dr. A.M. van Dijk (Alieke)

Alieke van Dijk (Amersfoort, 1987) started to study Sociology (BSc) at Groningen University in 2005. After finishing her bachelor, she continued with Psychology at the University of Twente in 2008. For her master’s thesis, she examined the role of working preference in scripted collaborative drawing in elementary education. In 2010, she started working at the section Instructional Technology at the University of Twente. After one year working as junior research in the European project SCY, she started a PhD-project at the same section. In 2015, she went to Saxion University of Applied Sciences, working on projects concerning self-regulation, citizenship education, and Dalton education. In December 2017, she received her doctor’s degree by the defense of her thesis called “Learning together in mixed-ability elementary classrooms”. Currently, she is working as a lecturer in Psychology in Learning & Instruction at the University of Twente.

Expertise

• Psychology

  • Groups
  • Children
  • Abilities
  • Drawings

• Computer Science

  • Education
  • Learning Experiences

• Social Sciences

  • Ability
  • Learning

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Self-regulated learning
• Student autonomy
• Learning by design
• Collaborative learning
• Collaborative drawing
• Giftedness
• Elementary education
• Jigsaw method
• Citizenship Education
• Dalton education

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Current projects

BE COOL!+

Promoting self-regulation in inquiry learning

Project, funded by TechYourFuture, in which we combined differentiated support for self-regulation with differentiated instruction for inquiry learning in science lessons. Duration: 2019-2022

BE COOL!

Bevorderen van Excellentie door Onderzoekend en Ontwerpend Leren

In this OnderwijsBewijs-project (funded by the Ministry of OC&W), we developed a digital learning environment based on inquiry learning and learning by design in which children of different ability levels worked in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups. In total, 34 schools in primary education participated in the project. Duration: 2011-2015

Address

University of Twente

Capitool 15 (building no. 78), room 314
Capitool 15
7521 PL Enschede
Netherlands

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University of Twente

Cubicus (building no. 41), room B220
De Zul 10
7522 NJ Enschede
Netherlands

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