Most aesthetic sports where judges subjectively rate performances can suffer from issues like systematic errors due to biases. Equestrian dressage is defined through the intricate interaction between horse and rider. Assessing these interactions can be particularly complex, often exceeding human processing capabilities. The study focuses on whether the current dressage system predisposes international judges to using biases, and inadvertently favours certain horse-rider combinations. The study examined 510 judging scores, gathered from seven elite-level dressage competitions held between May 2022 and April 2023. The effect of different factors, such as whether riders competed in their home country, if they had the same nationality as the judges, their starting order during the competition, and how they were ranked according to previous performances were analysed. Results showed that all these factors influence the final dressage results. In order to assist judges in providing objective, transparent scores, a clear evidence-based set of judging guidelines should be developed, which would prevent judges from having to resort to cognitive short cuts. That way, the complexity of judging is reduced, making scores more objective, transparent and fair.
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This chapter addresses two central questions concerning judges and gender: what is the situation of women judges in the Netherlands, and do women judge differently from men?
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OBJECTIVE: The Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) tool was designed to classify randomized clinical trials (RCT) as being more pragmatic or explanatory. We modified the PRECIS tool (called PRECIS-Review tool [PR-tool]) to grade individual trials and systematic reviews of trials. This should help policy makers, clinicians, researchers, and guideline developers to judge the applicability of individual trials and systematic reviews. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: To illustrate the usefulness and applicability of the PR-tool, we applied it to two systematic reviews. Each included RCT was scored on the 10 PRECIS domains on a scale of 1-5. After this scoring, a 10-domain average for each individual trial and for the systematic review a single domain average and an overall average was calculated. RESULTS: One review was more pragmatic with an average score of 3.7 (range, 2.9-4.6) on our PR-tool, whereas the other review was more explanatory with an average score of 1.9 (range, 1.1-3.3). The results also suggest that the included studies within each systematic review were rather uniform in their approach, although some domains seemed more prone to heterogeneity. CONCLUSION: The PR-tool provides a useful estimate that gives insight by estimating quantitatively how pragmatic each RCT in the review is, which methodological domains are pragmatic or explanatory, and how pragmatic the review is.
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Studenten in het beroepsonderwijs leren op de werkplek om een goede beroepsuitoefenaar te worden. Beoordeling van het werkplekleren gebeurt vaak op de werkplek en door de werkplek. Dit promotieonderzoek wil in kaart brengen hoe werkplekopleiders de student beoordelen.
Society continues to place an exaggerated emphasis on women's skins, judging the value of lives lived within, by the colour and condition of these surfaces. This artistic research will explore how the skin of a painting might unpack this site of judgement, highlight its objectification, and offer women alternative visualizations of their own sense of embodiment. This speculative renovation of traditional concepts of portrayal will explore how painting, as an aesthetic body whose material skin is both its surface and its inner content (its representations) can help us imagine our portrayal in a different way, focusing, not on what we look like to others, but on how we sense, touch, and experience. How might we visualise skin from its ghostly inner side? This feminist enquiry will unfold alongside archival research on The Ten Largest (1906-07), a painting series by Swedish Modernist Hilma af Klint. Initial findings suggest the artist was mapping traditional clothing designs into a spectral, painterly idea of a body in time. Fundamental methods research, and access to newly available Af Klint archives, will expand upon these roots in maps and women’s craft practices and explore them as political acts, linked to Swedish Life Reform, and knowingly sidestepping a non-inclusive art history. Blending archival study with a contemporary practice informed by eco-feminism is an approach to artistic research that re-vivifies an historical paradigm that seems remote today, but which may offer a new understanding of the past that allows us to also re-think our present. This mutuality, and Af Klint’s rhizomatic approach to image-making, will therefore also inform the pedagogical development of a Methods Research programme, as part of this post-doc. This will extend across MA and PhD study, and be further enriched by pedagogy research at Cal-Arts, Los Angeles, and Konstfack, Stockholm.
Werknemers en werkgevers in de Groen Grond Infra (GGI) sector krijgen een steeds grotere rol in de natuurinclusieve transitie binnen de agrarische sector en GGI. Deze groene transitie vereist verschillende soorten kennis, investeringen en inzet van loonwerkers. De betrokken loonwerkers moeten nu niet alleen taken uitvoeren maar ook meedenken over hoe die taken uit te voeren om bij te dragen aan de groene transitie. Een belangrijk onderdeel van deze verandering is dat werknemers als "change agents" gaan optreden. Dit betekent dat ze, dankzij hun kennis en houding, helpen om de groene transitie te realiseren. De GGI-sector omvat veel verschillende werkterreinen, zoals cultuurtechniek, agrarisch loonwerk en beheer van groene ruimtes. Om studenten op te leiden voor de arbeidsmarkt in deze diverse sector, is een nieuwe aanpak nodig. Deze aanpak moet de diversiteit van de sector bedienen en studenten stimuleren om een ondernemende en duurzame rol aan te nemen. Bedrijven, studenten, docenten, onderzoekers en andere betrokkenen gaan in een praktijkonderzoek een leeromgeving creëren die opleidt voor deze "change agents". In dit pilot-onderzoek werken studenten, bedrijven, een docent-onderzoeker, een practor en lector samen met vraaggestuurd onderwijs. Dit betekent dat de leerbehoeften van de studenten centraal staan, binnen kaders van duurzaamheid en natuurinclusiviteit. Het bedrijfsleven en het onderwijs faciliteren het leerproces, bewaken de kaders en reflecteren met de studenten op hun toekomstige rol als "change agents" in de GGI-sector. Het doel van dit pilot-onderzoek is dat studenten GGI(loonwerk) vaardigheden en tools ontwikkelen om mee te denken binnen de groene transitie. Door middel van interviews, Situational Judgement Tests en rubrics wordt inzicht verkregen in dit proces. De onderzoeksvraag is: Hoe kan vraaggestuurd onderwijs, vormgegeven door studenten, bedrijfsleven en Terra MBO, bijdragen aan een ondernemende houding bij GGI-studenten, zodat zij beter kunnen functioneren als "change agents" in toekomstbestendig loonwerk?
