634 search results for “reading skills” in the Public website
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Promoting reading skills through electronic books for grade 1 students
What is the effect of practicing with electronic books on reading skills for grade 1 students?
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Computer interventions for young children at risk to prevent reading impairments
This study’s main aim is to test whether children’s learning behaviour explains why they do not benefit from a literate environment.
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influence of an improved school library and individual feedback on reading motivation
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Academic Skills
The Academic Language Centre offers numerous courses in Academic Skills.
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Skills
It is generally accepted that a university education is about more than knowledge transfer alone. Alongside knowledge and understanding, students should develop the skills required to apply this knowledge and understanding.
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Paul van den Broek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marit Guda
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Christine Espin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Elise Swart
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Suzanne Mol
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dutch Academic Skills
Het Academisch Talencentrum biedt verschillende mogelijkheden aan om Academische vaardigheden te leren.
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Teachers' use of progress data in planning and evaluating instruction for students with learning disabilities
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Development of visual span in Hebrew and Dutch-speaking prereaders
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Siuman Chung
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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An archaeology of skill
Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe
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Mirjam de Bruijne
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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English Academic Skills
The English section at the Academic Language Centre offers numerous courses in Academic Skills. These courses are intended to train participants in the use of English writing and presenting skills in an academic context. The courses are aimed at BA students and MA students. In addition, we also offer…
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Early educational interventions with computer programmes: the influence of genetic and neurobiological factors
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Expert Center Academic Skills
Het Expertisecentrum Academische Vaardigheden (EAV) verzorgt onderwijs in academische vaardigheden binnen diverse BA-programma's. Daarnaast organiseert het EAV een facultair Scriptieseminar voor BA-studenten. Ook wordt met een Schrijfcentrum gratis advies geboden aan studenten die bezig zijn met een…
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Challenges of New Media for the Development of Early Literacy Skills in Children at Risk
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Video clips English Reading and Writing
We've developed video clips on English Reading and Writing. The overall goal is to enable departments and programmes to incorporate academic reading and writing skills into their curricula, using tried and tested materials developed by specialists.
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Basic Qualification in English Language Skills
University lecturers who are in the process of obtaining the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) and who teach programmes in English will also need the Basic Qualification in English Language Skills certificate, which guarantees a basic standard of English.
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Executive deficits in relation to early reading and math development
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Teach the Teachers Workshop in Digital Skills
Teach the Teachers Workshop on: Digital Skills and Thinking for the Humanities (closed)
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Moving Bodies: Diversity, Skill and Embodiment
How are social structures of gender, religion and race/ethnicity learned and embodied in practices of movement?
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Reading Rubbish
Using object assemblages to reconstruct activities, modes of deposition and abandonment at the Late Bronze Age dunnu of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.
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Executive deficits, behavioural problems and early reading development
This study tests whether behavioural problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.
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Better reading comprehension
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.
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Resources & Readings
Below are resources which provide a short primer on the subject of active learning.
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Adaptive feedback and differentiated support to improve speaking skills in foreign languages
Research has shown that the impact of feedback can be very powerful on second language acquisition. However, how to provide adaptive feedback on speaking skills in foreign languages and how to provide differentiated support in secondary schools in regular secondary schools classes of often 25-30 students?…
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Platform for Postcolonial Readings
The Platform for Postcolonial Readings brings together researchers, especially junior researchers, in Belgium and the Netherlands interested in issues of globalization, inter/transculturality, diversity and inclusivity, intersectionality, and postcoloniality. We are an open group (do join us!) and meet…
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Read about science & research
Scientific research is the main focus of our program. We expect new students to understand what it is and how it works.
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Reading the Dental record
A dental anthropological approach to foodways, health and disease, and crafting in the pre-Columbian Caribbean.
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HJD Diplomacy Reading Lists
Since 2006, HJD has made an important contribution to shaping diplomatic studies as an international academic field. Our new HJD Diplomacy Reading List presents a diverse collection of analyses categorized into forty-one topics published in HJD over the years. We hope these lists prove a valuable resource…
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Further Reading Materials
Please find below links to articles / events that might be of interest.
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Promoting Legal Certainty and Increasing Judicial Skills in Selected Areas
How can the legal and socio-legal research skills of Indonesian jurists be increased in order to promote legal certainty and to strengthen the capacity of the judicial training in the country?
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Does feedback targeting text comprehension trigger the use of reading strategies or changes in readers' attitudes? A meta-analysis
Our previous meta-analysis (Swart et al., 2019) had shown that feedback targeting text comprehension given when students perform a reading task positively influences learning from text. So far, differences in the effects of feedback were explained by design features, such as the timing and richness…
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Reading Cicero's Final Years
This volume contributes to the scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero and focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life: the period from Caesar's death (March 44 BCE) up to Cicero’s own death (December 43 BCE).
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Dietsje Jolles
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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An Update and Expansion of a Meta-Analysis on Shared Book Reading
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Critical Readings on Global Slavery (4 vols.)
These four volumes offer students and researchers a rich collection of published works on the history of slavery works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field.
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The added value of multimedia to repeated story book reading in preschool age
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A cross-linguistic investigation of the onset effect in reading aloud: No need to mope about the MOPE
The global population speaks approximately 7,000 different languages and approximately half of the world’s population is bilingual. The unique orthographic characteristics of different languages can help us to gain insight into the seemingly simple process of transforming written to spoken words (i.e.,…
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industry and higher education collaboration in enhancing engineers’ soft skills for better employability
The discussion on employability of higher education graduates has been around for several years, with more emphasis in the 21st century. Yet, universities are still challenged in the pursuit of providing work-ready graduates who can meet industry expectations.
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Reading Arabic: legibility studies for the Arabic script
What is the cost of visual complexity? This dissertation sets out to determine the effect of the complexity of word formation on the legibility of Arabic and the role that vocalization plays in reading.
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Reading emotional faces in deaf and hard-of-hearing and typically hearing children
Reading emotions from others’ faces strengthens social relationships. But how is that for children with hearing loss? Can they learn to read faces just as easily as hearing children? The study by Yung-Ting Tsou and colleagues shows that daily
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all gin and tonics by the pool”: the settlement process of highly skilled immigrants in The Hague and Jakarta, 1945-2015
Why are highly skilled migrants not perceived as migrants in scholarly, policy, and public debates, and to what extent is their settlement process different?
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
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In Search of the Truth: A Sufi Reading of Modern Palestinian Literature, 1950-2010
This research aims to address the connection between Sufism and modern Arabic Literature (specifically, Palestinian literature).
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Robust Estimation using Aggregated Data for Urban policy making (READ-URBAN)
Read-Urban was a first project to investigate whether policy recommendations can be made with the aid of linked data collections and data science and to gain experience with the success factors for such a process.