In small businesses with no employees, learning environments have a low learning readiness. Consequently, learners need to rely on their own agency to shape their learning experiences. Results from a study of agricultural entrepreneurs indicated that the components of motivation and self-regulated learning …

Er is sprake van een ontwerpgericht praktijkonderzoek. De interventie in dit onderzoek is na literatuurstudie tot stand gekomen. Het beoogt een directe verbetering van de onderwijspraktijk voor het aanvankelijk technisch lezen in groep 3. Het is tevens een experiment. Er wordt gewerkt met een experimentele …

Chapter 2 in Impacts of Emerging Economies and Firms on International Business. One of the most remarkable phenomena of recent times is that a large number of firms from emerging economies have come to define and dominate new markets and enter the class of global innovation leaders. Firms that once specialized …

In vocational rehabilitation, empowerment is understood as the notion that people should make an active, autonomous choice to find their way back to the labour process. Following this line of reasoning, the concept of empowerment implicitly points to a specific kind of activation strategy, namely labour …

A model for programmatic assessment in action is proposed that optimizes assessment for learning as well as decision making on learner progress. It is based on a set of assessment principles that are interpreted from empirical research. The model specifies cycles of training, assessment and learner support …

Het Nederlandse Hoger Onderwijs richt zich steeds meer op het bevorderen van excellentie onder studenten. Honoursprogramma’s en Colleges bieden talentvolle en gemotiveerde studenten nieuwe mogelijkheden. Volgens afspraken tussen het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap en de Nederlandse universiteiten …

Background: On two Care Innovation Units in the Netherlands, staff, students and Lecturer Practitioners work intensively together to provide care, create a rich learning environment, and to foster innovation and research. In striving to advance the quality of care and to develop person centred cultures …

Teaching strategies to elicit excellence in higher education.In L. McAlpine (Chair), An international perspective on stimulating excellence in higher education. Symposium: An international perspective on stimulating excellence in higher education, conducted at the biennale meeting of the European Association …

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 …

Conducting research as part of a PhD study offers students a unique opportunity to explore new methods and methodologies. Although we each based our PhD studies on a more traditional participatory action research (PAR) methodology, we also took the opportunity to experiment with a new data analysis method. …