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Verkennende studie naar oudercontact binnen de kinderopvang omtrent gezond voedings- en beweeggedrag

Q-sort. Een rangordening

De Q-sort is een manier om objecten (bv. stimuli, uitspraken, attitudes, woorden, foto's, opstelkenmerken, persoonlijkheidstrekken, etc. etc.) door één of meer personen te laten rangordenen. De resultaten van één of meer Q-sorteringen kunnen objectief geanalyseerd worden. Een onderzoeker vraagt zich bijvoorbeeld af: a) op welke opstelkenmerken letten docenten vooral wanneer zij opstellen nakijken? b) welke typen opstelbeoordelaars kan men onderscheiden? Teneinde deze vragen te beantwoorden, verzamelt de onderzoeker (bv. via literatuurstudie, via interviews, etc.) een groot aantal opstelkenmerken. Een aantal voorbeelden van opstelkenmerken zijn: 1) Ik let op "grammaticale fouten" 2) Ik let op "foutieve samentrekkingen" 3) Ik let er op "of zinnen voor tweeërlei uitleg vatbaar zijn 4) Ik let op "de originaliteit van het opstel" 5) Ik let op de "leesbaarheid van het opstel" 6) Ik let op de "overredingskracht van het opstel"

Determining aspects of text difficulty for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) Functional Assessment instrument

In this paper we describe our work in progress on the development of a set of criteria to predict text difficulty in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). These texts are used in a four year bachelor program, which is being brought in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001). Production and interaction proficiency are assessed through the NGT Functional Assessment instrument, adapted from the Sign Language Proficiency Interview (Caccamise & Samar, 2009). With this test we were able to determine that after one year of NGT-study students produce NGT at CEFR-level A2, after two years they sign at level B1, and after four years they are proficient in NGT on CEFR-level B2. As a result of that we were able to identify NGT texts that were matched to the level of students at certain stages in their studies with a CEFR-level. These texts were then analysed for sign familiarity, morpheme-sign rate, use of space and use of non-manual signals. All of these elements appear to be relevant for the determination of a good alignment between the difficulty of NGT signed texts and the targeted CEFR level, although only the morpheme-sign rate appears to be a decisive indicator

Syntactic predictors for text quality in Dutch upper‐secondary school students’ L1 argumentative writing

Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on relating measures of syntactic complexity to text quality. Apart from the fact that the existing research on this topic appears inconclusive, most of it has been conducted in English L1 contexts. This is potentially problematic, since relevant syntactic indices may not be the same across languages. The current study is the first to explore which syntactic features predict text quality in Dutch secondary school students’ argumentative writing. In order to do so, the quality of 125 argumentative essays written by students was rated and the syntactic features of the texts were analyzed. A multilevel regression analysis was then used to investigate which features contribute to text quality. The resulting model (explaining 14.5% of the variance in text quality) shows that the relative number of finite clauses and the ratio between the number of relative clauses and the number of finite clauses positively predict text quality. Discrepancies between our findings and those of previous studies indicate that the relations between syntactic features and text quality may vary based on factors such as language and genre. Additional (cross-linguistic) research is needed to gain a more complete understanding of the relationships between syntactic constructions and text quality and the potential moderating role of language and genre.

The Atmosphere in Open Public Spaces

Introduction:A space’s atmosphere is an important factor in how that space is experienced. In fact, festival visitors consider the atmosphere as the most important factor in how they experience a festival (Van Vliet 2012). Atmosphere is also what distinguishes physical shops from online web shops (Van Vliet, Moes & Schrandt 2015). Much research underlines the influence of atmosphere on cognitive and emotional processes. As early as 1956, research showed that an assessment of facial expressions in photographs depended on the atmosphere of the space in which the photos were viewed (Maslow & Mintz 1956). The importance of atmosphere inspired the search for ways to influence visitors and allowing them to react to, and even (co-)design, a space’s atmosphere – from museum spaces (Noordegraaf 2012) to urban spaces, from consciously-manipulated spaces to the now inevitable layer of digital information that has entered the public sphere (Mitchell 2005). Researchers have been studying the influence of atmosphere for decades, particularly through the lens of environmental psychology, which focuses on the interplay between humans and their environment (Mehrabian & Russell 1974; Steg, Van den Berg & De Groot 2012). A milestone in atmosphere research was the introduction of the concept of ‘atmospherics’ by Kotler (1973). From here, research into atmosphere mainly took place in the context of marketing research into consumer behaviour in shops and service environments such as restaurants, hotels, museums and festivals (Van Vliet 2014). The question here is whether these gathered insights contribute to understanding how atmosphere works in open public spaces.

Omgevingslab Fryslan Bouwsteen Fries Platteland

-De opbrengst van het Omgevingslab Fries Platteland bestaat uit drie delen: 1. De “SYNTHESE” van omgevingslabs. De Synthese is een beknopt overzicht van de resultaten en een overzicht van de meest opvallende punten die uit de Omgevingslabs Fries Platteland naar voren komen. 2. Het “PROCESVERSLAG” van de opbrengsten van het Omgevingslab Fries Platteland. Dit verslag is bedoeld als terugkoppeling naar de deelnemers aan de omgevingslabs. Voor de leesbaarheid is deze opgenomen in bijlage 1. 3. Het “MENGPANEEL FRIES PLATTELAND” met bijbehorende gebruiksaanwijzing. Dit hoofdstuk kent als doelgroep/lezerspubliek de opstellers van omgevingsvisies die in samenspraak met hun bestuurders tot een passend invulling van de omgevingsvisie moeten. Het Mengpaneel Fries Platteland is het instrument dat de overheidspartijen in Fryslân kunnen (gaan) gebruiken om hun omgevingsvisies te maken. Het mengpaneel geeft relevante informatie en kan aangevuld worden met andere informatiebronnen zoals om in het onderdeel ‘gebruiksaanwijzing wordt uitgelegd.