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Basic motor competencies (BMC) are a prerequisite for children to be physically active, participate in sports and thus develop a healthy, active lifestyle. The present study provides a broad screening of BMC and associations with age, sex, body mass index (BMI) and extracurricular physical activity (PA) …

In het voorjaar van 2018 is een peilingsonderzoek Engels uitgevoerd dat zicht geeft op de Engelse taalvaardigheid van groep 8-basisschoolleerlingen op het gebied van gesprekken voeren, luisteren, lezen en woordenschat. In dit onderzoek is ook aan de deelnemende basisschoolleraren (vanaf nu leerkrachten) …

AbstractIn primary music education an important question is what school teachers can do to stimulate their students’ creative potential in music. To answer this question, looking closely into the creative processes happening in teacher-student interaction in the naturalistic setting of music lessons …

The number of children dealing with behavioural problems is increasing. A major challenge in many health-supportive programmes is the recruitment and retention of these children. In the current study, Sport Mix Club (SMC), an approach to enhance socioemotional disorders of 4- to 12-year-old children …

Social robots have been introduced in different fields such as retail, health care and education. Primary education in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) recently faced new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines including students falling behind and teachers burdened with …

Educational innovations often tend to fail, mainly because teachers and school principals do not feel involved or are not allowed to have a say. Angela de Jong's dissertation shows the importance of school principals and teachers leading 'collaborative innovation' together. Collaborative innovation requires …

Aim of this study 1. To examine the development of motor competence over time in primary school children. 2. To study differences in this development according to the SES of the child’s school district.

The purpose of this research is to find evidence for the assumption that allowing children to create their own news messages is an effective approach to teach them how to distinguish between reliable news and fake news. Three students of the primary teacher training programme of The Hague University …

In veel definities van creativiteit wordt creatief denken beschouwd als iets dat zich enkel in het hoofd afspeelt, zonder dat de rol van het lichaam en de omgeving wordt meegenomen. Door deze eenzijdige definitie van creatief denken te hanteren blijven kansen liggen om in verschillende vakken op de basisschool …