A reflective goal-setting intervention could help students adjust to higher education, and improve their performance and well-being, as has been shown by small-scale and quasi-experimental studies conducted so far. However, a large experimental study found no effects, highlighting the importance of replication, …

Moral food lab: Transforming the food system with crowd-sourced ethics

Evidence-based education (EBE) riep de afgelopen twintig jaar flinke weerstand op vanuit onderwijsonderzoekers en de praktijk. Sommigen gebruiken liever de term evidence-informed. Anderen keren zich compleet tegen de onderneming. Waarom eigenlijk? Hoe goed zijn hun redenen? Martijn Meeter en ik gingen …

Deze workshop staat in het teken van human capital in relatie tot energietransitie. De energietransitie is een wereldwijde uitdaging. In onze regio is het daarbij een doelstelling om na gas ook koploper in Duurzame Energie te worden en te blijven, bijvoorbeeld in waterstof. Hoe zou de regionale human …

One in three university students experiences mental health problems during their study. A similar percentage leaves higher education without obtaining the degree for which they enrolled. Research suggests that both mental health problems and academic underperformance could be caused by students lacking …

Citizen science – the active participation of lay people in research – may yield crucial local knowledge and increase research capacity. Recently, there is growing interest to understand benefits for citizen scientists themselves. We studied the perceived impacts of participation in a public health citizen …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Lower birth weight is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease. These associations may, at least in part, be explained by alterations in dietary intake in later life. The aim of this study is to examine whether lower birth weight is associated with …

Dit voorjaar onderzochten heel wat buurtgenoten de speel- en sportplekken in Slotermeer voor Kijk! Een gezonde wijk. Met een mobieltje in de hand liepen mensen rond en beoordeelden als ware buurtonderzoekers de omgeving. En wat blijkt, Slotermeer doet het behoorlijk goed. De gemeten sport- en speelplekken …

This chapter discusses educational aspects and possibilities of serious games. For researchers as well as game designers we describe key learning theories to ground their work in theoretical framework. We draw on recent metareviews to offer an exhaustive inventory of known learning and affective outcomes …