Dr. Ellen Kok

Martinus J. Langeveldgebouw
Heidelberglaan 1
Kamer E3.34
3584 CS Utrecht

Dr. Ellen Kok

Universitair docent
Educatie
030 253 4944
e.m.kok@uu.nl

Publicaties

2026

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Isahakyan, A., Asoodar, M., de Koning, B. B., Kok, E., Li, Z., van Nooijen, C. C. A., Crombag, G. A. J. C., & Paas, F. (2026). Exploring Communication Dynamics and Perceptions in Radiology Readouts: A Comparative Analysis of Peer and Mentored Learning Interactions. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. Advance online publication. [DOI]

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van Nooijen, C. C. A., de Koning, B. B., Kok, E., Isahakyan, A., Asoodar, M., & Paas, F. (2025). Face to face with an expert: Exploring joint visual attention during forensic face and feature comparison learning in expert-novice pairs. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 83, Article 102419. [DOI] [Repository]
de Jonge, T. H. S., Berti, A., van Schijndel, S., van Wermeskerken, M., & Kok, E. (2025). Unraveling Coherence: The Impact of Image-Relatedness in Concept Learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39(3), Article e70054. [DOI] [Repository]

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van Nooijen, C. C. A., de Koning, B. B., Bramer, W. M., Isahakyan, A., Asoodar, M., Kok, E., van Merrienboer, J. J. G., & Paas, F. (2024). A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Understanding Expert Scaffolding of Visual Problem-Solving Tasks: A Scoping Review. Educational Psychology Review, 36(1), 1-42. Article 12. [DOI] [Repository]
Korteland, R.-J., Kok, E., Hulshof, C., & Van gog, T. (2024). Teaching through their eyes: effects on optometry teachers’ adaptivity and students’ learning when teachers see students’ gaze. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 29(5), 1735-1748. [DOI] [Repository]
Kok, E. M., Niehorster, D. C., van der Gijp, A., Rutgers, D. R., Auffermann, W. F., van der Schaaf, M., Kester, L., & van Gog, T. (2024). The effects of gaze-display feedback on medical students’ self-monitoring and learning in radiology. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 29(5), 1689-1710. [DOI] [Repository]
Braumann, S., van de Pol, J., Kok, E., Pijeira-Díaz, H. J., van Wermeskerken, M., de Bruin, A. B. H., & van Gog, T. (2024). The role of feedback on students’ diagramming: Effects on monitoring accuracy and text comprehension. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 76, 1-21. Article 102251. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kok, E. M. M., Jarodzka, H., Sibbald, M., & van Gog, T. (2023). Did You Get That? Predicting Learners' Comprehension of a Video Lecture from Visualizations of Their Gaze Data. Cognitive Science, 47(2), 1-39. Article e13247. [DOI] [Repository]
Emhardt, S. N., Kok, E., van Gog, T., Brandt-Gruwel, S., van Marlen, T., & Jarodzka, H. (2023). Visualizing a Task Performer’s Gaze to Foster Observers’ Performance and Learning: a Systematic Literature Review on Eye Movement Modeling Examples. Educational Psychology Review, 35(1), 1-34. Article 23. [DOI] [Repository]
Kok, E., & van den Broek, G. (2023). ET_cam_home. A script for assessing webcam-based eye-tracking data quality, running AOI analyses and visualizing data. https://github.com/EllenMKok/ET_cam_home

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kok, E., Hormann, O., Rou, J., van Saase, E., van der Schaaf, M., Kester, L., & van Gog, T. (2022). Re-viewing performance: Showing eye-tracking data as feedback to improve performance monitoring in a complex visual task. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(4), 1087-1101. [DOI] [Repository]

Vakpublicaties

Campen, C. A. N. K., & Kok, E. (2022). Eye-tracking in het leesonderwijs. Als je weet waar de leerling naar kijkt, wat zou je dan doen? Tijdschrift voor Remedial Teaching, 30(4).

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Knoop-Van Campen, C. A. N., Kok, E., Doornik, R. V., Vries, P. D., Immink, M., Jarodzka, H., & Gog, T. V. (2021). How teachers interpret displays of students’ gaze in reading comprehension assignments. Frontline Learning Research, 9(4), 116-140. [DOI] [Repository]
Kok, E. M., Sorger, B., van Geel, K., Gegenfurtner, A., van Merriënboer, J. J. G., Robben, S. G. F., & de Bruin, A. B. H. (2021). Holistic processing only? The role of the right fusiform face area in radiological expertise. PLoS One, 16(9), 1-20. Article e0256849. [DOI] [Repository]
van Montfort, D., Kok, E., Vincken, K. L., van der Schaaf, M., van der Gijp, A., Ravesloot, C., & Rutgers, D. (2021). Expertise development in volumetric image interpretation of radiology residents: what do longitudinal scroll data reveal? Advances in Health Sciences Education, 26(2), 437-466. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Nobel, J. M., Kok, E. M., & Robben, S. G. F. (2020). Redefining the structure of structured reporting in radiology. Insights into Imaging, 11(1), Article 10. [DOI] [Repository]
Emhardt, S. N., Kok, E. M., Jarodzka, H., Brand-Gruwel, S., Drumm, C., & van Gog, T. (2020). How Experts Adapt Their Gaze Behavior When Modeling a Task to Novices. Cognitive Science, 44(9), Article e12893. [DOI] [Repository]
Chisari, L. B., Mockevičiūtė, A., Ruitenburg, S., van Vemde, L., Kok, E. M., & van Gog, T. A. J. M. (2020). Effects of prior knowledge and joint attention on learning from eye movement modelling examples. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 36(4), 569-579. [DOI] [Repository]

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van Geel, K., Kok, E. M., Krol, J. P., Houben, I. P. L., Thibault, F. E., Pijnappel, R. M., van Merriënboer, J. J. G., & Lobbes, M. B. I. (2019). Reversal of the hanging protocol of Contrast Enhanced Mammography leads to similar diagnostic performance yet decreased reading times. European Journal of Radiology, 117, 62-68. [DOI] [Repository]
Kok, E. M. (2019). Eye tracking: the silver bullet of competency assessment in medical image interpretation? Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(2), 63-64. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nijnatten, T. J. A., Smidt, M. L., Goorts, B., Samiei, S., Houben, I., Kok, E. M., Wildberger, J. E., Robben, S. G. F., & Lobbes, M. B. I. (2019). Can high school students help to improve breast radiologists in detecting missed breast cancer lesions on full-field digital mammography? Journal of Cancer, 10(3), 765-771. [DOI] [Repository]
Geel, K. V., Kok, E. M., Aldekhayel, A. D., Robben, S. G. F., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2019). Chest X-ray evaluation training: impact of normal and abnormal image ratio and instructional sequence. Medical Education, 53(2), 153-164. [DOI] [Repository]
Martin, L. J., Turnquist, A., Groot, B., Huang, S. Y. M., Kok, E., Thoma, B., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2019). Exploring the Role of Infographics for Summarizing Medical Literature. Health Professions Education, 5(1), 48-57. [DOI] [Repository]

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Harteis, C., Kok, E. M., & Jarodzka, H. (2018). The journey to proficiency: Exploring new objective methodologies to capture the process of learning and professional development. Frontline Learning Research, 6(3), 1-5. [DOI] [Repository]
Kok, E., De Bruin, A. B., van Geel, K., Gegenfurtner, A., Heyligers, I., & Sorger, B. (2018). The Neural Implementation of Surgical Expertise Within the Mirror-Neuron System: An fMRI Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, Article 291. [DOI] [Repository]
Blissett, S., Sibbald, M., Kok, E., & van Merrienboer, J. (2018). Optimizing self-regulation of performance: is mental effort a cue? Advances in Health Sciences Education, 23(5), 891-898. [DOI]

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kok, E. M. (2017). The neuroscience of motor expertise in real-world tasks. In H. David, C. Guillermo, & M. Brooke (Eds.), The science of expertise: Behavioral, Naural and Genetic Approaches to Complex Skill
Gegenfurtner, A., Kok, E., van Geel, K., de Bruin, A., Jarodzka, H., Szulewski, A., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2017). The challenges of studying visual expertise in medical image diagnosis. Medical Education, 51(1), 97-104. [DOI]
de Bruin, A. B. H., Kok, E. M., Lobbestael, J., & de Grip, A. (2017). The impact of an online tool for monitoring and regulating learning at university: overconfidence, learning strategy, and personality. Metacognition and Learning, 12(1), 21-43. [DOI]
Kok, E. M., & Jarodzka, H. (2017). Before your very eyes: the value and limitations of eye tracking in medical education. Medical Education, 51(1), 114-122. [DOI]
Van Geel, K., Kok, E. M., Dijkstra, J., Robben, S. G. F., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2017). Teaching Systematic Viewing to Final-Year Medical Students Improves Systematicity but Not Coverage or Detection of Radiologic Abnormalities. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 14(2), 235-241. [DOI]
Kok, E. M., Van Geel, K., van Merrienboer, J. J. G., & Robben, S. G. F. (2017). What We Do and Do Not Know about Teaching Medical Image Interpretation. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1-8. [DOI] [Repository]
Gegenfurtner, A., Kok, E. M., Van Geel, K., de Bruin, A. B. H., & Sorger, B. (2017). Neural correlates of visual perceptual expertise: Evidence from cognitive neuroscience using functional neuroimaging. Frontline Learning Research, 5(3), 14-30. [DOI] [Repository]
Kok, E. M., & Jarodzka, H. (2017). Beyond your very eyes: eye movements are necessary, not sufficient. Medical Education, 51(11), 1190. [DOI] [Repository]
Zwaan, L., Kok, E. M., & van der Gijp, A. (2017). Radiology education: a radiology curriculum for all medical students? Diagnosis, 4(3), 185–189. [DOI]
Kok, E., Aizenman, A. M., Võ, M. L.-H., & Wolfe, J. M. (2017). Even if I showed you where you looked, remembering where you just looked is hard. Journal of Vision, 17(12), 1-11. [DOI]
Kok, E. M., Abed, A., & Robben, S. G. F. (2017). Does the Use of a Checklist Help Medical Students in the Detection of Abnormalities on a Chest Radiograph? Journal of Digital Imaging, 30(6), 726-731. [DOI] [Repository]

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Leppink, J., Kok, E. M., Bergman, E. M., Van Loon, M. H., & De Bruin, A. B. H. (2016). Four common pitfalls of quantitative analysis in experimental research. Academic Medicine, 91(6), 891. [DOI]
Lobbestael, J., de Bruin, A., Kok, E., & Voncken, M. (2016). Through rose-coloured glasses: An empirical test of narcissistic overestimation. Personality and Mental Health, 10(4), 305-316. [DOI]
Kok, E. M., Jarodzka, H., de Bruin, A. B. H., BinAmir, H. A. N., Robben, S. G. F., & van Merrienboer, J. J. G. (2016). Systematic viewing in radiology: seeing more, missing less? Advances in Health Sciences Education, 21(1), 189-205. [DOI]

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kok, E. M., de Bruin, A. B. H., Leppink, J., van Merriënboer, J. J. G., & Robben, S. G. F. (2015). Case Comparisons: An Efficient Way of Learning Radiology. Academic Radiology, 22(10), 1226-1235. [DOI]

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Bruin, A. B. H., Kok, E. M., Leppink, J., & Camp, G. (2014). It might happen in the very beginning. Reply to Ericsson. Intelligence, 45(1), 107-108. [DOI]
De Bruin, A. B. H., Kok, E. M., Leppink, J., & Camp, G. (2014). Practice, intelligence, and enjoyment in novice chess players: A prospective study at the earliest stage of a chess career. Intelligence, 45(1), 18-25. [DOI]

2013

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Van Loon, M. H., Kok, E. M., Kamp, R. J. A., Carbonell, K. B., Beckers, J., Frambach, J. M., & De Bruin, A. B. H. (2013). AM last page: Avoiding five common pitfalls of experimental research in medical education. Academic Medicine, 88(10), 1588. [DOI]
Kok, E. M., de Bruin, A. B. H., Robben, S. C. F., & van Merrienboer, J. J. G. (2013). Learning radiological appearances of diseases: Does comparison help? Learning and Instruction, 23, 90-97. [DOI]

2012

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kok, E. M., de Bruin, A. B. H., Robben, S. G. F., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2012). Looking in the same manner but seeing it differently: Bottom-up and expertise effects in radiology. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26(6), 854-862. [DOI]