Background Practical work provides the unique opportunity for students to make a clear connection between their hands-on activities and the underlying minds-on concepts, but research indicates that these possibilities are used relatively little or unsuccessfully. Purpose In this study, lesson design …

Cross-linguistic interaction is a prominent issue in third language (L3) acquisition. The belief that typological similarities are the driving force behind transfer source languages has been rebutted repeatedly. For example, notwithstanding the fact that Dutch–German grammatical parallels are much stronger …

Building on the Minds-On project, this study developed the online module “Celestial Bodies” to enhance hands-on and minds-on learning, providing students with individualised feedback prompts to monitor and identify weaknesses in their understanding. The lesson centred on classifying 14 celestial bodies …

In recente jaren is er toenemende aandacht voor het thema ongelijke stagekansen, een hardnekkig probleem dat zowel het leerrendement als het leerplezier van studenten belemmert. Hoewel kwantitatief onderzoek waardevolle statistische inzichten biedt, is het essentieel om kwalitatief onderzoek te benutten …

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. …

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 …