Formative assessment can be understood as assessment for learning rather than of learning. Research has demonstrated that formative assessment/feedback is strongly and causally related to students’ achievement in higher education. At Avans University of Applied Sciences, the first-year course Mechanics …

Purpose: The Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is the only malnutrition (risk) assessment tool that combines patient-generated measures with professional-generated (medical) factors. We aimed to apply international standards to produce a high quality, validated, translation …

Most experienced user researchers will recognise the following: When doing a user test, the things participants say during the interview not always match their facial expressions or how they acted during the test. They seem unable to explain what they, unconsciously, feel or think. To counter this behaviour, …

Dit artikel is een samenvatting van het artikel: The convergent validity of a Dutch Screening tool for Dysphagia (Signaleringslijst Verslikken) for people with severe or profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019, 32, 994–1001.1

Background Refugees encounter texts such as course books, pamphlets and exams during mandatory integration in the Netherlands. Texts present explicit or implicit messages to refugees on “successful” integration and citizenship. The What’s the Problem Represented to Be? (WPR) approach from Carol Bacchi, …

The sport sponsoring has become a marketing tool used frequently. In the course of time, social media platforms developed. In addition social media personalities got popular, as well as sponsoring in the equestrian sport. This research project aim was to found characteristics for the selection of sponsored …

Background: To experience external objects in such a way that they are perceived as an integral part of one's own body is called embodiment. Wearable technology is a category of objects, which, due to its intrinsic properties (eg, close to the body, inviting frequent interaction, and access to personal …

This article highlights the psychological dimension of social learning. Insights from psychology address the interrelated role of personal and group dynamics in social learning. This can provide a useful starting point for a rewarding use of social learning as an analytical tool in co-creative planning. …

Aim: To develop an understanding of how nurses obtain and take account of patient preferences in shared decision-making processes in evidence-based practice to provide personalized nursing care. Design: Qualitative grounded theory. Methods: This research was part of a PhD study successfully completed …

The municipality of Bergen op Zoom is assuming to overlook climate change problems and possibilities. They are missing knowledge on how to deal with a dry period. This is the reason of the requested for a research on the drought problematic. They want to know how different departments and inhabitants …