Vocational teachers continuously tailor their teaching to changes in occupational practice, technologies, and student diversity. Teacher professional development is crucial for dealing with these changes. A longitudinal study was conducted to study the professional development activities of vocational …

Having learners (K7–10) acquire system thinking skills is challenging. Together with teachers we deploy qualitative representations of complex systems to enable this learning process. Teachers select their own topics for their leaners to work on which makes that lessons vary in content depending on the …

Background: Differential learning (DL) is a motor learning method characterized by high amounts of variability during practice and is claimed to provide the learner with a higher learning rate than other methods. However, some controversy surrounds DL theory, and to date, no overview exists that compares …

Samenvatting: Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd naar aanleiding van een opdracht voor de Master docent Algemene Economie van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. In afstemming met de onderzoeksschool is er besloten om onderzoek te doen naar een bestaand praktijkprobleem bij het vak bedrijfseconomie. Uit de analyse …

Bij het vak economie is altijd een grote nadruk gelegd op conceptgericht onderwijs. Bij conceptgericht onderwijs wordt gebruikgemaakt van een deductieve aanpak en worden concepttaken uitgevoerd. Het gevaar van deze manier van leren, is dat leerlingen nauwelijks in staat zijn de economische concepten …

Dit interventieonderzoek naar de toepassing van peer-teaching in het onderwijs valt onder een paraplu-onderzoek over ‘thuiskunst’. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd op het Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp, een openbare middelbare school voor mavo, havo en vwo. Op dit moment zijn de beeldende vorming lessen …

At the end of January 2015 I was given a research assignment formulated and sponsored by two professors of professorships (hereafter lectoraten) associated with the Academy for Social Studies (SASS), and the manager of Professionals and Bedrijven (hereafter P&B). At a later stage, the research was expanded …

This study analyses the interactions of students with the recorded lectures. We report on an analysis of students' use of recorded lectures at two Universities in the Netherlands. The data logged by the lecture capture system (LCS) is used and combined with collected survey data. We describe the process …

Professional development of teacher educators is an important issue. In order to be able to teach the teachers of the future, teacher educators have to keep their own knowledge and skills 'future proof'. When it comes to professional development, very often people think of 'attending courses'. But attending …

Introduction and theoretical background Professional development of teacher educators is an important issue because in order to be able to teach the teachers of the future, teacher educators have to keep their own knowledge and skills 'future proof' (Kools, 2011a). A lot of professional development …