We investigated to what extent correctional officers were able to apply skills from their self-defence training in reality-based scenarios. Performance of nine self-defence skills were tested in different scenarios at three moments: before starting the self-defence training programme (Pre-test), halfway through (Post-test 1), and after (Post-test 2). Repeated measures analyses showed that performance on skills improved after the self-defence training. For each skill, however, there was a considerable number of correctional officers (range 4–73%) that showed insufficient performance on Post-test 2, indicating that after training they were not able to properly apply their skills in reality-based scenarios. Reality-based scenarios may be used to achieve fidelity in assessment of self-defence skills of correctional officers.Practitioner summary: Self-defence training for correctional officers must be representative for the work field. By including reality-based scenarios in assessment, this study determined that correctional officers were not able to properly apply their learned skills in realistic contexts. Reality-based scenarios seem fit to detect discrepancies between training and the work field. Abbreviations: DJI: Dutch National Agency for Correctional Insitutes; ICC: Intraclass Correlation Coefficient.
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.
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.
Students in Higher Music Education (HME) are not facilitated to develop both their artistic and academic musical competences. Conservatoires (professional education, or ‘HBO’) traditionally foster the development of musical craftsmanship, while university musicology departments (academic education, or ‘WO’) promote broader perspectives on music’s place in society. All the while, music professionals are increasingly required to combine musical and scholarly knowledge. Indeed, musicianship is more than performance, and musicology more than reflection—a robust musical practice requires people who are versed in both domains. It’s time our education mirrors this blended profession. This proposal entails collaborative projects between a conservatory and a university in two cities where musical performance and musicology equally thrive: Amsterdam (Conservatory and University of Amsterdam) and Utrecht (HKU Utrechts Conservatorium and Utrecht University). Each project will pilot a joint program of study, combining existing modules with newly developed ones. The feasibility of joint degrees will be explored: a combined bachelor’s degree in Amsterdam; and a combined master’s degree in Utrecht. The full innovation process will be translated to a transferable infrastructural model. For 125 students it will fuse praxis-based musical knowledge and skills, practice-led research and academic training. Beyond this, the partners will also use the Comenius funds as a springboard for collaboration between the two cities to enrich their respective BA and MA programs. In the end, the programme will diversify the educational possibilities for students of music in the Netherlands, and thereby increase their professional opportunities in today’s job market.
Doel van dit project is het vergaren van kennis over de eigenschappen en kenmerken van de ‘afvalstroom’ van materiaal die ontstaat tijdens de verwerking van Nylon 12 met de 3D-printtechnologie Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) en de mogelijkheden om dit materiaal voor andere toepassingen te gebruiken. Onder ‘afval’ verstaan we het restmateriaal dat niet meer ingezet kan worden in het proces. SLS is de meest volwassen 3D-printtechnologie die een hoge nauwkeurigheid biedt en geschikt is voor kleinserie producties. De producten hebben goede mechanische en thermische eigenschappen. Een SLS machine print met high performance thermoplastics, hoofdzakelijk Nylon 12 (PA12), een veelgebruikte kunststof binnen de high-tech maakindustrie. Het Nylon 12 materiaal wordt in poedervorm gebruikt, zowel als basismateriaal voor de print als voor ondersteunings- of supportmateriaal. De afvalstroom ontstaat uit poeder dat is gebruikt als support materiaal, maar waarvan de eigenschappen door blootstelling aan warmte dusdanig veranderd zijn dat het niet langer geschikt is voor vervaardiging via SLS. Door vermenging van nieuw en gebruikt poeder is het mogelijk een gedeelte van het materiaal opnieuw in te zetten. Desondanks ontstaat er per printjob meer gebruikt poeder dan er vermengd kan worden. Tot op heden zijn er geen toepassingen bekend waarin dit afvalpoeder hoogwaardig ingezet kan worden, en het materiaal belandt bij een afvalverwerking. Aanleiding voor dit onderzoeksproject is de kennisvraag van zowel kennisinstellingen als bedrijven naar toepassingen voor deze afvalstroom Nylon 12. In dit project zal het consortium zich onder leiding van het lectoraat Kunststoftechnologie van Windesheim richten op de volgende praktijkvraag: ‘In welke verwerkingsprocessen en/of producten kan het Nylon 12 poeder hoogwaardig worden ingezet’. Het consortium bestaat uit deskundigen in het vakgebied, die kennis en ervaring hebben met SLS printen, het materiaal en kunststofontwerp- en verwerkingstechnieken. Er zijn een tweetal MKB-bedrijven bij het project betrokken. De beoogde projectresultaten zijn: - Nieuwe kennis over de eigenschappen van de afvalstroom ‘Nylon 12’ die ontstaat als resultaat van verwerking met Selective Laser Sintering. - Nieuwe kennis over de toepassingsmogelijkheden van deze afvalstroom en de grondstofbesparingen die mogelijk gerealiseerd kunnen worden. - Onderzoeksrapport.
On a societal scale, the ‘problem with work’ is that everyone is exhausted, job security has been replaced by ‘flex work’ and much important work had been invisibilised. While billions of people are displaced and illegalized from work, others have physical/ mental conditions caused by work. The problem with work merits scrutiny not only from medical, corporate or legal perspectives. It needs tackling without an agenda of productivity, with an open regard and embodied, intuitive research. Artistic research has this scope. It taps into knowledges that are underused/repressed, by involving the body, harnessing intuition, experience and situatedness, and activating a plurality of voices. The aim of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of what is (not) work, who we are when we perform work, and when we don’t or are not able to work. Why are certain activities or roles called work and what happens when the term is applied to activities that are not normally deemed work, but which include comparable elements? Three research questions are addressed: 1. What can be learned about work by regarding every job, or all the work, as a performance? 2. What can be learned about performance (art) by looking at it through the lens of work? 3. What are ethical practices in collaborative and participative work processes? The research is carried out through an artistic approach that contains a particular way of making, teaching and researching which is collaborative, performative and transdisciplinary. It proposes the body as a thinking apparatus, experience as a way of gathering information and doing, writing, exchanging and performing as both method and dissemination. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of what work is in our lives. The research has social, artistic and educational targets and target groups, which are also intertwined.
