The main result of this effectiveness study is that a reading program with a focus on students’ poetry reading processes, based on observational learning via eye movement modeling examples, can improve students’ reading comprehension for different text types. In a pretest-posttest design with an experimental group (ten classes) and a control group (five classes), students’ self-efficacy regarding their own reading process and their reading comprehension were measured. Over a six-week period, teachers of Dutch and their students worked with the six experimental lessons, instead of the regular reading program: students observed and evaluated contrasting peer reading processes, reflected on differences with their own reading process, and then they practiced aspects of a deep reading process. The program resulted in significant progress in the reading comprehension of “expository texts” (ES = .66), “short stories” (ES = .66), and especially “poetry” (ES = .81). Furthermore, the self-efficacy test results show that students in the experimental condition experienced significantly more learning effect after the intervention period than those in the control group. Moreover, based on the learning reports, evaluation tasks and interviews, it appears that the participants in the innovative program have become aware of their reading and how they improved their performance.
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Insider ethnographic analysis is used to analyze change processes in an engineering department. Distributed leadership theory is used as conceptual framework.
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In bepaalde single-core configuraties met één processor, b.v. embedded control systems zoals robotic applications die uit vele korte processen bestaan, kunnen de context switches van een proces een aanzienlijke hoeveelheid van de beschikbare processing power verbruiken. Het verminderen van het aantal context switches vermindert de executietijd en verhoogt daardoor de prestaties van de toepassing. Bovendien is de end-to-end executietijd van de processen langer dan strict noodzakelijk, b.v. omdat de processen moeten wachten op controllers die een taak uitvoeren. Door de regels voor synchrone communicatie via kanalen in de procesalgebraïsche specificatietaal Communicating Sequential Processes te versoepelen, kunnen we de end-to-end executietijd verkorten. In ons onderzoek definiëren we verschillende graafproducten, bewijzen we dat deze producten een prestatiewinst opleveren (onder bepaalde voorwaarden) en we werken de numerieke en combinatorische aspecten van deze graafproducten uit.
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