This study focuses on students’ approaches to learning, particularly in innovative learning environments. A person-oriented research perspective was chosen to search for nuances and details that add to existing knowledge on secondary students’ learning. The relation between students’ goal orientations, …

The impacts of the current food system and the consequences for future generations lead to the need of taking action in form of a dietary shift towards more plant-based diets. It is believed that this transition will not only benefit people’s wellbeing, but also prevents an exhausting exploitation of …

Dit onderzoek beschrijft de task en ego orientations van de sporters van het AAA team van de KNBSB en de validatie van een sportspecifieke werptest naar het meten van de mindset van sporters. U18 spelers (43 jongens) vulden de Task en Ego Goal Orientation in Sport Questionnaire in en voerden een sportspecifieke …

Full text via link. The goal of this study is to examine the impact of Self-leadership styles on the dimensions of Entrepreneurial Orientations in organisations in Dubai and the Netherlands: Innovativeness, Risk Taking and Proactiveness. The study also distinguishes the impact of Self-leadership styles …

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations between goal orientations, information processing strategies and development of conceptual knowledge of pre-vocational secondary education students (n=719; 14 schools). Students' preferences for certain types of goals and information processing strategies …

The central goal of this study is to clarify to what degree former education and students' personal characteristics (the 'Big Five personality characteristics', personal orientations on learning and students' study approach) may predict study outcome (required credits and study continuance). Analysis …

Veel scholen in het Nederlandse voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (vmbo) hebben de laatste jaren initiatieven genomen om vormen van competentiegericht onderwijs in te voeren. Drie aspecten van het leren van leerlingen in competentiegericht onderwijs lijken van bijzonder belang te zijn, namelijk …

Students' educational careers in Higher Education: a search into key factors regarding study outcome One of the political goals of the EU is to develop 'the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010'. The Dutch knowledge economy faces an increased demand for highly-educated inhabitants, …

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations between goal orientations, information processing strategies and development of conceptual knowledge of pre-vocational secondary education students (n=719; 14 schools). Student preferences for certain types of goals and information processing strategies …

The purpose of this study was to validate a causal and hierarchical model that describes the relations between goal orientations, information processing strategies and development of conceptual knowledge of pre-vocational secondary education-students (n=719; 14 schools). Preferences of students for certain …