29 Result(s)

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Longitudinal Transition Between Regular and Special Education in Autistic Children: Predictors and Policy Effects

Inclusive education policies stimulate children with special educational needs, including autism, to attend regular education. We aimed to explore change over time in school placement and transitions of autist...

Chantal van den Helder, Rachel Plak… in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disord… (2024)

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The Value of Pretend Play for Social Competence in Early Childhood: A Meta-analysis

According to Vygotsky’s cultural-historical activity theory, pretend play can be an important context for the development of children’s social competence. The aim of this meta-analysis was to synthesize the cu...

Mireille Smits-van der Nat, Femke van der Wilt… in Educational Psychology Review (2024)

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Study progression and degree completion of autistic students in higher education: a longitudinal study

Individuals with autism increasingly enroll in universities, but researchers know little about how their study progresses over time towards degree completion. This exploratory population study uses structural ...

Theo Bakker, Lydia Krabbendam, Sandjai Bhulai, Martijn Meeter… in Higher Education (2023)

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Relative letter-position coding revisited

The notion that the brain achieves visual word recognition by encoding the relative positions of letters with open-bigram representations (e.g., ‘h-e’, ‘h-r’ and ‘e-r’ driving recognition of ‘her’) has been succe...

Joshua Snell, Jonathan Grainger, Martijn Meeter in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2022)

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Motivation-Achievement Cycles in Learning: a Literature Review and Research Agenda

The question of how learners’ motivation influences their academic achievement and vice versa has been the subject of intensive research due to its theoretical relevance and important implications for the fiel...

TuongVan Vu, Lucía Magis-Weinberg, Brenda R. J. Jansen… in Educational Psychology Review (2022)

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Learning about stress from building, drilling and flying: a sco** review on team performance and stress in non-medical fields

Teamwork is essential in healthcare, but team performance tends to deteriorate in stressful situations. Further development of training and education for healthcare teams requires a more complete understanding...

Femke S. Dijkstra, Peter G. Renden… in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitat… (2021)

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Content expectations and dropout in Dutch vocational education

Unrealistic expectations with regard to one’s study program has been linked to negative consequences for future academic success. Previous studies that have shown this are often retrospective, however, and foc...

Irene Eegdeman, Chris van Klaveren… in Empirical Research in Vocational Education… (2020)

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Scientific Perspectivism in Secondary-School Chemistry Education

The importance of learning chemical ways of thinking is widely recognized. Various frameworks have been developed to address the essence of chemistry and chemical thinking. However, very few studies have focused ...

Ilse Landa, Hanna Westbroek, Fred Janssen, Jacqueline van Muijlwijk… in Science & Education (2020)

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How to optimize knowledge construction in the brain

Well-structured knowledge allows us to quickly understand the world around us and make informed decisions to adequately control behavior. Knowledge structures, or schemas, are presumed to aid memory encoding a...

Marlieke Tina Renée van Kesteren, Martijn Meeter in npj Science of Learning (2020)

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Congruency and reactivation aid memory integration through reinstatement of prior knowledge

Building knowledge schemas that organize information and guide future learning is of great importance in everyday life. Such knowledge building is suggested to occur through reinstatement of prior knowledge du...

Marlieke T. R. van Kesteren, Paul Rignanese, Pierre G. Gianferrara… in Scientific Reports (2020)

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EEG dynamics reveal a dissociation between storage and selective attention within working memory

Selective attention plays a prominent role in prioritizing information in working memory (WM), improving performance for attended representations. However, it remains unclear whether unattended WM representati...

Eren Günseli, Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Dirk van Moorselaar… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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Cognitive skills, personality traits and dropout in Dutch vocational education

Designing effective educational programs to reduce dropout in higher and vocational education requires thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms of study success. This study examines if first-year dr...

Irene Eegdeman, Martijn Meeter… in Empirical Research in Vocational Education… (2018)

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Integrating educational knowledge: reactivation of prior knowledge during educational learning enhances memory integration

In everyday life and in education, we continuously build and structure our knowledge. Successful knowledge construction is suggested to happen through reactivation of previously learned information during new ...

Marlieke Tina Renée van Kesteren, Lydia Krabbendam… in npj Science of Learning (2018)

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Timing a week later: The role of long-term memory in temporal preparation

Temporal preparation has been investigated extensively by manipulating the foreperiod, the interval between a warning stimulus and target stimulus requiring a speeded response. Although such research has revea...

Rozemarijn M. Mattiesing, Wouter Kruijne, Martijn Meeter… in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2017)

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The influence of a scene preview on eye movement behavior in natural scenes

Rich contextual and semantic information can be extracted from only a brief presentation of a natural scene. This is presumed to be activated quickly enough to guide initial eye movements into a scene. However...

Nicola C. Anderson, Mieke Donk, Martijn Meeter in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2016)

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Implicit short- and long-term memory direct our gaze in visual search

Visual attention is strongly affected by the past: both by recent experience and by long-term regularities in the environment that are encoded in and retrieved from memory. In visual search, intertrial repetit...

Wouter Kruijne, Martijn Meeter in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2016)

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Erratum to: The reliability of retro-cues determines the fate of noncued visual working memory representations

Eren Gunseli, Dirk van Moorselaar, Martijn Meeter… in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2015)

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The reliability of retro-cues determines the fate of noncued visual working memory representations

Retrospectively cueing an item retained in visual working memory during maintenance is known to improve its retention. However, studies have provided conflicting results regarding the costs of such retro-cues ...

Eren Gunseli, Dirk van Moorselaar, Martijn Meeter… in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2015)