A step-by-step approach to building confidence in anxiety-prone young children.

Issues such as climate change, the depletion of natural resources or social inequality are too complex to be addressed from a single scientific discipline or by a single country. Leiden University has the expertise to bring the resolution of these enormous problems a small step closer.

The current migration flow into Europa demands effective measures. Leiden experts examine whether these measures are legal and hold up a mirror to policy-makers.

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Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, Y. Tan, Co-promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

Together we can make science open. Find the next step that fits your journey here.

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra

Latent variable modeling of students' solution strategies and performance

In order to choose your master, it is important to do some soul searching. If you know who you are, what you want, and what you find important in life, you will be better able to assess what suits you and what can help you to come to the right decision.

How do you decide which master's programme suits you best?

Have you found a few programmes that interest you? Take the time to find out all there is to know about them.

Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotores: B. de Smit, F. Andreatta

This study tests whether behavioural problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.

Inverse problems are problems where we want to estimate the values of certain parameters of a system given observations of the system. Such problems occur in several areas of science and engineering. Inverse problems are often ill-posed, which means that the observations of the system do not uniquely…

This master specialization offers you a combination of theories about learning problems and impairments and intervention and prevention strategies from a developmental perspective.

The complexity of an intelligence problem determines to a great extent the certainty that can be provided by intelligence and security services.

The Learning and Behavior Problems in Education program group is responsible for teaching in the area of learning problems.

There are many different ways to find a master.

What are best practices for teaching students to engage with 'wicked' problems?

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Portegies Zwart

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

The research of the group Learning and Behavior Problems in Education addresses learning difficulties in the areas of reading (technical reading and reading comprehension) math and writing, and examines learning-related behaviors behaviors.

How does invasive hybridization affect threatened native species?

Heterogeneous catalysis is essential to many industrial applications. These catalysts are often comprised of supported nanoparticles, which contain various different surface sites.

Getting started with active learning & teaching can be as simple as assessing on what is already accomplished. Here are some practical courses of action to begin experimenting with active learning, whether you are a teacher or responsible for the spaces.

When you have finished your dissertation, it is time to prepare for the defence procedure.

Leiden University social scientists have shown that customised intervention pays off. A new fundamental research-based approach in children who are in danger of going off the rails has delivered spectacular results.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, A. Enge Co-Promotor: T.C. Streng

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

The program group Learning and Behavior Problems in Education: Challenges and Solutions strive to find solutions to the learning and behavior challenges faced by preschool and elementary-school children, youth, and young adults in education. In doing so, the group focuses on cognition and behavior and…

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Which educational and child welfare interventions offer optimal opportunities for positive development to children with severe behavioral and emotional disorders.

Until recently, the role of external information processing in intelligence has rarely been investigated quantitatively or experimentally. A group of researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University, GGZ Rivierduinen, and University of Edinburgh measured in a new way how and when people…

The program group Learning and Behavior Problems in Education is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.

Why do some parties fail to settle conflict, even after long periods of fighting? ISGA PhD candidate Valerie Sticher suggests that costly concessions often stand in the way of a negotiated agreement. Conflict party members not only care about their in-group's welfare, but also want to avoid rewarding…

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O.W. van Gaans

How do we approach education that facilitates creative confidence for students that leads to innovative solutions to society’s present day and future sustainability challenges? This education research project tackles a sustainability dilemma faced by households in everyday life viz.

Polymyxins are clinically used antibiotics, discovered in mid-20th century. Once abandoned due to excessive nephrotoxicity, they are now used increasingly to address infections caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria.In this thesis, we describe the development and synthesis of analogues…

This dissertation aims at discussing the nature and the linguistic factors assumed responsible for speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English.

In this article, Lianne Visser contributed to the understanding of why collaborative governance is a challenging response to wicked problems.

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Uncertainty and noise are frequently-encountered obstacles in real-world applications of numerical optimization. The practice of optimization that deals with uncertainties and noise is commonly referred to as robust optimization.