Dit praktijkgericht onderzoek vertrekt vanuit de wens om studenten van de opleiding bachelor lager onderwijs meer te laten gebruik maken van effectieve leerstrategieën. De verwachte opbrengst is enerzijds dat de studenten door meer effectieve leerstrategieën te gebruiken de leeruitkomsten van de opleidingsonderdelen …

There is a need for effective methods to teach critical thinking. Many studies on other skills have demonstrated beneficial effects of practice that repeatedly induces retrieval processes (repeated retrieval practice). The present experiment investigated whether repeated retrieval practice is effective …

Cumulative assessment refers to interspersed testing in which each assessment covers all previous content and the mean assessments’ grade weighs in for the final exam grade. The effect of cumulative assessment on motivation and performance might differ between summative (i.e. assessment grades weigh …

This study investigated whether an instructional intervention can increase students’ self-regulated use of retrieval practice in a higher education classroom environment. A lab-experiment by Ariel and Karpicke (2017) revealed that strategy instructions improved students’ self-regulated use of retrieval …

Procrastination – delaying the start or completion of intended work – is extremely common among higher education students. The situation in Materials Science 1 course is a point in case. Students in this course tended to postpone their learning activities until just before the end-of-course assessment. …

The historically developed practice of learning to play a music instrument from notes instead of by imitation or improvisation makes it possible to contrast two types of skilled musicians characterized not only by dissimilar performance practices, but also disparate methods of audiomotor learning. In …

Background The testing effect is the finding that information that is retrieved during learning is more often correctly retrieved on a final test than information that is restudied. According to the semantic mediator hypothesis the testing effect arises because retrieval practice of cue-target pairs …

Onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat er twee soorten perceptie bestaan die langs gescheiden anatomische routes lopen en verschillende perceptuele doelen dienen. Deze routes staan bekend als de ventrale en dorsale route, of in de volksmond: de ‘wat’ en de ‘hoe’ route. De ventrale route staat ten dienste van …

Situated learning plays a key role in internships and other practice-based learning settings in teacher education. The dominant assumption for a long time has been that the development of teaching competency is advanced most through practical teaching experience and post-lesson conferences between mentor …