Unhealthy eating behaviors and low levels of physical activity are major problems in adolescents and young adults in vocational education. To develop effective intervention programs, more research is needed to understand how different types of motivation contribute to health behaviors. In the present …

Vanwege passend onderwijs krijgen docenten Nederlands in het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (mbo) steeds vaker te maken met studenten met taalontwikkelingsstoornissen (TOS). In het mbo is de term TOS vaak nog onbekend, waardoor studenten met TOS niet altijd worden opgemerkt, terwijl TOS het meest voorkomende …

Purpose The information security field requires standardised education. This could be based on generic job profiles and a standard competence framework. The question is whether this is possible and feasible. To find out, the author did a case study: developing an information security master curriculum …

This article aims to explore the moral ideas and experiences that students at Dutch universities of applied sciences (UAS) have of being a professional with an ‘ethical compass.’Semi-structured interviews were held with 36 fourth-year Bachelor students divided over four institutions and three different …

The covid-19 pandemic has strained organizational systems, with the health care field particularly affected given sudden surges of demand and changes of policy. The pandemic showcases the need to understand how social systems can be resilient to such external shocks. Drawing on ‘joint production motivation' …

Learning environment designs at the boundary of school and work can be characterised as integrative because they integrate features from the contexts of school and work. Many different manifestations of such integrative learning environments are found in current vocational education, both in senior secondary …

Technology students need strong vocational education that supports both cognitive and career development in order to be adequately prepared for highly qualified jobs. The professional identity and underlying I-positions of teachers largely determine whether the quality of teach-ing meets these requirements. …

In hogescholen wordt er meestal in teams gewerkt, maar hoe hogescholen teamwerk vormgeven en uitvoeren is heel verschillend. Veel hogescholen zijn zoekend naar hoe zij dat het beste kunnen doen. In opdracht van Zestor is onderzocht hoe teams binnen hogescholen het meest effectief kunnen functioneren. …

CC-BY-NC-NDObjective: In the past decade, several authors have advocated that formative assessment programmes have an impact on teachers’ knowledge. Consequently, various requirements have been proposed in the literature for the design of these programmes. Only few studies, however, have focused on a …