Purpose As oral communication in higher education is vital, good classroom acoustics is needed to pass the verbal message to university students. Non-auditory factors such as academic language, a non-native educational context and a diversity of acoustic settings in different types of classrooms affect …

Student-teacher relationships in higher education take place in two embedded social contexts: the in-class environment and the educational institute in which the in-class environment is situated. The interplay between the two contexts and their association with students’ motivation was studied in the …

Financial Literacy is an essential competence in societies depending on individual responsibility and self-sufficiency. The purpose of this dissertation is to assess current levels of financial literacy among ninth-grade high school students in the Netherlands in order to identify which groups are particularly …

Occupational therapists consider community-centered practices such as community development essential practice domains. In some parts of the world, community development is strongly embedded in occupational therapy practice, while in other places this approach is emerging and need strengthening. This …

Only a few efforts have been made to define competencies for epidemiologists working in academic settings. Here we describe a multi-national effort to define competencies for epidemiologists who are increasingly facing emerging and potentially disruptive technological and societal health trends in academic …

Abstract Purpose: The pharmacology and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) education during the undergraduate medical curriculum of NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal, was changed from a traditional programme (i.e. discipline-based, lectures) to a problem-based learning (PBL) programme (i.e. …

Het kritisch denken van studenten bevorderen is een belangrijke doelstelling van het hoger onderwijs. Docenten spelen een cruciale rol in het realiseren hiervan. Desondanks is er weinig bekend over hoe zij hierin ondersteund kunnen worden. Hoofddoel van het promotieonderzoek van Eva Janssen was om een …

Gepubliceerd in Medical Teacher, 17-10-2020, Taylor & Francis Online https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/imte20/current?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4bTGiZrs7wIVSBV7Ch3GzAAbEAAYASAAEgKAMfD_BwE CC-BY-NC-ND With an increasingly ageing population there will be a rising demand for palliative care, including from older …

Doel van onderzoek is herontwerpen en testen van leereenheid Jeugdzorg op basis van inzet ‘samenwerkend leren, ondersteund door technologie’. Ogenschijnlijk is er ‘tevredenheid’ over de uitgevoerde leereenheid waarin studententeams een gezamenlijk product moeten opleveren, maar tegelijkertijd wordt slechts …

This study reports the outcomes of a systematic literature review, which aims to determine the influence of four indoor environmental parameters — indoor air, thermal, acoustic, and lighting conditions —on the quality of teaching and learning and on students' academic achievement in schools for higher …