Juliette Walma van der Molen

• PhD
• Managing Director at University of Twente

Engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI) is seen as an important citizenship goal of SSI-based science education. In this experimental study, Dutch students (age 8 to 13) participated in lesson series in which they learned about and discussed SSI, such as issues related to the textile industry and wastewater. Attitudes toward SSI indicating eng...

This study concerns the development and validation of a questionnaire to measure primary school Teachers’ Attitudes towards New Technology use in teaching (TANT). Many researchers, policy makers and educators have emphasized the importance of using new technology in teaching. However, no instrument is available to measure teachers’ attitudes toward...

Critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving and other so-called higher-order thinking skills are regarded as crucial for students to develop. Research shows that technology can be used as a tool to stimulate students’ higher-order thinking skills. However, most teachers rarely use new technology to stimulate students to engage in higher-o...

The current study is about students' engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI). We explored the use of sources of knowledge about SSI and attitudes toward SSI among a sample of 1676 Dutch 8- to 16-year-old students. First, we developed a questionnaire that measured students' use of four sources of knowledge about SSI: Social Resources (online me...

In this position paper, we introduce the concept of socioscientific capital (SSC) to denote students' resources that unequivocally play a part when students learn about and make decisions regarding socioscientific issues (SSIs). Students use a variety of resources when they engage with SSI. Our conceptualization of SSC expands on current conceptual...

In het TechYourfuture project ‘Samen werken aan Bèta Burgerschap’, dat plaats vond in de periode maart 2015 - maart 2020, gaven de onderzoekers samen met scholen en bedrijven concreet invulling aan burgerschapsonderwijs. De maatschappij en maatschappelijke vraagstukken worden steeds complexer. Politieke, technologische, economische, sociaal-culture...

This paper presents the results of a large-scale study to validate a questionnaire that measures pupils’ attitudes towards socioscientific issues (the PASSI questionnaire). We define socioscientific issues (SSI) as those topics that are about complex societal and technological developments that may induce ethical dilemmas. In this study, the term a...

The present study describes the effects of a 2-year inquiry-focused school improvement intervention on pupils’ attitudes towards epistemic curiosity, their implicit beliefs about the malleability of their ability, their effort beliefs, and their goal orientation motivations were investigated. Six Dutch primary school teams participated in the study...

Background/Context International education policy documents increasingly promote the implementation of inquiry-based pedagogy in primary education. However, helping whole primary school teams to acquire the competencies that meet these new education standards is complex and requires extensive teacher professionalization programs. Unfortunately, suc...

This paper presents a validation study of a questionnaire to measure primary children’s images of and attitudes towards curiosity (the CIAC questionnaire). Policy documents and scientific studies on twenty-first century learning increasingly promote the value of stimulating children’s curiosity in primary school. However, no well-established measur...

Despite the widely accepted view that low self‐efficacy beliefs negatively influence students' intention to opt for a STEM field oriented study or career path, it remains unclear how to effectively stimulate these beliefs in students who do seem to have the ability and motivation to opt for a STEM career. A suggestion from previous literature is th...

Despite the large body of research on students’ educational and career choices in the field of technology, design, and science, we still lack a clear understanding of how to stimulate more students to opt for a study path or career within the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). In this article, we outline a new theoretical...

This study used an experimental, pretest-posttest control group design to investigate whether participation in a large-scale inquiry project would improve primary teachers’ attitudes towards teaching science and towards conducting inquiry. The inquiry project positively affected several elements of teachers’ attitudes. Teachers felt less anxious ab...

This article provides a description of a novel, attitude-focused, professional development intervention, and presents the results of an experimental pretest-posttest control group study investigating the effects of this intervention on primary teachers' personal attitudes toward science, attitudes toward teaching science, and their science teaching...

Although science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) study paths and STEM work fields may be relatively difficult and therefore not appropriate for everyone, too many children prematurely exclude STEM-related study and work options, based on negative images of the field or negative ability beliefs. In the present article, we provide an...

Vanaf een jaar of negen beginnen kinderen een ruimte af te bakenen waarbinnen zich een – in hun ogen– geschikt beroep bevindt (Gottfredson,1996). Daarbij wijzen ze beroepen af die eigenlijk prima bij hen passen. Vooral op technisch gebied. Wat kun je als leerkracht doen om kinderen bewust te maken van hun mogelijkheden?

Technology-oriented company visits could potentially provide children with a stimulating ‘real-world’ setting to develop more broad and positive images of and attitudes toward technology and technical professions. The present study was the first to explore whether children’s images of and attitudes toward technology, technical competencies and tech...

Attention to the attitudes of primary teachers towards science is of fundamental importance to research on primary science education. The current article describes a large-scale research project that aims to overcome three main shortcomings in attitude research, i.e. lack of a strong theoretical concept of attitude, methodological flaws in attitude...

Kinderen zitten vol met vragen. Waarom regent het? Waarom moet een vliegtuig heel hard rijden voordat hij de lucht in gaat en een helikopter niet? Smelt een sneeuwpop minder als je hem een jas aantrekt? Allerhande vragen die je iedere dag gesteld kunnen worden. Hoe reageer je hier als leerkracht op? Ga je in op zulke vragen? Of merk je dat je door...

In this article, we present a valid and reliable instrument which measures the attitude of in-service and pre-service primary teachers toward teaching science, called the Dimensions of Attitude Toward Science (DAS) Instrument. Attention to the attitudes of primary teachers toward teaching science is of fundamental importance to the professionalizat...

Attention to the attitudes of preservice and inservice primary teachers toward science is of fundamental importance to research on primary science education. However, progress in this field of research has been slow due to the poor definition and conceptual-ization of the construct of primary teachers' attitude toward science. This poor theoretical...

Achieving a positive attitude towards science and technology is seen as a highly important factor within the VTB-Pro program. Besides a coherent offer of knowledge and skills in science and technology and insights into inquiry-based learning, the VTB-Pro program calls for explicit attention to a more positive attitude towards science and technology...

The study on primary teachers’ attitudes towards science and technology has received considerable research attention over the last decades. However, if one looks at the extant literature in this domain, a major problem that becomes apparent is the lack of consistency in the conceptualization of what is meant by teacher attitudes. Attitude is a comp...

This book presents the research output of the Dutch project VTB-Pro, an internationally-oriented project that aimed at providing primary school teachers with the knowledge, abilities and attitudes that are necessary to implement science and technology education in their classes. An introductory chapter by Wynne Harlen and Pierre Lena positions this...

This paper focuses on the importance of starting science and technology education at a young age and at the consequential importance of providing primary school teachers with enough professional background to be able to effectively incorporate science and technology into their teaching. We will discuss a large-scale program in The Netherlands that...

Tell me and I’ll forget – Show me and I may remember – Involve me and I’ll understand: leereffecten van educatieve software vergeleken met een traditionele lesmethode Tell me and I’ll forget – Show me and I may remember – Involve me and I’ll understand: leereffecten van educatieve software vergeleken met een traditionele lesmethode In een mediaverg...

This study investigated whether emotions induced in TV-viewers (either as an emotional state or co-occurring with emotional involvement) would increase viewers' perception of realism in a fake documentary and affect the information value that viewers would attribute to its content. To that end, two experiments were conducted that manipulated (a) pa...

Dit boek is het eerste in een reeks van onderzoekspublicaties over wetenschap en techniek in het primair onderwijs in Nederland. Het is mede een gevolg van de inspanningen op dit terrein zoals gekanaliseerd door het Platform Beta Techniek met de programma's VTB en VTB-Pro. Het boek bevat bijdragen van diverse onderzoekers in vijf delen: (1) het kad...

Based on experiential learning theory (Kiili, 2005), the present study investigated whether information that is deducted through playful experience from an educational game is recalled better than similar information that is conveyed by instruction. In a media-comparison experiment, half of 108 children in Grade 5 worked on a series of lessons by m...

To examine whether violence in fictional and news television content frightens and worries children. Mixed factorial. Type of reaction (fright, worry) and television programming (violent news, violent fiction) were within-subjects factors, whereas age, sex, and television viewing frequency were between-subjects factors. Participants included 572 ch...

In the world’s largest quantitative media analysis of children’s TV so far the main characters of fictional programmes in 24 countries were coded. The results show a clear underrepresentation and stereotyped depiction of female characters worldwide.

In deze derde Technotopics bundel worden opnieuw enkele studies over de verschillende fasen van zowel de school- als de beroepsloopbaan van bètatechnici nader belicht. In twee studies met betrekking de onderwijsloopbaan wordt er specifiek ingegaan op de belangstelling voor techniek in het basisonderwijs en de doorstroom van mbo techniek naar het hb...

In a survey among 451 elementary school children (8 to 12 years old), the authors investigate (a) to what extent children's exposure to news coverage of a violent news event is related to their feelings of fear, worry, anger, and sadness and (b) to what extent active (i.e., helping children understand what they see on the news) and restrictive (i.e...

Traditionally, the public and professional debate about the inappropriateness of media violence for children focuses mainly on the negative effects of violence in entertainment programming. However, since the terrorist attacks on September 11th and the recent coverage of the war in Iraq, the suitability of real-life news violence for children may b...

The study tested the validity of 2 rival explanations for the relative effectiveness of television and print news: the reading control versus the semantic overlap hypothesis. Participants (N = 100) were either exposed to television stories containing different text-picture formats or to printed versions. The study thus combined the designs of inter...

The present paper describes a content analysis of the coverage of the events related to September 11th 2001 by the Dutch Children's News. Since 1980, the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts a daily children's news programme (Jeugdjournaal) that is specifically designed for children aged 9-12. The Children's News selects news topics on the bas...

Using telephone interviews among a random sample of 537 Dutch children aged 7-12 years old, we investigated (a) the prevalence of fear reactions to television news among younger and older children and among boys and girls, (b) what types of news items children in different age and gender groups refer to as frightening, and (c) whether children's fe...

A new coding scheme and method of analysis were proposed to assess the level of text-picture correspondence in television news. The method focuses on alternating text-picture correspondences within news items and uses the proportional time devoted to each correspondence category as the dependent variable. It is argued that the coding method could b...

This survey was designed to investigate the opinions of news consumers about the broadcasting of one of the most devastating news events: parents who kill their own children (filicides). Data were collected in The Netherlands at a time when a sudden increase in filicides occurred. Three groups of news consumers were surveyed: parents (n = 255), tea...

Experiments comparing television and print news have shown that children learn most from television, whereas adults learn most from print. An experiment was conducted in which both 96 children (5th and 6th graders) and 96 adults (university students) were presented with a sequence of five news stories, either in their original televised form or in...

Recent research has shown that children remember more from television news than from print news, a finding that has been explained by the extra mnemonic support offered by redundant television pictures (the dual-coding hypothesis). The present study was designed to examine three alternative explanations, which attribute children's superior recall o...

Communication researchers commonly believe that print is a more effective medium to convey news information than television because print offers more opportunity to exercise control over the processing of information than television does. The superiority of print news has been supported by a number of media comparison experiments conducted with adu...

Recent research has shown that children remember more from television news than from print news, a finding that has been explained by the extra mnemonic support offered by redundant television pictures (the dual-coding hypothesis). The present study was designed to examine three alternative explanations, which attribute children's superior recall o...

A partial replication study was conducted comparing children's recall of news stories presented via television and via print. Unlike the procedure in previous experiments, television news stories were compared not only with literal transcripts of the television narratives, but also with two different real newspaper versions written by journalists....

Veel opvoeders weten uit ervaring dat kinderen onrustig en agressief kunnen worden van opzwepende films of avonturenprogramma's en dat kinderen nachtmerries kunnen krijgen van bepaalde televisieprogramma's. Maar dezelfde opvoeders weten ook dat sommige kinderen en adolescenten het heerlijk vinden om te griezelen bij een enge film en slechts met moe...

Communication researchers commonly believe that print is a more effective medium to convey news information than television because print offers more opportunity to exercise control over the processing of information than television does. The superiority of print news has been supported by a number of media comparison experiments conducted with adu...

An experiment was conducted (a) to compare children's recall of news information presented either audiovisually or in print, and (b) to establish whether the relative effectiveness of both media in conveying the news is dependent on children's reading proficiency and expectation of a memory test. A sample of 152 4th and 6th graders was presented wi...

An experiment was conducted (a) to compare children's recall of news information presented either audiovisually or in print, and (b) to establish whether the relative effectiveness of both media in conveying the news is dependent on children's reading proficiency and expectation of a memory test. A sample of 152 4th and 6th graders was presented wi...

Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1998. "Stellingen" (1 leaf) inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.