Ron Oostdam

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) · Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE)

Schools, as well as state authorities and teachers’ training colleges, are focusing more and more on the relationship with parents. After all, research shows, that a good cooperation between parents and schools, both pedagogical and didactical, has positive effects on the pupils’ learning results and well-being. This book surveys what education spe...

Blended learning environments (BLEs) have become an indispensable part of higher education and an essential part of course delivery. Although teachers need to be active agents in facilitating students’ self-regulation and interaction, little is known to what extent such support is provided. This study investigated the use of self-regulation strateg...

In this response to Diamond is a scientist's best friend, Oostdam argues that commercial publishers may be needed for solutions towards open access publication.

Primary and secondary school teachers are expected to adapt their teaching to the diverse educational needs of students through differentiated instruction (DI). This review included 29 peer-reviewed published articles from 2010 to 2020 evaluating the contribution of preservice and in-service teacher programs for DI. We synthesized program component...

Effective teaching for democracy requires an understanding of the teaching methods and educational characteristics that are effective in interventions. In order to address this requirement, we conducted a systematic literature review. We used an extensive search syntax and snowballing method that allowed us to find n = 2093 unique publications. Aft...

The current study investigates the effects of the school lockdowns during school years 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 on the achievement scores of primary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed scores for spelling, reading fluency (i.e., decoding speed), reading comprehension, and mathematics from standardized student tracking systems f...

This longitudinal study investigated reciprocal associations among various professional identity tensions and Dutch primary student teachers’ teacher identity. Students (N = 201, 82.9% female) completed the professional identity tensions scale and the teacher identity measurement scale across three waves. Random intercept cross-lagged panel models...

Providing high-quality feedback is essential for improving preservice teacher performance. Rather than post-lesson feedback, immediate performance feedback while teaching is considered effective. This article reports on developing and piloting a standardised tool for synchronous feedback. Eight teacher educators from a Dutch higher education instit...

Background Practical work in school science has been ineffective due to students not connecting hands-on to minds-on aspects. With the designation Thinking-Back-and-Forth (TBF)we present a framework with a taxonomy of TBF activities. Purpose Aim was to gain insight how teachers stimulate and support their students in TBF. Detailed information abou...

It is a challenge for mathematics teachers to provide activities for their students at a high level of cognitive demand. In this article, we explore the possibilities that history of mathematics has to offer to meet this challenge. History of mathematics can be applied in mathematics education in different ways. We offer a framework for describing...

Teaching history requires clear, detailed and subject specific language. History teachers teaching in a second language are confronted with students' second language limitations, which likely have an aggravating impact on their application of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). We analysed and compared 12 Dutch spoken and 12 English spoken paired...

• Citizenship education is in teacher training in the Netherlands linked to both the pedagogical and didactic tasks of teachers. • The task of teachers to stimulate the development of values in students is addressed a lot less often. • The idea of democracy and rule of law as a framework for citizenship is not mentioned in most knowledge bases....

In dit artikel wordt verslag gedaan van een pilot onderzoek naar het inzetten van VR-brillen bij het trainen van vierdejaars pabo-studenten in het voeren van oudergesprekken. Op grond van een facetdesign zijn verschillende scripts uitgewerkt voor twee typen oudergesprekken die veelal als lastig en moeilijk worden ervaren: het voortgangsgesprek en h...

Although self-regulation is an important feature related to students’ study success as reflected in higher grades and less academic course delay, little is known about the role of self- regulation in blended learning environments in higher education. For this review, we analysed 21 studies in which self-regulation strategies were taught in the cont...

This study investigates the effectiveness of the PRIMA antibullying program for elementary education using a cluster-randomized trial with two experimental conditions (with and without student lessons) and a control group. Students of 31 schools participated in the study (N = 3,135; M age = 10 years). Multilevel regression analyses demonstrated pos...

Most professionalisation programmes to support teacher educators as research supervisors focus on the development of research skills. The methodology of practice-oriented research, in addition to a clear vision on the function, and purpose of student research often receives little attention. At the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, we develo...

Information on students’ development of science skills is essential for teachers to evaluate and improve their own education, as well as to provide adequate support and feedback to the learning process of individual students. The present study explores and discusses the use of performance assessments as a diagnostic tool for formative assessment to...

Although anti-bullying programs often include a component that focuses on strengthening teachers’ abilities in identifying and addressing bullying, it is not clear which bullying situations teachers find difficult to address and what type of support is needed. In the current qualitative study, we investigated what teachers considered difficult bull...

This study aimed to design and validate the Teacher Identity Measurement Scale (TIMS) for assessing primary student teachers’ professional identity. Based on identity theory and a systematic review into quantitative instruments of teacher identity, teacher identity was decomposed in four first-order constructs: motivation, self-image, self-efficacy...

Bilingual education has become popular in many countries in the last two decades. It is generally acknowledged that learning a second language (L2) through subject content has a positive impact on students’ L2 learning, but there is less agreement on whether this also applies to learning subject content knowledge in and through L2. This cross-secti...

Background There has been an increasing interest in negative or ‘undermining’ motivations for reading. In this study, we aimed to strengthen knowledge on the validity of the distinction between affirming and undermining motivations. First, we examined whether the structure of a questionnaire based on this distinction could be confirmed. Second, we...

Even though teachers are key figures of a program's effectiveness, most intervention studies have not focused explicitly on the effects of antibullying programs at teacher level. We conducted a meta‐analysis into the effects of school‐based antibullying programs on determinants of teacher intervention, including teachers’ attitudes towards bullying...

Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus and type of task. These were compared to the effe...

This study provides an overview of components of teacher identity that are found in quantitative measurement instruments; and reports on the psychometric quality of these measurement instruments. Our search included studies that assessed components of teacher identity published in English-written, peer-reviewed articles between 2000 and 2018. We an...

This research aims to develop and validate an instrument for measuring primary student teachers’ professional identity tensions. Based on dissonance theory, we transformed existing vignettes (Pillen, Den Brok, & Beijaard, 2013) into to a quantitative Professional Identity Tensions Scale (PITS) and added tensions regarding teaching in urban contexts...

Family literacy programs seek to improve a wide range of developmental aspects, of which an important one is how parents develop their children’s vocabulary. The effects of these programs are limited, partly because they appear to give insufficient guidance and support to parents in changing how they interact with their children. To increase the im...

Een centrale grondslag in de persoonlijkheidspedagogiek van Kohnstamm is dat elke leerling de kans moet worden geboden om zich naar eigen aard en aanleg te ontwikkelen. Om dat te realiseren zou er in het onderwijs rekening moeten worden gehouden met de onderlinge verschillen tussen leerlingen, een taak waarvoor de onderwijsgevende goed toegerust mo...

Although history standards generally aim at developing historical consciousness among secondary school students, there is not much research-based knowledge to support making connections between the past, the present, and the future in history teaching. This study examines the effects of teaching analogous cases of an enduring human issue in 2 exper...

Little is known about the effects of different instructional approaches on learner affect in oral interaction in the foreign language classroom. In a randomized experiment with Dutch pre‐vocational learners (N = 147), we evaluated the effects of 3 newly developed instructional programs for English as a foreign language (EFL). These programs differe...

In bilingual streams in the Netherlands, school subjects are taught in an additional language so that pupils learn both subject content and the target language by using language meaningfully. Teachers of English in bilingual streams (TEBs) are often expected to collaborate with subject teacher colleagues (STs). In addition, they teach separate lang...

History education frequently aims at developing active citizenship by using the past to orientate to the present and the future. A pedagogy for pursuing this aim is making connections between the past and the present by means of comparing cases of an enduring human issue. To examine the feasibility and desirability of this case-comparison teaching...

This study highlights tensions and challenges experienced by language teachers in CLIL contexts. Using an example from the Netherlands, it explores the pedagogical and collaborative practices of Teachers of English in Bilingual streams (TEBs). The study shows how, using formal and practical theories (Borg and Burns 2008. “Integrating Grammar in Adu...

This small-scale observational study explores how Dutch bilingual education history teachers (BHTs) focus on the L2 component in their CLIL-lessons. We observed and rated eight BHTs on five language teaching categories. Results show that Dutch BHTs focus more strongly on using the L2 to teach subject content and that they tend to be less engaged in...

Course materials play a vital role in the foreign language classroom. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to analyzing the activities that foster oral interactional ability in course materials for English as a foreign language (EFL). For the purpose of this study, a coding scheme was designed that focuses specifically on the develop...

Much research has been done into the relationship between students’ motivation to learn and their basic psychological needs as defined by the self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, relatedness). However, few studies have explored how these psychological needs relate to different types of maladaptive behavior in the classroom. To prevent o...

Student satisfaction gains an increasingly central position in the context of quality measurements. However, student satisfaction can also be stipulated as an important motivational factor for students as learners. This study combines this perspective on student satisfaction with the notion of differences in students’ ability. We hypothesize that d...

The role of subject teachers in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has received little attention, since most research focuses on language learning results of students. This exploratory study aims to gain insight into the perceptions of Dutch bilingual education history teachers by comparing teaching CLIL with regular history teaching....

In most primary science classes, students are taught science inquiry skills by way of learning by doing. Research shows that explicit instruction may be more effective. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of explicit instruction on the acquisition of inquiry skills. Participants included 705 Dutch fifth and sixth graders. Students...

Background With the increased attention on the implementation of inquiry activities in primary science classrooms, a growing interest has emerged in assessing students’ science skills. Research has thus far been concerned with the limitations and advantages of different test formats to assess students’ science skills. Purpose This study explores t...

Using the past to orientate on the present and the future can be seen as one of history's main contributions to educating future citizens of democratic societies. Because tools for pursuing this goal are scarce, this study explores three pedagogical approaches that may help teachers and students to make connections between the past, the present and...

For the first time in the Netherlands, the Adjustment Scales for Early Transition in Schooling (ASETS) have been applied to kindergarten and first-grade elementary school. A study was conducted to examine the relation between the different behavioral (phenotypes) and situational dimensions (situtypes) of the ASETS and learning performance on standa...

In CLIL contexts, school subjects are taught in an additional language, allowing learners to acquire the target language through meaningful use. This places language teachers in an ambiguous position. What is their role in this context? On the one hand, language teachers are expected to collaborate with subject teacher colleagues; on the other hand...

Following on from successful early intervention programs abroad, the Netherlands also introduced a number of different programs to tackle educational disadvantage in preschool and early years education. Studies that investigate the effects of Dutch early childhood interventions have been published since 2000. This meta-analytic review study summari...

The primary source for young children's vocabulary development is parent-child interaction. How parent-child interaction influences vocabulary depends on the child's functioning and the family context. Although research shows the effect of the family context on vocabulary (e.g., reading activities at home, parental education), the role of a child's...

What lecturers do and think are a prerequisite for educational change. It is therefore important to gain insight into factors that influence their involvement in educational reform. This study considers the effect of leadership and managerial constructs on lecturers’ commitment to the newly implemented honours programmes in a Dutch University of Ap...

This article explores ways to assess interactional performance, and reports on the use of a test format that standardizes the interlocutor’s linguistic and interactional contributions to the exchange. It describes the construction and administration of six scripted speech tasks (instruction, advice, and sales tasks) with pre-vocational learners ( n...

The relation between maladaptive behavior and the basic psychological needs of students in secondary education. Much research has been carried out towards the relationship between the basic psychological needs of students as defined within the self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, relatedness) and their motivation to learn. However, ther...

In Nederland zijn sinds 2000 verschillende publicaties verschenen waar de effecten van voor- en vroegschoolse educatie (vve) zijn onderzocht. Deze overzichtsstudie vat met behulp van een ‘multi-level’ meta-analyse 21 (deel)studies samen waarin ruim 50.000 kinderen zijn onderzocht in de periode 2000-2015 met in totaal 165 uitkomstmaten, verdeeld ove...

n Nederland zijn sinds 2000 verschillende publicaties verschenen waar de effecten van voor- en vroegschoolse educatie (vve) zijn onderzocht. Deze overzichtsstudie vat met behulp van een ‘multi-level’ meta-analyse 21 (deel)studies samen waarin ruim 50.000 kinderen zijn onderzocht in de periode 2000-2015 met in totaal 165 uitkomstmaten, verdeeld over...

Kunnen basisscholen een bijdrage leveren aan de preventie van gedragsproblemen bij hun leerlingen? Deze vraag vormde de aanleiding tot een pilot waaraan 30 scholen en 650 leer- lingen hebben meegedaan. De scholen zijn over drie condities verdeeld: a) een conditie waarbij in leerjaar 3 Taakspel werd gebruikt, evenals in leerjaar 4 (de Taak-spelcondi...

In de afgelopen jaren is er een steeds vroegere bijstelling te zien geweest van spelend leren naar een meer gestructureerde schoolse benadering. Eenzijdig de focus leggen op dergelijke vormen van ‘schools’ leren kan echter leiden tot negatieve effecten, omdat sommige jonge kinderen nog niet rijp zijn voor zo’n aanpak. Centraal in het onderzoek waar...

History teaching usually focuses on understanding the past as an aim in itself. Research shows that many students don’t see the point of this and perceive history as not very useful. Yet history plays a major role in the orientation on present and future. If students fail to see this, the question arises whether this is due to a lack of explicit at...

Leerlingen die al in de eerste jaren van de basisschool gedragsproblemen laten zien, lopen een risico op latere negatieve gevolgen. Dit gegeven is een belangrijk argument voor preventieve maatregelen vroeg in het basisonderwijs. Twee interventies die in eerder onderzoek effectief zijn gebleken ten aanzien van de preventie van gedragsproblemen, zijn...

In higher professional education (HBO) practice, student research supervisors for Bachelor's programmes are charged with a complicated task. They are expected to supervise students in conducting research within the context of an HBO system that has yet to define research for its own purposes, to determine what students should learn from research an...

To assess the efficacy of guided oral reading as a remedy for low-achieving readers, two experiments were conducted in the early grades of primary school. In the first, poor-reading students were randomly divided between two treatment groups and a control group. In treatment groups, the intervention was delivered one-to-one, either in a repeated re...

In this study, we analysed the relationships between word decoding, vocabulary knowledge, meta-cognitive knowledge and reading comprehension in low-achieving adolescents and examined whether the strength of these relationships differed between Grade 7 and 9 students and between monolingual and bilingual students. Tests were administered to 328 stud...

In deze lezing wordt ingegaan op de huidige stand van zaken met betrekking tot voorzieningen voor de kinderopvang. Besproken wordt wat er goed gaat en waar knelpunten zitten. Vervolgens komen enkele belangrijke inzichten uit het onderzoek ‘OpStap naar 2024’ van ChildCare International aan de orde. Ter afsluiting wordt gekeken naar de toekomst. Wat...

Samenvatting Veel landen in Europa zien zich voor de uitdaging geplaatst een samenhangend systeem te ontwikkelen waarin kinderopvang en onderwijs op elkaar zijn afgestemd en elkaar versterken. Ook in Nederland is een proces gaande waarbij basisonderwijs, kinderopvang, peuterspeelzalen en buitenschoolse opvang naar elkaar toegroeien. Dit vraagt om e...

Different theoretical models explain the supposed link between conduct problems and language skills. This study is aimed to clarify this link, as well as investigate the additive role of the social context in grade 1. Results indicate that conduct problems predict language skills, whereas language skills do not predict conduct problems. However, th...

Although parental involvement is often a priority on the quality agenda of schools for primary and secondary education, it is still not usual to involve parents as an educational partner in the actual learning process of their child. Rather than adopting an open approach, teachers tend to tell parents what they should do or keep them at a safe dist...

De afgelopen vijftien jaar zijn in Nederland diverse studies verricht naar de uitvoering en effectiviteit van programma's op het gebied van de voor-en vroegschoolse educatie (VVE). De daarmee tot nu toe behaalde resultaten zijn teleurstellend. Ter verklaring voor het uitblijven van effecten is in de onderzoeksliteratuur onder meer herhaaldelijk gew...