Poster - Nudging the Student for study success: a long-term experiment in a Dutch University of Applied Sciences WINK Conference June 23-24 2017 Utrecht, the Netherlands

Evidence on the application of nudges to increase study success is scarce. Yet, the application of nudges in educational contexts could be a promising, low cost method to improve study success.

When studying the acquisition of social-communicative competence, it is important to take students' individual learning theories into account. Increased insight into the role ILTs play can be of help in improving social work education.

This article reports on a study concerning relationships between personality traits and three aspects of Individual Learning Theories (ILTs) on acquiring social-communicative competence: self-perceived social-communicative competence, domain-related learning conceptions and preferred learning situations. …