Centre for Applied Research in Education
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Evaluating opportunities in Dutch EFL course books for developing pre-vocational learners’ oral interactional ability
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationCourse materials play a vital role in the foreign language classroom. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to analyzing the activities that foster oral interactional ability in EFL course materials. ...
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Performance assessment as a diagnostic tool for science teachers
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationInformation on students’ development of science skills is essential for teachers to evaluate and improve their own education, as well as to provide adequate support and feedback to the learning process of ...
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Maladaptive behavior in relation to the basic psychological needs of students in secondary education
15 July 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationMuch research has been done into the relationship between students’ motivation to learn and their basic psychological needs as defined by the self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, relatedness). ...
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Fostering students’ appraisals of the relevance of history by comparing analogous cases of an enduring human issue
22 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationAlthough history standards generally aim at developing historical consciousness among secondary school students, there is not much research-based knowledge to support making connections between the past, the present ...
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Connecting past and present through case-comparison learning in history
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationHistory education frequently aims at developing active citizenship by using the past to orientate to the present and the future. A pedagogy for pursuing this aim is making connections between the past and the present ...
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Boosting learners’ self-confidence, enjoyment and willingness to interact in the language classroom.
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThis introduction to the special issue provides an overview of the role of practice in a second language (L2) from both pedagogical and theoretical perspectives.
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Development and validation of the Religious Collective Self-Esteem scale for children
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThis study aimed to validate a Religious Collective Self-Esteem Scale (RCSES) that assesses children’s evaluations and judgments about their belonging to a religious group. The RCSES includes 3 subscales: ...
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Compensating or reproducing?
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationStudies show that adolescents that follow a higher educational track have more positive experiences than those of lower levels with aspects of democracy, such as decision-making or discussions. In our study, we focus ...
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History of mathematics in Dutch teacher training
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationIn most teacher training programs for Dutch mathematics teachers, history of mathematics is a required part of the curriculum. The courses provide historical background knowledge of certain mathematical developments ...
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Adolescent citizenship and educational track
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationStudies show adults’ attitudes towards citizenship to be related to their educational level. It has been claimed that higher educated people more often possess ‘good’ citizenship values. However, ...
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Identifying context factors as a source for teacher professional development
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationTraditionally, teacher professional learning is often seen as something that mainly takes place in organized, formalized settings. This article takes a broader starting point: the idea that it can be understood as ...
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Towards a professional development tool for teachers of English in bilingual streams
18 December 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThis study highlights tensions and challenges experienced by language teachers in CLIL contexts. Using an example from the Netherlands, it explores the pedagogical and collaborative practices of Teachers of English ...
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Content and Language Integrated Learning in Dutch bilingual education
1 December 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThis small-scale observational study explores how Dutch bilingual education history teachers (BHTs) focus on the L2 component in their CLIL-lessons. We observed and rated eight BHTs on five language teaching categories.
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Experimenting matters
23 November 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThe research in this dissertation aims to investigate the acquisition of students’ science skills in grades 5 and 6 of primary education in the Netherlands. In most primary science classes, science skills are ...
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The role text structure inference skill plays for eighth graders’ expository text comprehension
1 November 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThe 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 ...
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Impact of in-service Master of Education programmes on teachers and their working environment
10 October 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationIn these uncertain times, politicians and society have been voicing high expectations from teacher education asking for evidence of added value and impact on the student. In this study a longitudinal mixed-methods ...
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Learning student-teachers to orchestrate a classroom discussion for reasoning
9 October 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationConducting a classroom dialogue for reasoning can be very challenging for teachers and, in particular for students-teachers. Research on classroom discussions provides examples of models that can be used to help ...
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Self-evaluation of learning activities by children in a library-makerspace
28 September 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationLearning activities in a makerspace are hands-on and characterized by design and inquiry. Evaluation is needed both for learners and their coaches in order to effectively guide the learning process of the children ...
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The challenge of balancing content and language
1 February 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThe role of subject teachers in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has received little attention, since most research focuses on language learning results of students. This exploratory study aims to gain ...
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Effects of explicit instruction on the acquisition of students' science inquiry skills in grades 5 and 6 of primary education
28 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationIn most primary science classes, students are taught science inquiry skills by way of learning by doing. Research shows that explicit instruction may be more effective. The aim of this study was to investigate the ...
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Educación en ciudadanía en los Países Bajos
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationMany find it important that schools contribute to the citizenship of students. In the Netherlands, schools have a statutory obligation to do so. Yet many schools and teachers find it difficult to develop meaningful ...
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Juggling ideals and constraints
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationIn bilingual streams in the Netherlands, school subjects are taught in an additional language so that pupils learn both subject content and the target language by using language meaningfully. Teachers of English in ...
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Growing into politics?
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThis study focuses on how views on democracy develop during adolescence. A total of 40 Dutch adolescents were interviewed in their second and fourth year of secondary education. The study shows that the interviewed ...
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The relation between financial knowledge, attitudes towards money, financial self-efficacy, and financial behavior among high school students in the Netherlands
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationWe provide evidence on the relationship between four different aspects of Financial Literacy: Financial knowledge, attitudes towards money, self-efficacy, and financial behavior.
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Assessing students' ability in performing scientific inquiry: instruments for measuring science skills in primary education
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationWith the increased attention on the implementation of inquiry activities in primary science classrooms, a growing interest has emerged in assessing students’ science skills. Research has thus far been concerned ...
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Measuring students’ appraisals of the relevance of history
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThis study explores the psychometric qualities of the Relevance of History Measurement Scale (RHMS), a questionnaire designed to measure students’ beliefs about the relevance of history.
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Exploring pedagogical approaches for connecting the past, the present and the future in history teaching
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationUsing the past to orientate on the present and the future can be seen as one of history’s main contributions to educating future citizens of democratic societies. Because teachers often lack useful methods for ...
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Assessing students’ ability in performing scientific inquiry
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationBackground: With the increased attention on implementing inquiry activities in primary science classrooms, a growing interest has emerged in assessing students’ science skills. Research has been concerned with ...
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Do students know what is required of them in their role as university student?
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThe study provides an empirically robust definition of the university student role at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, by identifying the generally tacit demands, the normative behaviors and strategies ...
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Inside school readiness
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationFor the first time in the Netherlands, the Adjustment Scales for Early Transition in Schooling (ASETS) have been applied to kindergarten and first-grade elementary school. A study was conducted to examine the ...