Abstract: Research in higher education has revealed a significant connection between executive functions (EFs) and study success. Previous investigations have typically assessed EFs using either neuropsychological tasks, which provide direct and objective measures of core EFs components such as inhibition, …

Die schulbasierte Ergotherapie wird im Zuge der Inklusion ein zunehmend relevantes Arbeitsfeld. Dafür benötigen Ergotherapeut*innen entsprechende Assessments. Ziel der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit ist es, die Erfahrungen von Ergotherapeut*innen mit dem School Setting Interviews 3.0 (SSI) und dessen …

WRITIC ist ein betätigungs- und evidenzbasiertes Assessment aus den Niederlanden. Es misst die Handschriftbereitschaft von 5- bis 6-jährigen Vorschulkindern im Kindergartenkontext. Zur internationalen Adaption wurde das Assessment in mehreren Sprachen, darunter auch ins Deutsche, übersetzt. Die vorliegende …

Hundreds of cities and communities in the world have joined the WHO’s Global Network for Age Friendly Cities and Communities since 2010. In order to do quantitative assessments of the age friendliness of cities, the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) was developed for the Dutch …

Ad creativity, based on the originality, meaningfulness, and craftsmanship of a brand message, is widely studied as an important mechanism of advertising success. These studies are based on practitioners’ and consumers’ creativity assessments. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the creativity assessments …

In today’s foreign language (FL) education, teachers universally recognise the importance of fostering students’ ability to communicate in the target language. However, the current assessments often do not (sufficiently) evaluate this. In her dissertation, Charline Rouffet aims to gather insight into …

This chapter explores the legal and moral implications of the use of data science in criminal justice at two levels: police surveillance and the criminal trial of a defendant. At the first level, police surveillance, data science is used to identify places and people at high risk of criminal activity, …

The NDT methods currently used in aviation MRO are predominantly labour-intensive and time-consuming processes performed by human operators throughout the lifespan of an aircraft. These techniques are time-consuming, require perpetual training and are highly dependent on the operator's skills. Thus, …

To enhance our understanding of forest carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and drought impact on forest ecosystems, the availability of high-resolution annual forest growth maps based on tree-ring width (TRW) would provide a significant advancement to the field. Site-specific characteristics, …

Does a rider’s nationality or start order affect their dressage score? How do humans allocate visual focus to assess movement and assign scores? In this episode, Dr. Inga Wolframm is joined by Dr. Peter Reuter to discuss recent research efforts to better understand different sources of bias in judged …