Fostering Excellence in Higher Education through Honors. Keynote lecture at Seminar: Excellence in education, Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance (NOKUT) in Education, Asker, Norway. 4 november 2015

Background and purpose: Treatment plan verification of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is generally performed with the gamma index (GI) evaluation method, which is difficult to extrapolate to clinical implications. Incorporating Dose Volume Histogram (DVH) information can compensate for this. …

In opdracht van Combird, een dienstverlener van communicatieoplossingen, is in de periode november 2013 t/m maart 2014 de afstudeeropdracht “Quality assurance in een VoIP-omgeving” uitgevoerd. Dit project heeft als doelstelling een oplossing te ontwikkelen voor het verkrijgen van controle op externe …

Theme: Quality Assurance in Higher Education An online tool was developed for (potential) students to assess the congruence between the characteristics of an educational program and student preferences (Butter & Van Raalten, 2010)

De aanleiding voor dit rapport is het kwalitatief verbeteren van de processen en procedures van Aegon PPI. Aegon PPI is een pensioenuitvoerder die haar klanten een eenvoudige en betaalbare pensioenregeling biedt. Aegon PPI is verantwoordelijk voor het binnenhalen van nieuwe klanten tot het uitvoeren …

PURPOSE: Advanced radiotherapy treatments require appropriate quality assurance (QA) to verify 3D dose distributions. Moreover, increase in patient numbers demand efficient QA-methods. In this study, a time efficient method that combines model-based QA and measurement-based QA was developed; i.e., the …

Paper presented at the CARPE Conference Manchester 2013 Various programs in higher education feel a need to teach project management skills to students. Measuring the effect of education is a challenge especially when focused on behavioral skills. Research on learning gains often turns to the method …

Although quality management has a long tradition and plays an important role in operational and managerial activities in organizations nowadays, it also seems to be less clear and less visible. In this paper the focus is on the rise and fall of quality management in organizations and the impact this …

This research is conducted in Ghana for Aqua Vitens Rand Limited, acting as operator of the water systems of the Ghana Water Company Ltd. This research was part of the minor Development Cooperation from the The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The research consisted of a field trip of 7 weeks to …

In the European policies to increase the quality of teachers, much attention is given to the upgrading of qualifications. However, in European debates on teacher education, e.g. within the context of the Education & Training 2020 program, discussions about the qualification level are mostly restricted …