Decisions are used by organizations to manage and execute their coordinated, value-adding decision-making and are thereby among an organization’s most important assets. To be able to manage deci-sions and underlying business rules, Decision Management (DM) and Business Rules Management (BRM) are increasingly being applied at organisations. One of the latest developments related to the domain of DM and BRM is the introduction of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) in September 2015 by the Object Management Group (OMG). The goal of this technical paper is to provide students with a case to practice the specification, verification, validation, deployment, execution, monitoring and governance of business rules in practice.
The purpose of this article was to describe a child-friendly modified constraint-induced movement therapy protocol that is combined with goal-directed task-specific bimanual training (mCIMT-BiT). This detailed description elucidates the approach and supports various research reports. This protocol is used in a Pirate play group setting and aims to extend bimanual skills in play and self-care activities for children with cerebral palsy and unilateral spastic paresis of the upper limb. To illustrate the content and course of treatment and its effect, a case report of a two-year-old boy is presented. After the eight-week mCIMT-BiT intervention, the child improved the capacity of his affected arm and hand in both quantitative and qualitative terms and his bimanual performance in daily life as assessed by the Assisting Hand Assessment, ABILHAND-Kids, Video Observations Aarts and Aarts Module Determine Developmental Disregard, Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and Goal Attainment Scaling. It is argued that improvement of affected upper-limb capacity in a test situation may be achieved and retained relatively easily, but it may take a lot more training to stabilize the results and automate motor control of the upper limb. Future studies with groups of children should elaborate on these intensity and generalization issues.
Objectives: There is virtually no literature on how to assess competencies of applied sport psychologists. We assessed casework of applied sport psychology students and compared written case report assessment (WCRA) with structured case presentation assessment (SCPA) on reliability and acceptability (e.g., validity, transparency, feedback function and preference of methods, as perceived by students and assessors). Design: A quantitative, comparative study of two assessment methods. Method: Participants were 11 students, nine supervisors and three exam committee members. A number of 18 cases were evaluated with both WCRA by the supervisor and SCPA by two exam committee members. Ten of these cases were also evaluated with WCRA by exam committee members. Interrater reliability measures were calculated and compared for the different assessment methods. Participants' perception of the validity, transparency, and feedback function of the methods, and the preferences for assessment methods were surveyed with a brief questionnaire. Results: SCPA by the exam committee resulted in higher interrater reliability than WCRA by supervisor and exam committee. The feedback function of SCPA seemed superior to WCRA by either supervisor or exam committee. For assessment by the exam committee, the perceived validity and transparency of SCPA seemed higher than of WCRA. Students and exam committee had the highest preference for SCPA by supervisor and exam committee. Conclusions: Overall it can be concluded that, for assessment by the exam committee, structured case presentations provided a more reliable and acceptable method of assessment than written case reports only.
Voor de kwaliteit van het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs is het belangrijk dat docenten zich continu blijven ontwikkelen. Welke activiteiten ondernemen mbo-docenten om zich te professionaliseren en wat is de doorwerking daarvan op hun denken en/of doen? In dit promotieonderzoek verzamelen we inzichten hierover.Doel We willen inzicht krijgen in de professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten, de activiteiten die zij ondernemen om te professionaliseren en de samenhang tussen deze activiteiten en hun professionele ontwikkeling. Onder professionele ontwikkeling verstaan we het proces van activiteiten dat leidt tot verandering in denken en/of doen. We richten ons op: Formele en informele professionaliseringsactiviteiten en hun kenmerken; De doorwerking van deze professionaliseringsactiviteiten op denken en/of doen; Inzicht in beroepskennis van mbo-docenten en de ontwikkeling daarvan; Onderzoek naar de samenhang tussen professionele ontwikkeling en professionaliseringsactiviteiten. Resultaten Dit onderzoek loopt. Na afloop vind je hier een samenvatting van de resultaten. De verwachte opbrengsten resulteren in: Wetenschappelijke opbrengsten: vier artikelen, presentaties op conferenties en proefschrift. Praktijkgerichte opbrengsten: publicaties, workshops, en presentaties voor betrokkenen uit het mbo-onderwijs. Behaalde resultaten Onderzoeksplan 'Professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten', 2017. Presentatie ‘Professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten: Tijdens koffiepraat of een formele cursus?’ tijdens de mbo-onderzoeksdag in Rotterdam, november 2017 Posterpresentatie ‘Professionele ontwikkeling van ervaren mbo-docenten: Tijdens koffiepraat of een formele cursus?’ tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen in Nijmegen, juni 2018. Presentatie ‘Onderzoek naar kennisontwikkeling m.b.v. Concept maps’ tijdens de mbo-onderzoeksdag in Hengelo, november 2019. Discussietafel ‘Longitudinaal onderzoek naar professionalisering van mbo-docenten; ontwikkelen van de analyse-aanpak van data uit verschillende bronnen. Tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen in Hasselt, Belgie, juni 2022. Posterpresentatie ‘VET teachers’ professional development; a study on the impact of formal and informal activities' tijdens de EarliSIG11 conferentie in Oldenburg, Duitsland, juni 2022. Verwachte resultaten kunnen helpen bij het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van professionaliseringsbeleid en -activiteiten in het mbo. Looptijd 01 september 2017 - 01 september 2024 Aanpak Dit promotieonderzoek betreft een samenwerking tussen de OU en het lectoraat Beroepsonderwijs. De promotor vanuit de OU is prof. dr. Elly de Bruijn (ook lector Beroepsonderwijs), en de co-promotor vanuit het lectoraat Beroepsonderwijs is dr. Maaike Koopman. Om zicht te krijgen op formele- en informele professionaliserings-activiteiten en professionele ontwikkeling van mbo-docenten, voeren we een longitudinaal onderzoek (2,5 jaar) uit, waarbij docenten aan de hand van Learner Reports en interviews bevraagd worden over hun ondernomen professionaliseringsactiviteiten en de doorwerking daarvan op hun denken en/of doen. Om de ontwikkeling van beroepskennis van docenten in kaart te brengen analyseren we de door hen gemaakte concept maps en interviewen we hen hierover. Om zicht te krijgen op de samenhang tussen professionele ontwikkeling en professionaliseringsactiviteiten wordt een case studie uitgevoerd.
Client: European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, Transport and Tourism.This study addresses the complex phenomenon of overtourism in the EU. By focusing on a set of case studies, the study reports on overtourism indicators, discusses management approaches implemented within different destinations and assesses policy responses. It concludes that a common set of indicators cannot be defined because of the complex causes and effects of overtourism. Avoiding overtourism requires custom-made policies in cooperation between destinations' stakeholders and policymakers. Please find the full study below (download) or read the extensive blog by the European Parliament's Research4Committees. The author team for this study consisted of researchers from Breda University of Applied Sciences' Centre for Sustainability, Tourism and Transport (lead), Stenden University of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, the Ostelea School of Tourism & Hospitality, and Lund University.
The objective of CW4N is to identify opportunities for wood reuse through the use of advanced digital production technologies1, and develop related implementation strategies for public organisations, in particular housing corporations and municipalities. Strategies include concrete proposals on how to: a) collect and process wood waste from residential buildings; b) add value to reclaimed wood by means of digital production; c) increase tenant involvement and acceptance for waste wood collection and circular reuse; d) create impactful applications for a circular economy. The research is carried out in four work packages. The first identifies the nature of residential wood waste (volume, type, application) from past case projects of housing corporations Ymere and Rochdale. Their upcoming renovation plans are evaluated, to identify resources and hotspots for future implementations. The second workpackage explores what applications can be conceived, given the available wood and digital production tools at the AUAS Robot Lab. In the third workpackage case studies are carried out for actual projects of the housing corporations. Physical prototypes are used as conversation pieces to involve tenants and increase their acceptance for circular applications. In the fourth workpackage all findings are combined in a set of implementation strategies. High-quality data-collection is crucial for the project, since it will determine the nature of the materials for designing and manufacturing applications. In this proposal, additional resources are added to the project to take care of data-collection. Due to covid-19, project managers at Ymere and Rochdale must focus on day-to-day work to get ongoing and planned building projects done, reducing their time for data collection from previous projects. In addition, because of teleworking, non-digital data such as drawings and reports are not easily accessible. To enhance data-collection, student-assistants will be added to the project to survey ongoing renovation projects in the field.
