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Vereijken, Mayke W. C.; van der Rijst, Roeland M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
A central aim of university teaching is to transform students' conceptual understanding of disciplinary knowledge. In order to achieve this, lecturers make decisions on subject matter and teaching approaches. However, there seems to be little attention for the role of subject matter pedagogy in university teaching. This study aims to explore a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Theory Practice Relationship, Academic Education
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van de Werfhorst, Herman G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
In the Dutch stratified secondary educational system, schools vary in how many tracks are offered. While the tendency in the Netherlands is for schools to become smaller, a relevant policy question is whether multi-track school settings promote equality of educational opportunity. Comparing single-track schools at the pre-university and…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Secondary Schools, Prevocational Education, Academic Education
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Pouwels, J. Loes; Valkenburg, Patti M.; Beyens, Ine; van Driel, Irene I.; Keijsers, Loes – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The formation and maintenance of friendship closeness is an important developmental task in adolescence. To obtain insight in real-time processes that may underlie the development of friendship closeness in middle adolescence, this preregistered experience sampling study [ESM] investigated the effects of social media use on friendship closeness.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Friendship, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Baan, Jan; Gaikhorst, Lisa; Volman, Monique L. L. – Professional Development in Education, 2020
In the Netherlands, academically oriented programmes for primary teacher education have recently been established. The aim of this study is to provide insight in the extent to which graduates from these academically oriented programmes are involved in different forms of inquiry-based working and which factors promote or hinder this involvement.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Elementary School Teachers
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Oomen, Annemarie – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2021
Working with groups of parents in career development services in secondary schools is rare practice and little researched. This article focuses on the pedagogy applied in one such intervention, "Parents Turn," supporting family learning and community learning. The secondary analysis of qualitative data collected from parents has been…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Parent Participation, Community Involvement, Career Development
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Witschge, Jacqueline; Rözer, Jesper; van de Werfhorst, Herman G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
In addition to increasing cognitive skills and preparing students for the labour market, one of the core tasks of education is to prepare citizens for participation in democracy. Considering the ideal of democratic equality, it is important to know the degree to which civic outcomes of education are distributed equally. One feature of the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Democracy, Outcomes of Education
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Van der Worp-van der Kamp, L.; Bijstra, J. O.; Pijl, S. J.; Post, W. J.; Minnaert, A. E. M. G. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2018
The on-going academic delay of students with emotional and behavioural disorders (EBD) in special education (SE) is concerning. While students with EBD are capable of acquiring fair academic skills, these outcomes are still not being realised on a larger scale. A plausible explanation for these meagre results might lie in a shortage of instruction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
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Hintz, Florian; Jongman, Suzanne R.; Dijkhuis, Marjolijn; van 't Hoff, Vera; McQueen, James M.; Meyer, Antje S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Lexical access is a core component of word processing. In order to produce or comprehend a word, language users must access word forms in their mental lexicon. However, despite its involvement in both tasks, previous research has often studied lexical access in either production or comprehension alone. Therefore, it is unknown to which extent…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Language Processing, Vocabulary Skills, Language Usage
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Khaled, Anne E.; Gulikers, Judith T. M.; Tobi, Hilde; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Oonk, Carla; Mulder, Martin – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
Research on the effectiveness of competence-based education (CB-education) across educational contexts and levels requires a new evaluation measurement. This study explores the face validity, construct validity, and robustness of a competency self-report instrument that is aligned with contemporary competence theory and with current educational…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Robustness (Statistics), Competence, Measurement Techniques
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Beausaert, Simon A. J.; Segers, M. S. R; Wiltink, Danique P. A. – Educational Research, 2013
Background: Research on the relation between teaching and learning approaches has been mainly conducted in higher education and it is not yet clear to what extent the results can be generalised when it comes to secondary education. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to research how students in secondary education perceive their teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Indo European Languages
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Mulder, Martin; Gulikers, Judith; Biemans, Harm; Wesselink, Renate – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the new (comprehensive) concept of competence and the competence-based education approach are being used in, and perceived as being fruitful for, academic education. Design/methodology/approach: In this explorative and qualitative study individual interviews with representatives of study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Munson, Lynne; Bornfreund, Laura – American Educator, 2010
This article presents the authors' critique of lessons proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21). The authors initiate a discussion about content that they hope will play out in schoolhouses and statehouses across the country. They take on a different task: they present a handful of lesson ideas from P21 that could enhance studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education