This study investigated whether an instructional intervention can increase students’ self-regulated use of retrieval practice in a higher education classroom environment. A lab-experiment by Ariel and Karpicke (2017) revealed that strategy instructions improved students’ self-regulated use of retrieval …

Data collected from fitness trackers worn by employees could be very useful for businesses. The sharing of this data with employers is already a well-established practice in the United States, and companies in Europe are showing an interest in the introduction of such devices among their workforces. …

Background : Differences in professional practice might hinder initiation of student participation during international placements, and thereby limit workplace learning. This study explores how healthcare students overcome differences in professional practice during initiation of international placements.  …

Over the past decades, laws and regulations have been incorporating obligations for major organisations in almost all sectors of society to integrate risk management in their governance. Against this background, this study focused on the degree and the way in which legal departments of Dutch organisations …

ACHTERGROND MDMA (ecstasy) is een relatief veilige drug en induceert weinig afhankelijkheid, maar staat desondanks samen met andere harddrugs op lijst I van de Nederlandse Opiumwet. Bezorgdheid over de aan MDMA gerelateerde criminaliteit, het aantal gezondheidsincidenten en de mogelijk onterechte plaatsing …

This paper investigates the prospective application of arbitration by Transnational Private Regulation (TPR). It builds on the study of TPR developed by Fabrizio Cafaggi et al. TPR addresses the ever-increasing transfer of regulatory power from national to global levels, and from public to private regulators. …

In the Netherlands, there is an increasing need for collective forms of housing for older people. Such housing bridges the gap between the extremes of living in an institutionalised setting and remaining in their own house. The demand is related to the closure of many residential care homes and the need …

Problem-solving tasks form the backbone of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curricula. Yet, how to improve self-monitoring and self-regulation when learning to solve problems has received relatively little attention in the self-regulated learning literature (as compared with, …

The potato is one of the most important staple crops for human consumption. However around 40-50% of the annual global potato production is thrown away. Two major causes of quality loss and the rejection of many potato tubers, by both the consumer and the processing industry, are greening and glycoalkaloid …

Background: Research on maternity care often focuses on factors that prevent good communication and collaboration and rarely includes important stakeholders – parents – as co-researchers. To understand how professionals and parents in Dutch maternity care accomplish constructive communication and collaboration, …