How can we help children and adults to acquire better reading comprehension? Paul van den Broek and his colleagues at the Brain and Education Lab are searching for an answer to this question by investigating reading and the related brain activity.

In this study an attempt has been made to describe the degree in which the new objectives of the school subjects Greek and Latin, as formulated at the theoretical level by institutes as curriculum planning committees, are are incorporated by the teachers in their actual teaching practice.

Teaching reading comprehension in secondary education

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This study tests whether behavioural problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.

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What is the effect of practicing with electronic books on reading skills for grade 1 students?

A list of the activities of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media:

The two main goals of the research that is conducted in the Brain and Education Lab are to understand the cognitive and neural systems that support the development of reading comprehension and other scholarly tasks in children, adolescents and adults, and to draw implications for intervention and other…

Cognitive processes of learning with a focus on reading comprehension and the development of mathematical skills.

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States.

The more opportunities a child has to learn and develop, the stronger his or her future position in society. Leiden University investigates how the brain picks up information, and how learning processes can be influenced positively.

The better teaching is for pupils and students, the more solid the basis will be that we give them for their future careers. This type of teaching requires strong instructors and insight into the best ways in which pupils can be supported, and research at Leiden University is making a contribution in…

Read about the current reseach projects of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media.

This computational approach to the complexity of text comprehension is useful for describing the cognitive processes involved.

Meet the people of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media

Read about the impact of past research

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A major goal of ABS research is to overcome one of the major bottle-necks in metabolomic research: the lack of a high-throughput infrastructure in which thousands of samples can be processed in a standardized and cost-effective way (max. a few tens of Euro’s per sample for a full metabolome profile).…

his fall we welcome our new PhD-candidate Amy de Bruïne. Amy received both her bachelors degree and her research master degree ’Developmental Psychopathology in Education and Child Studies’ at Leiden University.

In context of Anne Helder’s defense of her doctoral thesis, we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Kate Cain for a symposium last week.

Can we tailor catalysts at the atomic scale by means of high-school chemistry and geometry rules?

Below are resources which provide a short primer on the subject of active learning.