Projects

The aim of this project is studying the impact and added value of self and peer assessment in wiki-based computer-supported collaborative learning environments. Within higher and secondary setting, the impact on students' self regulated learning and performance will be studied, together with the differential impact of the amount, type, and quality of the feedback within the peer assessment conditions.

It is generally accepted by learning scientists that assessment is an important drive of the learning process (Hunt, Hughes & Rowe, 2002) and that changes in educational approaches often require new forms of assessment (Dochy, Heylen, & Van de Mosselaar, 2002). This project focuses on studying peer assessment processes in face-to-face classrooms settings and how these processes can be improved.

The inclusion of maladaptive trait assessment in diagnostic processes of severe mental health problems in youth is increasingly valued. Early identification efforts in this regard are particularly oriented towards vulnerable youth with a developmental phenotype that resembles borderline personality pathology (BPP), known for its destructive outcomes when left untreated. The current project aims to elaborate the promising situational judgement ...

P2P-SmartTest project investigates and demonstrates a smarter electricity distribution system integrated with advanced ICT, regional markets and innovative business models. It will employ Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches to ensure the integration of demand side flexibility and the optimum operation of DER and other resources within the network while maintaining second-to-second power balance and the quality and security of the supply. The ...

Adolescence is a highly sensitive life period, during which social relationships with peers may have powerful repercussions for youth development, some of which can last a lifetime. With the transition to adolescence, youth become increasingly sensitive to their peers, and they develop a strong motivation to form and maintain positive relationships with them. Adolescents who struggle to achieve this goal (e.g., friendless) and those who are ...

Anesthesia is the medical specialty that focuses on comfort and safekeeping of patients during surgical, minimally invasive and interventional procedures. Anesthetic practitioners aim to attenuate acute postoperative pain and to reduce the incidence of chronic pain. This doctoral thesis will focus on 2 interventions in the perioperative setting that may be able to ameliorate the quality of the care, provided to ...

While previous research has shown that parent-child and teacher-student relationships are key to children’s executive functioning (EF) and learning outcomes, the effects of peer relationships have been little studied. Therefore, we aim to examine the effects of peer inclusion and exclusion, viewed as a continuum where inclusion and exclusion are the left and right pole of one scale, on these outcomes in four studies ...

The project seeks to improve the understanding of primary school pupil’s socioemotional competence and conditions for its development. The research has three objectives. Firstly, it investigates the psychometric properties of a newly-developed socioemotional understanding test called the Domino Test for Socioemotional Understanding (DOTSEMU). Secondly, it examines the impact of the intervention aimed at developing socioemotional ...

The general aim of this doctoral project was to increase our insights into the qualitative and quantitative assessment methods for childhood-onset dystonia and choreoathetosis. Dystonia and choreoathetosis are movement disorders that interfere with activities of daily living and have a tremendous impact on quality of life. Dystonia and choreoathetosis can occur in children after a brain lesion near birth, as a consequence ...