Concerns about the resilience of democracy are accompanied by calls for schools to strengthen their citizenship education. This article describes the findings from the Dutch participation in an international comparative study in 2022 on the citizenship competences of young people in the second grade …

In this workshop we present three lesson activities to teach core (astro)physics concepts at pre-university level which students find difficult to grasp with traditional interventions: star properties, star states and the fusion-gravity balance. In each activity, students construct and simulate a conceptual …

Binnen het partnerschap Samen Opleiden in en rond Amsterdam is aan de hand van de bekwaamheidseisen een methodiek ontwikkeld om de kloof tussen theorie en praktijk te verkleinen en om studenten inzicht te geven in de eigen ontwikkeling: de Amsterdamse Leer-Kracht-Lijn (ALKL). Als eerste stap hebben we …

Understanding the behaviour of parallel circuits is challenging for many students. In this paper, we present a lesson designed to support students in learning about parallel circuits by constructing a qualitative representation. Qualitative representations are non-numerical models that focus on causal …

Background: The quality of care given by EMS staff is in part monitored by routine review of deployment reports that the providers must complete after each deployment. The assessment consists of determining whether a deployment was performed in a medically correct manner and thus whether the clinical …

Building on the Minds-On project, this study developed the online module “Celestial Bodies” to enhance hands-on and minds-on learning, providing students with individualised feedback prompts to monitor and identify weaknesses in their understanding. The lesson centred on classifying 14 celestial bodies …

De podcastserie "De bescheidenheid voorbij" is een podcast over ondernemers uit Noord-Nederland. In deze serie gaat Mira Bloemen-Bekx, lector Regionaal Innovatie Vermogen aan de Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, in gesprek met inspirerende ondernemers uit Noord-Nederland, die hun bescheidenheid opzij zetten …

Learning by creating qualitative representations is a valuable approach to learning. However, modelling is challenging for students, especially in secondary education. Support is needed to make this approach effective. To address this issue, we explore automated support provided to students while they …

In this paper, we focus on how the qualitative vocabulary of Dynalearn, which is used for describing dynamic systems, corresponds to the mathematical equations used in quantitative modeling. Then, we demonstrate the translation of a qualitative model into a quantitative model, using the example of an …

Een online methode helpt docenten om leerlingen te laten discussiëren over maatschappelijke onderwerpen. Bij maatschappelijk relevante onderwerpen met een atuurwetenschappelijke component speelt meningsvorming een belangrijke rol. Leerlingen moeten kritisch leren denken en hun mening onderbouwen met …