Search results for author:"Ludo Verhoeven"
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Learning in a sheltered Internet environment: The use of WebQuests
Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Learning and Instruction Vol. 19, No. 5 (October 2009) pp. 423–432
The present study investigated the effects on learning in a sheltered Internet environment using so-called WebQuests in elementary school classrooms in the Netherlands. A WebQuest is an assignment presented together with a series of web pages to...
Language: English
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Cognitive and Linguistic Factors in Interactive Knowledge Construction
Ludo Verhoeven; Arthur Graesser
Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal Vol. 45, No. 4 (July 2008) pp. 289–297
Over the past few decades, the practice of education and training has been shifting from traditional knowledge transmission approaches to constructivist approaches of knowledge construction. This evolution is supported by research in cognitive...
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Long-Term Effects of Computer Training of Phonological Awareness in Kindergarten
Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 21, No. 1 (February 2005) pp. 17–27
The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min per week during one school year....
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Computer-Supported Phonological Awareness Intervention for Kindergarten Children with Specific Language Impairment
Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 35, No. 3 (July 2004) pp. 229–239
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to determine whether kindergarten children with specific language impairment (SLI) could develop phonological awareness skills through computer intervention and whether speech manipulation (i.e., slowing ...
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Connecting discourses: intertextuality in a primary school CSCL practice
Judith Kleine Staarman; Cor Aarnoutse; Ludo Verhoeven
International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 39, No. 8 (2003) pp. 807–816
This article investigates the multimodal discourses taking place in a primary school computer supported collaborative literacy environment, in which face-to-face talk in pairs is combined with computer-mediated communication. Following a socially...
Language: English
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Teacher-Mediated Versus Computer-Mediated Storybook Reading to Children in Native and Multicultural Kindergarten Classrooms
Eliane Segers; Lianne Takke; Ludo Verhoeven
School Effectiveness and School Improvement Vol. 15, No. 2 (2004) pp. 215–226
The study explored differences in story comprehension and vocabulary learning in children in native and multicultural kindergarten classrooms when listening to a story read to them by the computer or the teacher. The results showed that children (41 ...
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Assessment of Sign Language Development: The Case of Deaf Children in the Netherlands
Daan Hermans; Harry Knoors; Ludo Verhoeven
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (2010) pp. 107–119
In this article, we will describe the development of an assessment instrument for Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) for deaf children in bilingual education programs. The assessment instrument consists of nine computerized tests in which the...
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Learnability of graphotactic rules in visual word identification
Ludo Verhoeven; Rob Schreuder; R. Harald Baayen
Learning and Instruction Vol. 16, No. 6 (December 2006) pp. 538–548
Besides phonotactic principles, orthographies entail graphotactic rules for which the reader must convert a phonological representation on the basis of spelling adaptation rules. In the present study, the learnability of such rules will be...
Language: English
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Cognitive Load in Interactive Knowledge Construction
Ludo Verhoeven; Wolfgang Schnotz; Fred Paas
Learning and Instruction Vol. 19, No. 5 (October 2009) pp. 369–375
The focus of this special issue is on the cognitive load underlying processes of interactive knowledge construction in a wide range of instructional multimedia platforms. Multimedia comprehension involves the parallel processing of auditory-verbal...
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Emergent Literacy Activities, Instructional Adaptations and School Absence of Children with Cerebral Palsy in Special Education
Marieke Peeters; Jan de Moor; Ludo Verhoeven
Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 32, No. 2 (2011) pp. 659–668
The goal of the present study was to get an overview of the emergent literacy activities, instructional adaptations and school absence of children with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to normally developing peers. The results showed that there were...
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Benefits of Computer-Presented Speed Training for Poor Readers
Rosemarie S. Irausquin; Jeanine Drent; Ludo Verhoeven
Annals of Dyslexia Vol. 55, No. 2 (December 2005) pp. 246–265
The effects of computer-presented automatization exercises in a group of 14 poor readers were assessed in comparison to a matched control group of 14 poor readers that received computer-presented exercises aimed at the use of context for word...
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Individual Variation in Children's Reading Comprehension across Digital Text Types
Sabine S. Fesel; Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Journal of Research in Reading Vol. 41, No. 1 (2018) pp. 106–121
The present study examined children's digital text comprehension of digital text types linear digital text vs hypertext, with or without graphical navigable overviews. We investigated to what extent individual variation in children's comprehension...
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Comprehension and navigation of networked hypertexts
Helen Blom; Eliane Segers; Harry Knoors; Daan Hermans; Ludo Verhoeven
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 34, No. 3 (June 2018) pp. 306–314
This study aims to investigate secondary school students' reading comprehension and navigation of networked hypertexts with and without a graphic overview compared to linear digital texts. Additionally, it was studied whether prior knowledge,...
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Cognitive and linguistic constraints on phoneme isolation in Dutch kindergartners
Saskia de Graaff; Fred Hasselman; Anna M.T. Bosman; Ludo Verhoeven
Learning and Instruction Vol. 18, No. 4 (August 2008) pp. 391–403
This study investigated whether task instructions affect sound-isolation performance. The effects of phoneme class and phoneme position were also assessed. Two hundred Dutch kindergartners were presented with a free-sound-isolation task and its...
Language: English
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Spelling feedback in an ICT-learning environment: Issues of proficiency, training efficiency, and transfer
Anna M.T. Bosman; Martijn van Huygevoort; Ludo Verhoeven
International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 45, No. 6 pp. 341–361
This study was designed to compare the effectiveness of two different forms of feedback on spelling performance of Dutch Grade-2 students, that is, knowledge-of-results and informational feedback. In the knowledge-of-results feedback condition, the...
Language: English
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The Role of Executive Functions for Dyadic Literacy Learning in Kindergarten
Eva van de Sande; Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Early Education and Development Vol. 29, No. 2 (2018) pp. 192–206
The current study used a dyadic and coconstructive approach to examine how to embed exercises that support executive functioning into early literacy instruction to empower its effects. Using a randomized controlled trial design with 100 children, we ...
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Dyadic executive function effects in children's collaborative hypermedia learning
Cindy Paans; Eliane Segers; Inge Molenaar; Ludo Verhoeven
Learning and Instruction Vol. 60, No. 1 (April 2019) pp. 66–74
The current study investigated the extent to which executive functions (EF) affect how prior knowledge predicts hypermedia learning outcomes in primary school children. Learning outcomes were: individual knowledge and transfer, and dyadic assignment ...
Language: English
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Morphological Sensitivity in Deaf Readers of Dutch
Anne H. Van Hoogmoed; Ludo Verhoeven; Robert Schreuder; Harry Knoors
Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 32, No. 3 (2011) pp. 619–634
Deaf children experience difficulties with reading comprehension. These difficulties are not completely explained by their difficulties with the reading of single short words. Whether deaf children and adults lag behind in the morphological...
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The quality of the assignment matters in hypermedia learning
Cindy Paans; Eliane Segers; Inge Molenaar; Ludo Verhoeven
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 34, No. 6 (December 2018) pp. 853–862
In the present study, we investigated whether online learning behaviours (navigation and writing activities) mediated the relation between learner characteristics (prior knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, working memory, and motivation) and...
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Scientific Reasoning Abilities in Kindergarten: Dynamic Assessment of the Control of Variables Strategy
Joep van der Graaf; Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 43, No. 3 (May 2015) pp. 381–400
A dynamic assessment tool was developed and validated using Mokken scale analysis to assess the extent to which kindergartners are able to construct unconfounded experiments, an essential part of scientific reasoning. Scientific reasoning is one of...
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Child Predictors of Learning to Control Variables via Instruction or Self-Discovery
Barbara Wagensveld; Eliane Segers; Tijs Kleemans; Ludo Verhoeven
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 43, No. 3 (May 2015) pp. 365–379
We examined the role child factors on the acquisition and transfer of learning the control of variables strategy (CVS) via instruction or self-discovery. Seventy-six fourth graders and 43 sixth graders were randomly assigned to a group receiving...
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The Role of Sign Phonology and Iconicity during Sign Processing: The Case of Deaf Children
Ellen Ormel; Daan Hermans; Harry Knoors; Ludo Verhoeven
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (2009) pp. 436–448
To investigate the influence of sign phonology and iconicity during sign processing in deaf children, the roles of these sign features were examined using an experimental sign-picture verification paradigm. Participants had to make decisions about...
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Phonemic awareness in Dutch kindergartners: Effects of task, phoneme position, and phoneme class
Saskia de Graaff; Fred Hasselman; Ludo Verhoeven; Anna M.T. Bosman
Learning and Instruction Vol. 21, No. 1 (February 2011) pp. 163–173
The aim of the present study was to provide more insight in the relative difficulty of four tasks testing phonemic awareness: (a) blending, (b) isolation, (c) segmentation, and (d) deletion. At the same time the roles of phoneme position and phoneme ...
Language: English
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Discovering the laws of physics with a serious game in kindergarten
Joep van der Graaf; Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Computers & Education Vol. 101, No. 1 (October 2016) pp. 168–178
Serious games have unique strengths that can be used to augment science education. For the current study, we developed and investigated a serious game to assess kindergartners’ discovery of the laws of physics in the so-called Hippo app. The...
Language: English
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Individual differences in the development of scientific thinking in kindergarten
Joep van der Graaf; Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Learning and Instruction Vol. 56, No. 1 (August 2018) pp. 1–9
The present study examined the development of and individual variation in scientific thinking in kindergarten. We measured experimentation, evidence evaluation, and domain knowledge at two times in kindergarten (T1 and T2) in a sample of 100 five to ...
Language: English
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Gender-related effects of contemporary math instruction for low performers on problem-solving behavior
Rudolf E. Timmermans; Ernest C.D.M. Van Lieshout; Ludo Verhoeven
Learning and Instruction Vol. 17, No. 1 pp. 42–54
Effects of guided (GI) and direct instruction (DI) in solving subtraction problems for mathematically low performers in regular schools were compared. In the GI condition, self-development of solution procedures was encouraged whereas in the DI...
Language: English
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Pause Time Patterns in Writing Narrative and Expository Texts by Children and Adults
Janet G. van Hell; Ludo Verhoeven; Liesbeth M. van Beijsterveldt
Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal Vol. 45, No. 4 (July 2008) pp. 406–427
How do beginning and skilled writers compose a text in the course of time? To gain insight into the temporal aspects of planning and translating activities during writing, this article examined writing in real time and analyzed pause time patterns...
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The role of executive control in young children's serious gaming behavior
Eva van de Sande; Eliane Segers; Ludo Verhoeven
Computers & Education Vol. 82, No. 1 (2015) pp. 432–441
The present study examined (1) how executive control contributed to in-game behaviors in young children while playing a serious game, (2) whether the levels of control changed when the game was played repeatedly, and (3) how the first experience...
Language: English
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Integrated Pictorial Mnemonics and Stimulus Fading: Teaching Kindergartners Letter Sounds
Saskia de Graaff; Ludo Verhoeven; Anna M. T. Bosman; Fred Hasselman
British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 77, No. 3 (September 2007) pp. 519–539
Background: The conclusion from a vast literature on literacy acquisition is that letter knowledge is one of the best predictors of literacy development. The question of the best way to teach children letter sounds has not, as yet, been answered...
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Vocabulary Development in Children with Hearing Loss: The Role of Child, Family, and Educational Variables
Karien M. Coppens; Agnes Tellings; William van der Veld; Robert Schreuder; Ludo Verhoeven
Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 33, No. 1 (2012) pp. 119–128
In the present study we examined the effect of hearing status on reading vocabulary development. More specifically, we examined the change of lexical competence in children with hearing loss over grade 4-7 and the predictors of this change....