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Assessing competence in sport psychology

Competent practice in sport psychology is of utmost importance for the professional status of the field, and hence proper assessment of competence for sport psychology practice is needed. We describe three cycles of action research to improve the assessment of competence in a sport psychology education program. The cycles were directed at (a) empowering supervisors in their assessing role, (b) improving the assessment checklist, and (c) investigating an alternative assessment method. Although challenges remain (e.g., improve the still low interrater reliability), the action research has contributed to an improved quality and higher acceptability of the assessment in the education program.

Designing for learning: studying learning environments in higher professional education from a design perspective

Designing authentic, project-based learning environments in higher professional education is far from clear-cut yet and can be a difficult task for teachers. The research question driving our research was: How can we design and improve project-based, ICT-supported learning environments in higher professional education? It was our aim to find valuable pieces of the design-puzzle in current literature and integrate these pieces. We intended to complement current insights with inventive insights from an explicit design perspective by carrying out empirical studies.

The perception of teachers on usability and accessibility of programming materials for children with visual impairments

Training for the job: evaluation of a self-defence training programme for correctional officers

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.

Verbindend perspectief op opleiden naar vakmanschap.

Onderscheidend voor het beroepsonderwijs is dat het leerproces van studenten in het perspectief staat van kwalificeren tot startend beroepsbeoefenaren en dat het leren en begeleiden van dat leren plaatsvindt op school én op de werkplek. In het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (mbo) is het aandeel leren op de werkplek aanzienlijk. Het gaat om 80% in de beroepsbegeleidende leerwegen (bbl) met 30,6 % van de studentenpopulatie en om minimaal 20% tot maximaal 60% in de beroepsopleidende leerwegen (bol) met 69,4% procent van de studentenpopulatie.1 Zowel de docenten in onderwijsinstellingen als praktijkopleiders/werkbegeleiders2 in leerbedrijven spelen een belangrijke rol in het opleidingsproces van mbo-studenten.

The contribution of assessment experiences to student teachers’ self-efficacy in competence-based education

Earlier research argues that educational programmes based on social cognitive theory are successful in improving students’ self-efficacy. Focusing on some formative assessment characteristics, this qualitative research intends to study in-depth how student teachers’ assessment experiences contribute to their self-efficacy. We interviewed 15 second year student teachers enrolled in a competence based teacher educational programme. Thematic content analysis results reveal that the assessment characteristics ‘authenticity’ and ‘feedback’ exert a positive influence on student teachers self-efficacy during all phases of the portfolio competence assessment. The results provide a fine-grained view of several types of self-efficacy information connected with these assessment phases.