If your company is currently collaborating with competitors in order toadvance sustainability, this tool will help you think about how to take thatcollaboration to the next level and achieve better results. If you’re still atthe planning stages, this tool can help you reflect on where you wouldlike to land in terms of your collaboration, and how to get there. This toolcan also be used by NGOs and industry association managers to helpcompetitors come together and create an effective collaboration.
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Introduction: Writing Readiness Inventory Tool In Context (WRITIC) is an activity-based assessment tool to evaluate which kindergarten children are at risk of developing handwriting difficulties. WRITIC-assessment is valid, reliable, feasible, predictive, and norm-referenced. Broad international interest in translating WRITIC-assessment exists.Objectives: Making WRITIC available to professionals internationally to enable participation in handwriting at school. Methods: Composing translation teams with universities in different countries, back- and forth translation, cross-cultural assessment adaptation, carrying out feasibility and validation studies, starting courses for training the professionals.Results: Translation teams have been started in different countries resulting in an English, Portuguese and Slovenian translation, validation studies in Flanders, UK, Portugal and Slovenia and translation projects in Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A Figshare environment was developed to safely store, exchange the data and to support international research. An international digital platform has been constructed to sell e-manuals, share e-learning and support people worldwide.Conclusion: The translation and cross-cultural adaptation in different languages and the international digital platform made WRITIC-assessment accessible to children’s therapists around the world with the same results: enabling school participation of all children in contributing to inclusive education.
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The HCR-20V3 is a violence risk assessment tool that is widely used in forensic clinical practice for risk management planning. The predictive value of the tool, when used in court for legal decisionmaking, is not yet intensively been studied and questions about legal admissibility may arise. This article aims to provide legal and mental health practitioners with an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the HCR-20V3 when applied in legal settings. The HCR-20V3 is described and discussed with respect to its psychometric properties for different groups and settings. Issues involving legal admissibility and potential biases when conducting violence risk assessments with the HCR-20V3 are outlined. To explore legal admissibility challenges with respect to the HCR-20V3, we searched case law databases since 2013 from Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. In total, we found 546 cases referring to the HCR-20/HCR-20V3. In these cases, the tool was rarely challenged (4.03%), and when challenged, it never resulted in a court decision that the risk assessment was inadmissible. Finally, we provide recommendations for legal practitioners for the cross-examination of risk assessments and recommendations for mental health professionals who conduct risk assessments and report to the court. We conclude with suggestions for future research with the HCR-20V3 to strengthen the evidence base for use of the instrument in legal contexts.
De aanvraag betreft het ontwikkelen en verkennen van de marktmogelijkheden van een IT-tool dat de slaagkans van bedrijfsoverdrachten verbetert. De (emotionele) barrières die ondernemers bij de verkoop hun bedrijf tegenko-men worden inzichtelijk gemaakt. Tevens wordt getoetst of de manier waarop ondernemers nu omgaan met die barrières (coping) effectief is. De doelgroep voor het onderzoek zijn overname-adviseurs, kopende en verkopende ondernemers alsmede investeerders.
The pressure on the European health care system is increasing considerably: more elderly people and patients with chronic diseases in need of (rehabilitation) care, a diminishing work force and health care costs continuing to rise. Several measures to counteract this are proposed, such as reduction of the length of stay in hospitals or rehabilitation centres by improving interprofessional and person-centred collaboration between health and social care professionals. Although there is a lot of attention for interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), the consortium senses a gap between competence levels of future professionals and the levels needed in rehabilitation practice. Therefore, the transfer from tertiary education to practice concerning IPECP in rehabilitation is the central theme of the project. Regional bonds between higher education institutions and rehabilitation centres will be strengthened in order to align IPECP. On the one hand we deliver a set of basic and advanced modules on functioning according to the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and a set of (assessment) tools on interprofessional skills training. Also, applications of this theory in promising approaches, both in education and in rehabilitation practice, are regionally being piloted and adapted for use in other regions. Field visits by professionals from practice to exchange experiences is included in this work package. We aim to deliver a range of learning materials, from modules on theory to guidelines on how to set up and run a student-run interprofessional learning ward in a rehabilitation centre. All tested outputs will be published on the INPRO-website and made available to be implemented in the core curricula in tertiary education and for lifelong learning in health care practice. This will ultimately contribute to improve functioning and health outcomes and quality of life of patients in rehabilitation centres and beyond.
Democratie, burgerschapsvorming, kritisch denken en Bildung worden vaak samen genoemd, maar een heldere kijk op de onderlinge samenhang ontbreekt nog. In dit onderzoeksproject ontwikkelen we een visie op burgerschapsvorming in het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs, waarin kritisch denken en Bildung worden opgenomen.Doel We willen met het project 'Democratisering van kritisch denken' de volgende doelen bereiken: Het formuleren van een heldere kijk op het samenbrengen van kritisch denken, burgerschap, Bildung en de beroepsvoorbereiding in het mbo; Het creëren van een duurzame, professionele leergemeenschap; De ontwikkeling van kennis om kritisch denken toe te passen in de lespraktijk; Het beschikbaar stellen van leerplannen en meetinstrumenten voor mbo-docenten. Resultaten Dit onderzoek loopt. Na afloop vind je hier een samenvatting van de resultaten. Looptijd 17 september 2018 - 31 januari 2023 Aanpak Dit project is onderdeel van de Werkplaats Onderwijsonderzoek van NRO. Deze werkplaatsen zijn gericht op het instellen van duurzame ‘professionele leergemeenschappen’. Ook in dit project komen verschillende expertises samen: die van mbo-docenten (Nederlands, Burgerschap en vakdocenten), onderzoekers van een practoraat, het Expertisecentrum Kritisch Denken (ECKD), het lectoraat Normatieve professionalisering en twee universiteiten. Studenten en externe partners brengen bovendien praktijkkennis in. Samen werken de partners aan een visie op kritisch denken, burgerschap en bildung en de vertaling hiervan in leerlijnen en assessment-tools. Samen met mbo-docenten kijken we bovendien welke professionalisering er nodig is om kritisch denken toe te passen in het beroepsonderwijs. Lees meer over het project Democratisering van kritisch denken.
