The cultivation of intrinsic motivation is key in the 21th century, but most students in Dutch vocational education lack this quality. To foster intrinsic motivation, a strong career-learning environment is needed that enables students to develop career competencies and a career identity. However such …

Purpose: The main purpose of the research was to measure reliability and validity of the Scoring Rubric for Information Literacy (Van Helvoort, 2010). Design/methodology/approach: Percentages of agreement and Intraclass Correlation were used to describe interrater reliability. For the determination …

De effecten van robotisering en digitalisering. Welke concrete veranderingen hebben plaatsgevonden op het werk en welke competenties zijn of worden essentieel om het werk te kunnen blijven uitvoeren?

Reflection is considered necessary and beneficial within career learning and is deemed to be a condition for successful career-identity development. Indeed, reflection is generally seen as a key competency in learning how to respond effectively to a complex and dynamic post-modern world in which individuals …

We set out to bring into being a Creative Methods issue to inform and support researchers, practitioners, educators, and those they serve. We did so with what William Blake called “a firm persuasion” (Whyte, 2001, p. 3), and in the process of expanding the vidence-base for creative methods in guidance …

Writing as soul work refers to the active engagement of students in transformative writing activities in a group setting with the aim to enable students to develop new, more empowering narratives. This article explains how soul work through writing can be used to foster career adaptability, expressed …

The purpose of the research was to provide academic staff with insights into their own information behavior and to motivate them to refer to relevant, accurate and reliable resources in their own course materials. To achieve this we used a participative research approach. Six participants assessed course …

Op 15 september verdedigde Jos van Helvoort, docent aan De Haagse Hogeschool, in de Amsterdamse Agnietenkapel zijn proefschrift over het beoordelen van informatievaardigheden in het hoger onderwijs. In het boek staat een door hem ontwikkelde ‘Scoringsrubriek voor Informatievaardigheden’ centraal. …

Informatievaardigheden hebben betrekking op het oplossen van problemen of vraagstukken met behulp van informatie van het internet of uit een al of niet digitale bibliotheek. In het hoger onderwijs wordt er veel waarde aan gehecht dat studenten over deze vaardigheden beschikken. Maar hoe beoordeel je …

This chapter describes the use of a scoring rubric to encourage students to improve their information literacy skills. It will explain how the students apply the rubric to supply feedback on their peers’ performance in information problem solving (IPS) tasks. Supplying feedback appears to be a promising …