Dit praktijkgericht onderzoek gaat over leesbeleving en welke invloed storytelling en schrijfopdrachten hierop kunnen hebben. Als onderzoekstrategie is gekozen voor een combinatie van een actie- en een ontwerpgericht onderzoek. Het doel is om met andere onderwijsvormen de leesbeleving in positieve zin …

Education and the so-called Matthew effect (the rich get richer, the poor get poorer) are inextricably linked. Over forty years ago, the psychologist Stanovisch was the first who demonstrated that children who achieve the intended results of education early (reading, writing and math skills) have a lifelong …

The primary source for young children's vocabulary development is parent-child interaction. How parent-child interaction influences vocabulary depends on the child's functioning and the family context. Although research shows the effect of the family context on vocabulary (e.g., reading activities at …

In dit praktijkgericht onderzoek staat de relatie tussen rekenen en taal centraal. De verlegenheidssituatie heeft duidelijk gemaakt dat zwakke lezers een andere didactische aanpak nodig hebben om vaardiger te worden in het oplossen van toepassingsopgaven. Na bestudering van de theorie gericht op toepasbare …

Since it is insufficiently clear to urban planners in the Netherlands to what extent design measures can reduce heat stress and which urban spaces are most comfortable, this study evaluates the impact of shading, urban water, and urban green on the thermal comfort of urban spaces during hot summer afternoons. …

In this paper, I propose an affective-formalist reading of what I call the affective affordances of disability; the way in which the representation of disability is able to move us. Through a comparative reading of two artworks, Michelangelo's David and Berlinde de Bruyckere's Into One-another Ill, to …

Human prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that artificial intelligence algorithms …

In the four studies comprising this dissertation, we aim to shed more light on the role of implementation quality of FLPs. In the first study, we reviewed the literature on implementation quality of FLPs, to gain insight into how implementation has been assessed in studies so far, what previous studies …

The present study investigated whether text structure inference skill (i.e., the ability to infer overall text structure) has unique predictive value for expository text comprehension on top of the variance accounted for by sentence reading fluency, linguistic knowledge and metacognitive knowledge. Furthermore, …

Presented at the 14th 14th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance ECMLG 2018: From the article: "Online shopping in The Netherlands is rapidly becoming more popular and many web-shops are aiming to develop improved customer journeys. As a consequence pure play web-shops switch …