This Curious Hands Tool can be used for designing STEAM education. The design guidelines in the tool stimulate ands-on learning, the creative process and situated learning activities. The tool distinguishes between different types of STEAM education: technology-focused STEAM, problem- focused STEAM and research- focused STEAM. Depending on the type of STEAM you want to design, it offers practical design guidelines. This tool is developed and tested in various educational practices; it is part of a PhD research ‘Curious hands for E-labs’ (2019-2025).
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Secondary school physical education (PE) teachers are continuously challenged to find ways to support students learning and motivate them for an active and healthy lifestyle. To address this complexity, continuing teacher professional development (TPD) is key. Technological tools can facilitate the effective delivery of TPD in this context. Successful implementation of this technology, however, is not self-evident. Based on the general aim of effectively integrating technologies in the educational process and focusing on the needs of educators, this study examines how the evidence-based theoretical TARGET framework for creating a motivating PE learning climate might be embedded into a digital professional development tool for PE teachers, useful in everyday practice. It presents a case study in which a multidisciplinary team of researchers, designers, and end-users iteratively went through several phases of need identification, idea generation, designing, development, and testing. By using a participatory approach, we were able to collect contextualized data and gain insights into users’ preferences, requirements, and ideas for designing and engaging with the tool. Based on these insights the TPD TARGET-tool for PE teachers was ultimately developed. The most prominent characteristics of this tool are (1) the combination of an evaluative function with teaching strategy support, (2) the strong emphasis on ease of use due to the complex PE teaching context, (3) the avoidance of social comparison, and suggestions of normative judgment, and (4) the allowance for a high level of customization and teacher autonomy.
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Professionals in de geboortezorg en moeders in de Haagse Schilderswijk ervaren verlegenheid om elkaar vragen te stellen. Dat belemmert hen om onderling vertrouwen op te bouwen, rondom zwangerschap en bevalling. En, het maakt het lastig om de kennis van professionals te verbinden met de kennis en ervaringen van moeders. Samenwerken aan vertrouwen en verbinden zijn belangrijk om passende en integrale geboortezorg te bieden. De Tool Geboortezorg is ontwikkeld om deze samenwerking te ondersteunen. De tool richt zich op moeders die te maken met problemen op meerdere levensgebieden tegelijkertijd voor, tijdens en na de zwangerschap. Die problemen hangen samen met de sociale, economische en culturele kenmerken van deze moeders en de omgeving waarin zij leven. De kenmerken van deze moeders bepalen ook hoe ze denken over zwangerschap, bevalling en babyverzorging. Dat geldt ook voor waar, wanneer en hoe zij daarover vragen stellen. De tool bevat handvatten om onderling vertrouwen op te bouwen en aan te sluiten bij de vragen en behoeften van moeders.
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The Technical Manual for the digital evaluation tool QualiTePE supports users of the QualiTePE tool in creating, conducting and analysing evaluations to record the quality of teaching in physical education. The information on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) instructs users on how to anonymise the data collection of evaluations and which legal bases apply with regard to the collection of personal data. The technical manual for the digital evaluation tool QualiTePE and the information on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Slovenian, Czech and Greek.
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An essential condition to use mathematics to solve problems is the ability to recognize, imagine and represent relations between quantities. In particular, covariational reasoning has been shown to be very challenging for students at all levels. The aim of the project Interactive Virtual Math (IVM) is to develop a visualization tool that supports students’ learning of covariation graphs. In this paper we present the initial development of the tool and we discuss its main features based on the results of one preliminary study and one exploratory study. The results suggest that the tool has potential to help students to engage in covariational reasoning by affording construction and explanation of different representations and comparison, relation and generalization of these ones. The results also point to the importance of developing tools that elicit and build upon students' self-productions
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Er zijn allerlei manieren om organisch afval decentraal te verwerken, zoals wormenhotels, voedselfietsen en composteerinstallaties. Bedrijven en gemeenten zijn echter terughoudend om deze te implementeren of op te schalen. Redenen hiervoor zijn dat regelmatig additionele kosten gemaakt moeten worden en dat de effecten onduidelijk zijn. De tool en simulatiemodellen van Re-Store geven opheldering door de maatschappelijke impact inzichtelijk te maken. De tool maakt door middel van een geavanceerd rekenblad de milieukundige, economische en sociale impact van afvalverwekingmethodes meetbaar. Simulatiemodellen bieden vervolgens richtlijnen om de initiatieven te optimaliseren en op te schalen.
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Objective To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Dutch STarT MSK tool in patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary care physiotherapy. Methods Physiotherapists included patients with musculoskeletal pain, aged 18 years or older. Patients completed a questionnaire at baseline and follow-up at 5 days and 3 months, respectively. Construct validity was assessed by comparing scores of STarT MSK items with reference questionnaires. Pearson’s correlation coefficients were calculated to test predefined hypotheses. Test-retest reliability was evaluated by calculating quadratic-weighted kappa coefficients for overall STarT MSK tool scores (range 0–12) and prognostic subgroups (low, medium and high risk). Predictive validity was assessed by calculating relative risk ratios for moderate risk and high risk, both compared with low risk, in their ability to predict persisting disability at 3 months. Results In total, 142 patients were included in the analysis. At baseline, 74 patients (52.1%) were categorised as low risk, 64 (45.1%) as medium risk and 4 (2.8%) as high risk. For construct validity, nine of the eleven predefined hypotheses were confirmed. For test-retest reliability, kappa coefficients for the overall tool scores and prognostic subgroups were 0.71 and 0.65, respectively. For predictive validity, relative risk ratios for persisting disability were 2.19 (95% CI: 1.10–4.38) for the medium-risk group and 7.30 (95% CI: 4.11–12.98) for the highrisk group. Conclusion The Dutch STarT MSK tool showed a sufficient to good validity and reliability in patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary care physiotherapy. The sample size for high-risk patients was small (n = 4), which may limit the generalisability of findings for this group. An external validation study with a larger sample of high-risk patients (�50) is recommended.
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Evaluating an (implemented) Business Rules Management Solution (BRMS) is not a frequently conducted process within organizations. A tool is needed, which supports this process and supports future BRMS implementations. A literature study is conducted on the relevant building blocks of a BRMS. The results are validated through qualitative expert interviews. This resulted in the BRMS analysis tool that can be utilized to structure the analysis for one or multiple BRMS implementations. Next, the BRMS analysis tool is applied at 13 organizations that implemented a BRMS. The BRMS analysis tool provides the BRMS implementation stakeholders with a tool that structures, in a systematic and controlled way, that is capable to analyze a BRMS implementation for one or multiple organizations. This research contributes to structured and managed information which is important for better business and IT alignment. Furthermore, structured and managed information contributes towards the easier creation of a business case.
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Er zijn allerlei manieren om organisch afval decentraal te verwerken, zoals wormenhotels, voedselfietsen en composteerinstallaties. Bedrijven en gemeenten zijn echter terughoudend om deze te implementeren of op te schalen. Redenen hiervoor zijn dat regelmatig additionele kosten gemaakt moeten worden en dat de effecten onduidelijk zijn. De tool en simulatiemodellen van Re-Store geven opheldering door de maatschappelijke impact inzichtelijk te maken. De tool maakt door middel van een geavanceerd rekenblad de milieukundige, economische en sociale impact van afvalverwekingmethodes meetbaar. Simulatiemodellen bieden vervolgens richtlijnen om de initiatieven te optimaliseren en op te schalen.
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Er zijn allerlei manieren om organisch afval decentraal te verwerken, zoals wormenhotels, voedselfietsen en composteerinstallaties. Bedrijven en gemeenten zijn echter terughoudend om deze te implementeren of op te schalen. Redenen hiervoor zijn dat regelmatig additionele kosten gemaakt moeten worden en dat de effecten onduidelijk zijn. De tool en simulatiemodellen van Re-Store geven opheldering door de maatschappelijke impact inzichtelijk te maken. De tool maakt door middel van een geavanceerd rekenblad de milieukundige, economische en sociale impact van afvalverwekingmethodes meetbaar. Simulatiemodellen bieden vervolgens richtlijnen om de initiatieven te optimaliseren en op te schalen.
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