Projects
The impact of teachers’ mental representations of dyadic teacher-child relationships on social information processing: New insights from affective priming research KU Leuven
The extended attachment perspective on teacher-child relationships states that teachers internalize
experiences with specific children into a mental representation of the dyadic relationship. These
mental relationship representations are believed to shape cognitive-affective and behavioral
responses towards children. According to this perspective, understanding teachers’ mental
relationship presentations (MR) is of ...
What if you could pay what you want for this research project? Understanding the key succes factors of participative pricing strategies. KU Leuven
Organizations increasingly adopt pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing systems, which allow customers to determine the amount of money they want to spend on products or services. Prior research examined extensively how customers determine the price they want to pay, as well as whether introducing PWYW pricing systems increases revenue. The literature did not yet examine how employees perceive PWYW pricing systems, despite the fact that they are ...
Research into the driving force of multi-species habitat selection as a link between local and regional biodiversity patterns in aquatic (meta) communities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Enhancing the research possibilities of the IMOB driving simulator Hasselt University
Towards a blueprint for successful collaborative writing and revision in higher education: the interplay of instruction, interaction and writing processes and  task complexity and their relation to text quality. KU Leuven
Fostering rephrasing and cohesion strategies in academic writing in a foreign language through automated writing evaluation Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the potential and the added value of automated feedback on written syntheses produced by students of German in Flemish higher education, targeting their strategies regarding cohesion building and textual borrowing. Writing from sources in a foreign language (L2) is a genre that students majoring in languages need to master. However, because their linguistic resources are limited, they often merely cut-andpaste ...
Technology-assisted writing training in Parkinson's Technology-assisted writing training in Parkinson's KU Leuven
The basal ganglia play an important role in motor learning, especially during the consolidation phase. This raises the question whether it is possible to sustain learning increments in a neurodegenerative condition such as Parkinsons disease (PD). The aim of this study is to gain knowledge on whether it is possible to relearn skills which are actually affected by PD, such as writing, and determine whether neuroplasticity is possible. In this ...
Writing Christian history in the language of Islam: a study on the beginnings of Christian historical writing in Arabic (mid 9th-early 11th cent.) Ghent University
This project aims at investigating the origins of Christian historiography in Arabic, by studying the earliest six preserved texts. These works deserve our attention because they both mirrored and impacted the identity-building of the communities that produced them,as well as their self-representation in the daily confrontation with each other and with the Muslims.
Synthesis writing in upper-secondary education: From a baseline of texts and processes to process-oriented feedback KU Leuven
Context
This dissertation was carried out within the framework of the LIFT-project. The LIFT-project (Improving pre-university students' performance in academic synthesis tasks with Level-up Instructions and Feedback Tool) is a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project's goal was to provide feedback and instruction on students' synthesis writing, based on national baseline data.
It is important that ...