious games foster the acquisition of complex problem-solving skills. Assessment of such skills should be in line with instruction, and within a serious game environment its content validity should equal face-to-face assessment. Research on assessment in serious gaming has remained rather scarce. This …

Research conducted by Henk van den Hurk shows that teachers’ knowledge of effective instructional behaviour is of limited influence on their actual performance in daily teaching. Observing teachers within their own educational practice and the subsequent feedback in teacher training college, however, …

From the publisher's website: Large groups in society, in particular people with low literacy, lack the necessary proactivity and problem-solving skills to be self-reliant. One omnipresent problem area where these skills are relevant regards filling in forms and questionnaires. These problems could be …

This article focuses on moral authorship as an element of the professional development of novice teachers in the Netherlands. Moral authorship refers to the ability of teachers to observe, identify, verbalize and reflect on the moral aspects of their work in a proactive and dialogical manner. We elaborate …

Kenniscentrum Educatie rapportnummer 16-03 In de regio Utrecht-Amersfoort hebben vijf academische basisscholen vanaf het schooljaar 2012-2013 deelgenomen aan het vierjarige schoolverbeteringsproject: het Academische Opleidingsscholen project (AOS-project). Het uiteindelijke doel van het project was …

In het boek ‘Wat ik nou toch heb meegemaakt!’ Verslag van een jaar dakloosheid neemt Wim de lezer mee in de wereld van dakloosheid in Utrecht. Op zich is dat verhaal niet uniek: Utrecht telt gemiddeld ongeveer 100 dak- en thuislozen, waarvan Wim er dus één was. De voornaamste reden dat iemand dakloos …

Explicit language objectives are included in the Swedish national curriculum for mathematics. The curriculum states that students should be given opportunities to develop the ability to formulate problems, use and analyse mathematical concepts and relationships between concepts, show and follow mathematical …

Het hoger beroepsonderwijs, betogen René Butter en Wilke van Beest, zou krachtiger moeten inzetten op het opleiden van professionals-met-impact. Alleen zij kunnen de toegevoegde waarde leveren die nodig is om de toekomstige uitdagingen in deze snel veranderende wereld aan te gaan.

This chapter was published in the book Work in progress (eds. Jeroen van den Eijnde, Peter Joore, Karin van Beurden ), that is available on reserachgate : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320757257_Work_In_Progress_-_Design_Research_by_Universities_of_Applied_Sciences

Social workers nowadays are confronted with recurrent issues about religion and spirituality when in contact with diverse client groups. This was also the case in the beginning of the profession around 1900, in Europe as well as in the US. This study analyses the work of a Dutch pioneer in social work, …