Het doel van dit is boek is om de lezer te wijzen op de gevarieerde en innovatieve methodes om de 'lessen' informatievaardigheden, die reeds geïntegreerd zijn in het curriculum, te beoordelen en na die beoordeling (eventueel) te verbeteren.
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In today’s foreign language (FL) education, teachers universally recognise the importance of fostering students’ ability to communicate in the target language. However, the current assessments often do not (sufficiently) evaluate this. In her dissertation, Charline Rouffet aims to gather insight into the potential of assessments to steer FL teaching practices. Communicative learning objectives FL teachers fully support the communicative learning objectives formulated at national level and embrace the principles of communicative language teaching. Yet, assessments instead primarily focus on formal language knowledge in isolation (e.g., grammar rules), disconnected from real-world communicative contexts. This misalignment between assessment practices and communicative objectives hampers effective FL teaching. CBA toolbox The aim of this design-based PhD research project is to gather insight into the potential of assessments to steer FL teaching practices. To this end, tools for developing communicative classroom-based assessment (CBA) programmes were designed and implemented in practice, in close collaboration with FL teachers. Rouffet's dissertation consists of multiple studies, in which the current challenges of FL education are addressed and the usage of the CBA toolbox is investigated. Findings reveal that assessing FL competencies in a more communicative way can transform teaching practices, placing communicative abilities at the heart of FL education.
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Background to the problem Dutch society demonstrates a development which is apparent in many societies in the 21st century; it is becoming ethnically heterogeneous. This means that children who are secondlanguage speakers of Dutch are learning English, a core curriculum subject, through the medium of the Dutch language. Research questions What are the consequences of this for the individual learner and the class situation?Is a bi-lingual background a help or a hindrance when acquiring further language competences. Does the home situation facilitate or impede the learner? Additionally, how should the TEFL professional respond to this situation in terms of methodology, use of the Dutch language, subject matter and assessment? Method of approach A group of ethnic minority students at Fontys University of Professional Education was interviewed. The interviews were subjected to qualitative analysis. To ensure triangulation lecturers involved in teaching English at F.U.P.E. were asked to fill in a questionnaire on their teaching approach to Dutch second language English learners. Thier response was quantitatively and qualitatively analysed. Findings and conclusions The students encountered surprisingly few problems. Their bi-lingualism and home situation were not a constraint in their English language development. TEFL professionals should bear the heterogeneous classroom in mind when developing courses and lesson material. The introduction to English at primary school level and the assessment of DL2 learners require further research.
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CRYPTOPOLIS is a project supported by EU which focuses on the financial management knowledge of teachers and the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency has shown to be a vital and rapidly growing component in today’s digital economy therefore there is a need to include not just financial but also crypto literacy into the schools. Beside multiple investors and traders the market is attracting an increasing number of young individuals, viewing it as an easy way to make money. A large pool of teenagers and young adults want to hop on this train, but a lack of cryptocurrency literacy, as well as financial literacy in general amongst youth, together with their inexperience with investing makes them even more vulnerable to an already high-risk investment.Therefore, we aim to increase the capacity and readiness of secondary schools and higher educational institutions to manage an effective shift towards digital education in the field of crypto and financial literacy. The project will develop the purposeful use of digital technologies in financial and crypto education for teaching, learning, assessment and engagement.
Toetsen is een essentieel onderdeel van het onderwijs. Helaas leidt het huidige gebruik van toetsen vooral tot kortetermijn-effecten op leren: leerlingen werken van toets naar toets en het leren stopt bij het ontvangen van het cijfer. Deze constatering heeft veel VO-scholen gestimuleerd andere aanpakken te verkennen. Formatief evalueren is een bewezen aanpak die de ontwikkeling, betrokkenheid en het langetermijnleren van leerlingen versterkt. Momenteel stellen veel scholen de formatieve functie van toetsen centraal: zo reduceren scholen bijvoorbeeld het aantal momenten waarop cijfers worden gegeven en investeren zij in de kwaliteit van feedback. Zij zoeken naar manieren om zonder ‘formele toetsen’ inzicht te krijgen in de ontwikkeling van leerlingen. Docenten die binnen hun eigen lespraktijk aan de slag zijn met formatieve evaluatie, geven zelf aan dat dit op kleine schaal tot mooie resultaten leidt: docenten ervaren een toenemende motivatie en eigenaarschap bij leerlingen, en geven aan zelf meer plezier te hebben in het lesgeven. Toch ervaren zij ook de nodige knelpunten. Het blijkt dat docenten weliswaar in staat zijn om losstaande formatieve leeractiviteiten toe te passen, maar handelingsverlegenheid ervaren bij het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van een programma van formatieve leeractiviteiten: een combinatie van bewust gekozen en in samenhang ingezette formatieve leeractiviteiten die de juiste informatie oplevert om beslissingen te kunnen nemen over hoe het onderwijs verder vorm te geven ten dienste van het verdere leren van hun leerlingen. Doel van dit project is wetenschappelijk onderbouwde én praktische handvatten te ontwikkelen die docenten ondersteunen bij het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van een dergelijke combinatie van formatieve leeractiviteiten. De kernopbrengsten van dit project zijn ontwerpprincipes die docenten helpen bij het maken van een programma van formatieve leeractiviteiten dat docenten aantoonbaar ondersteunt bij het nemen van beslissingen over leerlingen en een praktische handreiking om deze combinatie van activiteiten in te zetten in de dagelijkse onderwijspraktijk.
mechanism for fostering innovation competenceThis dissertation focuses on fostering students’ innovation competence in higher education. The research is aimed at developing instructional strategies based on theoretical design principles to aid teachers in higher education foster innovation competence in their classrooms and assess students’ innovation competence. The research was implemented within the existing curriculum of three Netherlands universities of applied sciences in which developing students’ innovation competence was the target learning goal. To aid innovation competence learning, an innovation competence teaching mechanism was developed following education design research steps. The research includes four independents sub-studies which used different research methods. This thesis shows that students’ innovation competence can be positively influenced by instruction. The findings of this study suggested that development of students’ innovation competence takes place through explicitly coordinated teaching and learning activities, design, assessment, and reflection. It was found that this innovation-supportive learning environment influenced the actual innovation competence of students and that the way of teaching (especially a better structured, balanced and more student-centred constructivist approach to teaching) had a positive influence on students’ development of innovation competence. This dissertation has shown that every student has the potential to be innovative, and that teachers can fulfil their role in recognizing the innovation potential of students by creating a teaching and learning environment that promotes and encourages innovation competence.
