Recent and ongoing curriculum innovations in Dutch secondary chemistry education have led to questions about which concepts should be central in the programme and which contexts should be used to embed these concepts into. Another important question is in the discussions about these innovations is: how …

In 2005 and 2006, almost sixty Dutch National Sport Federations (NSFs) participated in a special program for creating a marketing strategy for the next four years. This program was initiated and organized by NOC*NSF (the Dutch Olympic Umbrella Sports Organization). The NSFs had to joint the project to …

This module of Professionalism in Patient Centred Acute Care Training (PACT) is part of an international multidisciplinary distance learning programme for intensive care training. Editor-in-chief: G. Ramsay Most trainees are involved in some sort of teaching and therefore fulfil trainee and trainer …

Dutch National Sports Organizations (NSFs) is currently experiencing financial pressures. Two indications for this are described in this paper i.e. increased competition in the sports sector and changes in subsidy division. Decreasing incomes from subsidies can be compensated with either increasing incomes …

Soort onderzoek: Literatuuronderzoek Onderzoeksvraag: Is er uit wetenschappelijk onderbouwde fysiotherapeutische therapievormen voor tension-type headache een fysiotherapeutisch behandelprotocol op te stellen dat toepasbaar is in de praktijk? Doelstelling: Een behandelprotocol voor tension-type headache …

Samenvatting Soort onderzoek: Literatuuronderzoek Onderzoeksvraag: Is er uit wetenschappelijk onderbouwde fysiotherapeutische therapievormen voor tension-type headache een fysiotherapeutisch behandelprotocol op te stellen dat toepasbaar is in de praktijk? Doelstelling: Een behandelprotocol voor tension-type …

The research project ‘In search of pedagogical sensitivity’ is executed from the research department of the knowledge circle ‘renewing methods and didactics for teacher education and training’ of the Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands under supervision of Hans Jansen (associated professor of the Hogeschool …

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.

Force transmission across the wrist during a grasping maneuver of the hand was simulated for three children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and for one healthy age-matched child. Joint reaction forces were estimated using a series of springs between articulating bones. This method (i.e., rigid …

Description of a new hand/palm-held computerized 3D force measuring system. The system is built for interface (direct) measurement of 3D manual contact force with real-time data presentation. Static calibration was performed of the 3D force sensor with variable preloads to study their effect as well …