In September 2021, the UvA TLC network launched the interfaculty ‘Education Research Fellows Programme’. The programme supports UvA teachers in conducting research into their ow teaching practice, and thereby contribute to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at the UvA. Its goal: to better understand student learning and improve teaching.
Activities and guidance from the programme
UvA teachers participating in this programme set up and then carry out their own SoTL project for 1 day a week for two years. In addition, the Education Research Fellows Programme offers monthly meetings in the form of guest lectures or working sessions. The fellows also receive individual support from a mentor with knowledge and experience in conducting educational research. Their (preliminary) results are shared in a symposium organized annually by the programme.
18 UvA teachers participated in the first cohort of the programme, which ran from September 2021 until July 2023. The programme’s second cohort consists of 14 participants and has started in September 2023.
Goals of the Education Research Fellows Programme
18 educators participated in the first batch of the programme between September 2021 and July 2023. Read more about their studies and results.
The second batch of fellows started in September 2023. In the overview below, you can read which fellows have started their research. More information will follow in the third quarter of 2023.
Naam | Faculteit |
Alana Helberg-Proctor | FMG |
Inge van der Welle | FMG |
Mona Hegazy | FGw |
Gerda van Roozendaal | IIS |
Maurits de Klepper | AUC |
Rene Glastra van Loon | TLC |
Nicos Starreveld | FNWI |
Carlos Serrano | ACTA |
Dora Achourioti | AUC |
Ellen de Jong | FEB |
Sandra Cornelisse | FNWI |
Dominic Teodorescu | FMG |
Regina Nockerts | FMG |
Wendy Homan | FdG |
Hundreds of academics from around the world gathered to talk about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). UvA TLC researcher Svenne Groeneweg hosted a session with three other panellists from different higher education institutions on the different SoTL programmes here.
Research Fellow Joost van Kordelaar (FMG, former FNWI) researched rubrics as an assessment tool within the theme of (Formative) assessment and feedback. The psychometric properties of rubrics and assessor satisfaction formed the core of his project. He developed a dashboard that allows assessors to analyze psychometric properties, such as validity and reliability, of their rubrics. In addition, he examined assessor satisfaction of rubrics with a questionnaire survey.
Rosanne van Wieringen (IIS, former FMG) is 1 of the researchfellows who investigated her own teaching practice with the aim of better understanding and improving it. Rosanne investigated what Impact Learning and transformative learning mean to Placemaking students.
18 teachers participated in the first batch of the Education Research Fellows Programme, which ran from September 2021 to July 2023. The first results of the projects are now known.