To adequately deal with the challenges faced within residential care for older people, such as the increasing complexity of care and a call for more person-centred practices, it is important that health care providers learn from their work. This study investigates both the nature of learning, among staff …

The Internet has dramatically changed the business landscape and the way word-of-mouth spreads. The possibilities for small, Internet-depending firms to compete have improved. This study addresses the question how such firms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland deal with word-of-mouth through the …

Er is onderzocht wat het effect is van aanbieding aan de hele groep van de methode Meichenbaum volgens het Igdi-model. Verder is bekeken wat reciprocal teaching kan betekenen voor leerlingen met speciale onderwijsbehoeften op het gebied van taakgerichtheid.

Professional interventions are rarely successful when used to “normalize” the behaviour of a disruptive group of Dutch-Caribbean migrants. Surprisingly a large number of professionals have not succeeded in assimilating a relatively small group. Foucault developed a means of analysing power mechanisms, …

Samenvatting Op welke manier kun je kinderen motiveren om met tekstbegrip aan de slag te gaan? Wat zorgt ervoor dat kinderen gemotiveerd raken? En wat is je rol als leerkracht daarbij? Op deze vragen wordt in dit onderzoek een antwoord gegeven. Uit een nulmeting blijkt dat kinderen heel wisselend denken …

Het komt wel eens voor dat leerkrachten te maken hebben met leerlingen die minder of niet gemotiveerd zijn voor het vak Begrijpend lezen. Ook komt het voor dat leerkrachten zelf in mindere mate gemotiveerd zijn voor dit vak. Voor zowel leerkrachten als leerlingen is het lastig om te achterhalen waar …

We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker’s effort nor manager’s attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a multiple-agent setting, …

In the present study, the role of five categories of characteristics of a reciprocal peer coaching context was studied in relation to teacher learning. Both self-reports and student perceptions were used to measure teacher learning. Data were gathered on 28 secondary school teachers (14 coaching dyads). …

Just what and how eight experienced teachers in four coaching dyads learned during a 1-year reciprocal peer coaching trajectory was examined in the present study. The learning processes were mapped by providing a detailed description of reported learning activities, reported learning outcomes, and the …

Just what and how eight experienced teachers in four coaching dyads learned during a 1-year reciprocal peer coaching trajectory was examined in the present study. The learning processes were mapped by providing a detailed description of reported learning activities, reported learning outcomes, and the …