The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students’ participation …

Learning by creating qualitative representations is a valuable approach to learning. However, modelling is challenging for students, especially in secondary education. Support is needed to make this approach effective. To address this issue, we explore automated support provided to students while they …

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam heeft samen met drie andere hogescholen de KindcentrumScan ontwikkeld. Dit instrument is bedoeld om de samenwerking tussen kinderopvang, primair onderwijs en verschillende partners uit welzijn en jeugdhulp in kaart te brengen.

In de zomer van 2024 onderzochten we de impact van het zomerbrugprogramma voor eerstegeneratiestudenten van de HvA. We deden dit in samenwerking met onderzoekers Tieme Janssen, Felicitas Biwer, Niklas Wenzel en Sanne van Herpen, en met Mohammed Skori, Aimee Kaandorp en Sabina Nahar van Studentenzaken. …

Professionals werken steeds vaker samen over de grenzen van hun eigen vakgebieden heen om de leef-wereld en ontwikkeling van kinderen en jongeren te verbeteren. Deze interprofessionele samenwerking brengt professionals uit verschillende disciplines, ouders en verzorgers samen, waarbij iedereen vanuit …

In secondary school philosophy classes students learn to reason critically about social and scientific issues. This study examined the effects of a whole-class, teacher-led philosophy classroom dialogue intervention on students’ value-loaded critical thinking. Value-loaded critical thinking is logically …

Thinking back and forth between observing physical phenomena and developing scientific ideas, also known as hands-on and minds-on learning, is essential for the development of scientific reasoning in primary science education. In the Netherlands, inquiry-based learning is advocated as the preferred teaching …

Practical work provides the opportunity for students to make a connection between hands-on activities and minds-on concepts. In this study, lesson design principles were investigated for stimulating Thinking-Back-and-Forth (TBF) between hands-on and minds-on aspects. Nine practical lessons intended to …

In de aangescherpte wet burgerschapsonderwijs en in de nieuwe kerndoelen voor het burgerschapsonderwijs spelen democratische waarden een centrale rol: leerlingen moeten hier kennis van hebben en scholen hebben een inspanningsverplichting om “basiswaarden van de democratische rechtsstaat te bevorderen”. …