Existing observation instruments to measure differentiated instruction often lack insight into the degree to which teachers’ decisions match the actual needs of their students, and neglect the importance of preparation and evaluation. This article describes the psychometric evaluation of a comprehensive instrument (Assessing Differentiation in All Phases of Teaching; ADAPT) that does not suffer from these shortcomings. To assess its quality, 41 raters used it to score videos of lessons and interviews of 86 primary school teachers. A 5-dimensional item-response model showed good fit and high internal consistency, and a decision study was conducted to determine the reliability and agreement coefficients for different numbers of raters. For the intended low-stakes use, a single rater would be enough to provide a reliable estimate of a teacher’s overall score. Finally, rater experiences showed that ADAPT has high practical value due to the comprehensive manual and detailed score descriptions and examples. The instrument can therefore not only be used for research purposes, but can also serve as a valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators in practice.
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The future will be warmer with more tropical days, heat stress and related impacts for the healthy and liveable city. This is clear from many scientific studies and papers. Yet many local governments in the Netherlands claim to have insufficient understanding of the importance of these impacts in order to make the necessary step to climate adaptation and to take practical actions to manage the risks associated with rising heat levels. They struggle with defining the urgency of heat stress and finding good arguments for the need to adapt urban environments to rising temperatures. In order to provide urban professionals with reasons to adapt their urban environments to heat, we analyzed the potential impacts of urban heat from international policy reports and scientific literature. We summarized the impacts in a mind map. This map visualizes the large number and variety of heat-related risks. They can be subdivided into risks for health, open space, liveability, water and infrastructure networks. We believe that this mind map provides useful insight into the reasons to take heat adaptation actions. It can also be a helpful visual for urban professionals in outlining the reasons to take action for heat adaptation.
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BACKGROUND: Advanced interventions to enhance the mental health literacy (MHL) of educational professionals are now available, though their effectiveness varies, likely due to contextual differences. To adapt these interventions for use in other countries, a systematic and tailored approach is required to maintain the logical framework. This study describes the systematic process of selecting and adapting an intervention to improve MHL of Dutch secondary school educational professionals, using Intervention Mapping (IM) Adapt.METHODS: IM Adapt regards six steps: (1) assess needs and organizational capacity; (2) find evidence-based interventions; (3) plan adaptations; (4) make adaptations; (5) plan for implementation; and (6) plan for evaluation.RESULTS: The outcomes of a needs assessment were used to develop a logic model of the problem and of change, leading to the intervention goal of increasing mental health awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy among end-users. A logic model of the problem and of change visually outlines the relationship between a specific issue, its root causes, and the intended intervention to drive change. The existing evidence-based digital intervention, named LEARN, was identified as the most suitable for addressing these needs. This was done through reviewing the literature and existing intervention databases. Four main content adaptations were made to align with the distinct needs of the Dutch context and the evolving trends within the field of mental health, resulting in LEARN-NL, a digital mental health literacy intervention for Dutch educational professionals. Finally, implementers were identified, and a mixed methods feasibility study was set up.CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that some content adaptations to LEARN were needed to address the needs and (learning) preferences of educational professionals in the Dutch education context, but that the majority of the existing intervention could be upheld. Existing evidence-based MHL interventions for educational professionals are useful as a basis for the adaptation and transfer to other countries. IM Adapt is a valuable framework for the systematic planning of adaptations to a new context while retaining its essential elements.
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Jaarlijks onderzoekscongres van onderzoekgroep waaronder het promotieonderzoek van Lonneke Frie bij de Radboud Universiteit.
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Businesses today are facing ever greater competition. Products and services need to be delivered faster, more efficiently and at lower price. Companies are forced to supply customised products: demand-oriented production. In order to meet this changing demand, companies have to subcontract and collaborate. An efficient web service system that defines tasks and roles is indispensable for achieving this. The spiders in the web are people. People have a number of tools to hand that enable them to design or adapt the process-oriented organisation. In this regard, people have access to an ever increasing number of standardised process objects (web services) that are available via the Internet.
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This is a summary of Sara Adriano's thesis and internship. This anthropological research focuses on the culinary adaptation and cultural foodways of twenty Latin American and Caribbean women living in Almere. The research question is: “How do these women adapt their food sourcing practices to the Almere foodscape and how do they simultaneously change and influence that foodscape?” The aim of the research was to detect which products and services the citizens need to boost their cultural food integration and to what extent they adapt(ed) to the Dutch foodways.
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A case study and method development research of online simulation gaming to enhance youth care knowlegde exchange. Youth care professionals affirm that the application used has enough relevance as an additional tool for knowledge construction about complex cases. They state that the usability of the application is suitable, however some remarks are given to adapt the virtual environment to the special needs of youth care knowledge exchange. The method of online simulation gaming appears to be useful to improve network competences and to explore the hidden professional capacities of the participant as to the construction of situational cognition, discourse participation and the accountability of intervention choices.
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Large structural changes are occurring in our society at this very moment. This has some large consequences for project development. According to Rudy Stroink, project development is on the brink of a system. The new style developer has to adapt to a new earning model. The golden ages are over. Private and collective commissioning are the beginning of a period in which the user will want to direct its own environment. The developer has to adapt if he wants to survive. Durability, long term profit, flexible office concepts and private and collective commissioning for houses will have to help the real-estate sector. This article will show the developments that caused this situation.
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Objective: Self-management is a core theme within chronic care and several evidence-based interventions (EBIs) exist to promote self-management ability. However, these interventions cannot be adapted in a mere copy-paste manner. The current study describes and demonstrates a planned approach in adapting EBI’s in order to promote self-management in community-dwelling people with chronic conditions. Methods: We used Intervention Mapping (IM) to increase the intervention’s fit with a new context. IM helps researchers to take decisions about whether and what to adapt, while maintaining the working ingredients of existing EBI’s. Results: We present a case study in which we used IM to adapt EBI’s to the Flemish primary care context to promote self-management in people with one or more chronic disease. We present the reader with a contextual analysis, intervention aims, and content, sequence and scope of the resulting intervention. Conclusion: IM provides an excellent framework in providing detailed guidance on intervention adaption to a new context, while preserving the essential working ingredients of EBI’s. Practice Implications: The case study is exemplary for public health researchers and practitioners as a planned approach to seek and find EBI’s, and to make adaptations.
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