Het onderhavige onderzoek naar de doorstroom van mbo naar hbo in de technische sector houdt zich bezig met een belangrijk thema van de school als loopbaancentrum. Kunnen we het beroepsonderwijs zo programmeren en organiseren dat niet langer institutionele afscheidingen en grenzen bepalend zijn, maar een geëngageerde bemiddeling ten faveure van de loopbaan van de student? Het overheidsbeleid heeft de uitdaging geformuleerd om een groei in de doorstroom van mbo naar hbo waar te maken, nl. door voorop te stellen dat binnen afzienbare tijd de helft van de Nederlandse schoolverlaters hoger onderwijs achter de rug dient te hebben. Hierboven op geldt ook nog dat in het bijzonder de deelname aan het bèta/technisch onderwijs dient toe te nemen. Uit het onderzoek wordt duidelijk dat De Haagse Hogeschool al jarenlang in samenwerking met ROC's, in het bijzonder in de techniek, doorstoomactiviteiten uitvoert. Hoewel bij de theoretische uitwerking en ook bij de empirische aanpak kanttekeningen te plaatsen zijn, meen ik dat het onderzoek voldoende reflectiekracht heeft om behulpzaam te kunnen zijn bij verbetering van de doorstroom tussen mbo en hbo. De onderzoekers werken dit in het laatste hoofdstuk van hun rapportage nader uit.
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Background: Intellectual disability (ID) is a developmental disorder that causes considerably below-average intellectual performance and adaptive behaviour. In the context of the present study, families raising a child with ID are reported to experience multiple challenges that appear not to be well documented in Pakistan. Methods and procedures: Pakistan, which was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan, followed participatory action research, in which the researcher and participants examined their existing experiences of informal social support and then created, implemented, and evaluated actions to strengthen this informal social support. A total of five families (n = 25) participated in the study. These participating families comprise parents, siblings, and significant others, i.e., aunts, uncles, and grandparents, living with the child with ID. Families with children with ID were selected through a school for children with ID who are under 12 years old. This qualitative action research was conducted in two distinct parts, i.e., a) exploratory part and b) action part. This paper presents the findings of the first exploratory part of the study. Aim: The exploratory phase aimed to explore and examine the experiences and challenges families may experience with informal social support while caring for a child with an intellectual disability in Karachi, Pakistan. Findings: Parents often sacrifice their personal needs and aspirations for their children, leading to decreased tolerance and anxiety. Lack of communication, support, and assistance from family members is another significant issue. Stigmatisation and discrimination from school, relatives, and friends can cause depression and distress. The study emphasises the need for a unified and coordinated approach to support and care. Religious beliefs, siblings, and close friends provide comfort and well-being. When parents manage to connect with similar families, they have the opportunity to express a collective commitment to caregiving. Conclusion: To strengthen the situation, families propose enhancing intimacy and competency within homes and taking action at the governmental level. Governments must provide appropriate services, such as nurses supporting families, support groups, and religious traditions, to promote acceptance and holistic development for intellectually disabled children.
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The ageing of people with intellectual disabilities, with associated morbidity like dementia, calls for new types of care. Person-centered methods may support care staff in providing this, an example being Dementia Care Mapping (DCM). DCM has been shown to be feasible in ID-care. We examined the experiences of ID-professionals in using DCM. We performed a mixed-methods study, using quantitative data from care staff (N = 136) and qualitative data (focus-groups, individual interviews) from care staff, group home managers and DCM-in-intellectual disabilities mappers (N = 53). ageing, dementia, Dementia Care Mapping, intellectual disability, mixed-methods, personcentred care
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The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students’ participation in a preacademic program and the development of their academic capital. In a mixed method study, we showed that first-year students who participated in a preacademic program perceived peer mentors and teachers to be relevant sources of information, learned how to overcome educational barriers, and became more acquainted with explicit and implicit college requirements.
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Het bezoek aan Phoenix en de uitwisseling van ervaringen met de leden van het National College of Honours Council maken duidelijk dat we over en weer veel van elkaar kunnen leren over honoursonderwijs.
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This article describes the relation between mental health and academic performance during the start of college and how AI-enhanced chatbot interventions could prevent both study problems and mental health problems.
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Teacher shortages are a significant concern in many countries. Hiring pre-service teachers could help to alleviate this problem while providing students an opportunity to develop skills in a realwork context. However, being employed alongside full-time studying might compete with attendance or self-study and, thereby, hinder study progress. This study analyzed the effect of student employment on the study progress of 132 pre-service teachers, using 25 repeated measures over 4 years (n = 3,245). Employment hours, remuneration, domain-relevance, and timing (year of college) were taken into account. Multilevel growth analyses showed that students who spent more time on a paid teaching job in year 3 or 4 obtained significantly more study credits compared to those who were not paid or got paid for a job outside of education. Overall, student employment did not relate to less study progress and depending on domain-relevance, timing and remuneration, the effect can even be positive.
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The Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) sector is responsible for a large part of the total worldwide energy consumption, a significant part of which is caused by incorrect operation of controls and maintenance. HVAC systems are becoming increasingly complex, especially due to multi-commodity energy sources, and as a result, the chance of failures in systems and controls will increase. Therefore, systems that diagnose energy performance are of paramount importance. However, despite much research on Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) methods for HVAC systems, they are rarely applied. One major reason is that proposed methods are different from the approaches taken by HVAC designers who employ process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). This led to the following main research question: Which FDD architecture is suitable for HVAC systems in general to support the set up and implementation of FDD methods, including energy performance diagnosis? First, an energy performance FDD architecture based on information embedded in P&IDs was elaborated. The new FDD method, called the 4S3F method, combines systems theory with data analysis. In the 4S3F method, the detection and diagnosis phases are separated. The symptoms and faults are classified into 4 types of symptoms (deviations from balance equations, operating states (OS) and energy performance (EP), and additional information) and 3 types of faults (component, control and model faults). Second, the 4S3F method has been tested in four case studies. In the first case study, the symptom detection part was tested using historical Building Management System (BMS) data for a whole year: the combined heat and power plant of the THUAS (The Hague University of Applied Sciences) building in Delft, including an aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system, a heat pump, a gas boiler and hot and cold water hydronic systems. This case study showed that balance, EP and OS symptoms can be extracted from the P&ID and the presence of symptoms detected. In the second case study, a proof of principle of the fault diagnosis part of the 4S3F method was successfully performed on the same HVAC system extracting possible component and control faults from the P&ID. A Bayesian Network diagnostic, which mimics the way of diagnosis by HVAC engineers, was applied to identify the probability of all possible faults by interpreting the symptoms. The diagnostic Bayesian network (DBN) was set up in accordance with the P&ID, i.e., with the same structure. Energy savings from fault corrections were estimated to be up to 25% of the primary energy consumption, while the HVAC system was initially considered to have an excellent performance. In the third case study, a demand-driven ventilation system (DCV) was analysed. The analysis showed that the 4S3F method works also to identify faults on an air ventilation system.
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Zorg, Service & Welzijn van Friesland College opereert in een complexe wereld. De bevolking vergrijst, de zorgvraag neemt toe en de beroepsbevolking krimpt. De technologische ontwikkelingen in de zorg gaan razendsnel. Mensen blijven langer thuis wonen, houden meer zelf de regie over wat ze nodig hebben en er ontstaan nieuwe vormen van welzijn en zorg, bijvoorbeeld kleinschalig wonen voor ouderen. In de maatschappij als geheel spelen ook grote vraagstukken waar (aankomende) professionals bij de uitoefening van hun beroep mee te maken krijgen. Dit vraagt om wendbare professionals ofwel professionals met de capaciteit om verbetergericht te leren en werken. Dit thema: professionals die zich blijvend ontwikkelen, heeft ook de aandacht van het Practoraat Leven Lang Ontwikkelen van Friesland College. Het beroepsonderwijs, waar deze professionals worden opgeleid, staat daarmee midden in de samenleving.
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