Blog post where the author speaks about his recently published article "Adherence to an injury prevention program in male amateur football players is affected by players’ age, experience and perceptions"
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In the Netherlands there is discussion about the best way to teach mathematics, especially in the case of primary school students. Being able to identify and understand pupils’ multiple problem solving strategies is one of the pillars of pedagogy. However, it is very demanding for teachers, since it requires to notice and analyze pupils’ mathematical thinking and to understanding their actions. The skill to notice and analyze a student’s mathematical thinking is usually not emphasized in Dutch primary school teacher training. It is important to find ways to help teacher-students to analyze student mathematical reasoning, and to learn to recognize the importance of such analysis. Sherin and van Es used the concept of video clubs to help teachers in US schools to notice and analyze their students’ mathematical thinking. In such video clubs, students jointly discuss their filmed lessons. This leads to the following research question:How can video clubs be used to teach students who are learning to become primary school teachers to analyze their pupils’ mathematical thinking and to learn to recognize the importance of such analysis?This paper describes a study that monitors a video club with four participants.
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In the current market, the focus is more and more on building long-term relationships with clients in which value is created, communicated and delivered. This also means developing a new customer relationship focus that goes beyond the consumer orientation that has thus far dominated the practice of marketing. In a user-driven approach, the basis is no longer the product range, the world of the manufacturer or supplier, but rather the experience of the user. This has implications not only for manufacturers and service providers, but also for marketeers and market researchers. We feel that the most commonly used methods and techniques do not answer to the new demands of the market. We have therefore adapted emerging generative user research methods from the field of design as a basis for a truly user-driven market approach. As part of the Fitness in Motion project -a programme aimed at helping the health club industry develop a stronger customer orientation- we applied Contextmapping, a generative technique that has already proved its worth in the world of industrial product development and interaction design.
