Samenvatting: Veel startende leerkrachten in het basisonderwijs voelen zich niet goed in staat om adequaat in te spelen op ongewenst gedrag van leerlingen, hetgeen kan resulteren in gevoelens van onmacht, onzekerheid en incompetentie. Deze handelingsverlegenheid raakt een wezenlijke kern van hun professionaliteit, …

This article explores ways to assess interactional performance, and reports on the use of a test format that standardizes the interlocutor’s linguistic and interactional contributions to the exchange. It describes the construction and administration of six scripted speech tasks (instruction-, advice-, …

Teaching history usually focuses on understanding the past as an aim in itself. Research shows that many students have difficulty in seeing the point of this and often perceive history as useless, or, even if they think history is useful, do not know very well how to make use of it. Yet history plays …