Background: Retention of movement technique is crucial in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury pre- vention programs. It is unknown if specific instructions or video instructions result in changes in kine- matic and kinetic measures during a relatively short training session, and in a retention test …

There are many different forms of cooperation between schools, day care, after school care and pre-school in the Netherlands. In all cases, coorperation between the different sectors and professionals is expected to improve children's oppurtinities. This chapter is based on the knowledge and experience …

In many Western welfare states, social work services that have traditionally been provided by paid employees are being replaced by family support, community support, informal networks and volunteering. For the field of social work, it is relevant to know what it matters to beneficiaries whether services …

Eighteen years after the introduction of the graphing calculator in national examinations in the Netherlands, much has been learned about the use of technology in education. One of the key lessons was that integrating ICT as a tool for learning math is a complex task, and this complexity is often underestimated. …

This article explores ways to assess interactional performance, and reports on the use of a test format that standardizes the interlocutor’s linguistic and interactional contributions to the exchange. It describes the construction and administration of six scripted speech tasks (instruction-, advice-, …

As a result of the scandal of the biggest social housing supplier "Vestia" in the non-profit rented sector in the Netherlands in 2012 a change is the steering mechanism was desired. The Dutch parliamentary survey committee suggested three possible "purer" alternatives for the current hybrid system, based …

Numerous laboratory-based studies recorded eye movements in participants with varying expertise when watching video projections in the lab. Although research in the lab offers the advantage of internal validity, reliability and ethical considerations, ecological validity is often questionable. Therefore …

Human activity recognition system is of great importance in robot-care scenarios. Typically, training such a system requires activity labels to be both completely and accurately annotated. In this paper, we go beyond such restriction and propose a learning method that allow labels to be incomplete and …

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York Video is increasingly used as an instructional tool. It is therefore becoming more important to improve learning of students from video. We investigated whether student learning effects are influenced through an instruction about other viewing behaviours, …

Dit interventieonderzoek naar de toepassing van peer-teaching in het onderwijs valt onder een paraplu-onderzoek over ‘thuiskunst’. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd op het Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp, een openbare middelbare school voor mavo, havo en vwo. Op dit moment zijn de beeldende vorming lessen …