In this paper, the success of students during their first year at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences at the faculty of Communication and Creative Business (formerly called Media, Information and Communication) will be compared prior to Covid-19 and during Covid-19 in the first year. With the …

“Met de komst van de Jeugdwet in 2015 heeft er een verschuiving plaatsgevonden in het Nederlandse jeugdstelsel. Als gevolg van de Jeugdwet werden gemeenten verantwoordelijk voor het beschikbaar stellen van jeugdhulp. Een van de kernconcepten binnen deze wet omvat het demedicaliseren, ontzorgen en normaliseren …

For my PhD research I build a structural model to predict student success. Initially to show the influence of social media use by first year students in higher education. However, for this research I use the model to investigate the predictive value of a student choice test. This test is mandatory for …

First year undergraduate students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences of two different departments, were asked to join self-reported surveys in two succeeding years. Along with background variables, effort and commitment, the surveys asked elements of engagement. The later was analysed with …

Since 2016, it is mandatory for all future students at the department of Media, Information and Communication, to participate in a study choice test (SCT), prior their enrollment. However, the outcome is not binding and students are still entitled to enter the first year after receiving negative advice. …

In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi …

Het Team Verenigingsondersteuning van de afdeling Sportbedrijf van de Gemeente Tilburg ondersteunt Tilburgse sportverenigingen op bestuurlijk en organisatorisch niveau. In dit praktijk gericht juridisch onderzoek staan de ondersteuningsmogelijkheden van het Team centraal. Het team wil namelijk met dit …

In dit onderzoek is onderzocht op welke manieren een distributieovereenkomst beëindigd kan worden. Allereerst worden de grenzen van de beëindiging van een distributieovereenkomst aangegeven door te kijken naar de definitie van de distributieovereenkomst en de verboden die het mededingingsrecht stelt …

In this research, which is part of my PhD research into the influence of the use of social media in higher education, I have lessened the amount of variables, from Tinto’s integration theory. By including only the best-proven predictive variables, based on previous studies, I avoid the capitalization …

Tinto’s integration theory has highly influenced research on student success in Europe and America. However, due to the complexity of the theory and the enormous amount of variables, the theory is not suitable for use in regular evaluations in higher education. By including only the best-proven predictive …