Primary schools are challenged to continuously improve their teachers' teaching and their students' learning. Through an iterative process, we have developed a method to stimulate teachers to collectively collect and analyze data, derive consequences from their analyses, take actions and evaluate outcomes. …

The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal research programme on basic human values, initiated in the late 1970s. A product of this research is the Atlas of European Values (AoEV), published by the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands for the second time. The …

The main question of this research is: How can we ensure that timber frame housing will be used more in the future and could the issue of sustainability help us succeed this?

Social work is a profession that is very much part of and contributes to an ever changing and evolving society. It is therefore essential that social work is able to respond to the diverse and dynamic demands that it may encounter in that society and in the future. The critique of social work is, however, …

During the last 2 years, the city of Zoetermeer has been one of the research & design locations for the Master project MSc2 Urban Plan & City Analysis. The project was part of the curriculum of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. A group of 18 (inter)national …

In BOP ventures the notion of “selling to the poor” has steadily been replaced by business approaches that suggest sustainable value creation. This has certain implications, in particular the development of strategies that serve triple bottom-line goals. These include economic, social and environmental …

Timing is essentieel tijdens een volleybalsmash. Dit onderzoek is tot stand gekomen door een vraag van de assistent coach van het eerste team van ORTEC Nesselande. De assistent coach vermoedde dat zijn spelers de bal niet op het hoogste punt van hun sprong raakten, tijdens een smash. In dit onderzoek …

Assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the building stock in the earthquake-prone Marmara region of Turkey is of growing importance since such information is needed for reliable estimation of the losses that possible future earthquakes are likely to induce. The outcome of such loss assessment exercises …

The study revealed that the dominant Agricultural extension approaches used in the rice sector in Cameroon is ToT and T&V. The methods of information circulation using these approaches are individual and group methods. The extension approaches has been criticized for its ineffectiveness especially in …