In learning and development, self-regulation can be described as the extent to which individuals are metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviourally proactive participants in their learning process (Zimmerman, 1989, 2006). We examined the relationship between self-regulation and performance level …

Evaluation of the effect of Problem Based Learning course

Introduction and theoretical background In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the specific position of beginning teacher educators. In the book 'Becoming a teacher Educator' (Swennen & Van der Klink, 2009) several chapters deal with this subject. In conclusion, teacher educators …

Off the coast of Mauritius there is a small islet of just 7 hectares, covered in coral reef, named Ile aux Aigrettes. this islet is maintened by the Mauritian Wildlife Faundation and opened to the public to show the natural heritage of Mauritius. Many species living in Mauritius cannot be found anywhere …

Background: On two Care Innovation Units in the Netherlands, staff, students and Lecturer Practitioners work intensively together to provide care, create a rich learning environment, and to foster innovation and research. In striving to advance the quality of care and to develop person centred cultures …

As part of a government-initiated programme based on the concept of professional development schools, three secondary schools in Amsterdam decided to facilitate teachers in their schools to engage in practice research. This was based on the assumption that research conducted by teachers contributes both …

This presentation compares the two main gifted education programmes for undergraduate students in the Netherlands and Germany. The programmes were evaluated and will be compared in terms of the institutions involved, the educational objectives pursued, the nature of support provided to the students, …

This article presents teachers' adjustments to the CCBE (comprehensive competence-based) model in order to create a valid instrument that assess the 'competentiveness' of study programmes. It shows that the revised model indeed has good content validity and provides a solid instrument to position study …

This article provides a construct to monitor and analyse students' personal knowledge development: 'personal professional theory' (PPT). It aims to investigate the development of the content and nature of students' PPTs and their perceptions of learning processes in vocational education during school-based …

The main purpose of the research was the development and testing of an assessment tool for the grading of Dutch students' performance in information problem solving during their study tasks. Scholarly literature suggests that an analytical scoring rubric would be a good tool for this.Described in this …