Marieke van der Schaaf is a professor of Research and Development in Health Professions Education at University Medical Center Utrecht. She was Principle Coordinator of the FP7 EU WatchMe project regarding Workplace-based e-Assessment technology in higher education driven by Learning Analytics www.project-watchme.eu. This included a cooperation between 8 academic institutes for professional education (teacher education, medical education, veterinary education) and 3 non-scientific medium enterprises throughout Europe (and California USA).

She is also a researcher in the ‘VQuest’ team that develops and researches digital e-assessments with radiological images: http://vquest.bluefountain.nl.

She is part of a research team with Arthur Bakker, Shakila Shayan and Dor Abrahamson (Berkeley) that researches the use of tablet technology, especially embodied design for proportional reasoning in mathematics. The team collects tracedata, eyetracking data and think aloud data to get more insight in pupils' learning.

Feedback is important for students’ development and for (becoming) professionals. Though several studies point to general characteristics of effective feedback (e.g., Shute, 2008), it is also shown that feedback often does not produce unequivocal positive effects and may even hamper learning (Alvero, Bucklin, & Austing, 2001; Duijnhouwer, 2010; Kluger & DeNisi, 1996). In my current research I study feedback and assessment situations in different settings and how these can be improved, for instance in higher education and medical education. Regarding the latter technological and digital developments CT and MRI images are nowadays visualized in multiplanar (3D) setting and specialists can ‘interact’ with images by navigating through slices. This requires development of new medical specialists’ expertise. The overachring aim is to find out how professional expertise development can be stimulated by means of feedback. Mixed-method approaches combining surveys, eye-tracking, thinking aloud and computer interaction analyses are characteristics of my research into the effects of different feedback approaches.

Co-Supervision of two postdocs and 9 PhD-students (5 defended their theses) in educational sciences and medical education.

Grants

2018

Main applicant UU-USO THERMOS-project: Teachers Monitoring Students 2018-2021

Co-applicant Erasmus+ EU-project OfLA, Learning Analytics 2018-2021. Main applicant: Nothingham University

2017

Co-applicant EU KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, KA203-Strategic Partnerships for higher education, Erasmus+: MA in Educational Technology: A New Online Blended Learning Program for New Member States (1-9-2017 till 31-8-2020). Main applicant: Tartu University Estonia

Main applicant STIM-grant HowULearn: Internal grant Faculty of Social Sciences to write an USO-project to evaluate student and teacher development in collaboration with University of Helsinki

Co-applicant USO-project E-quality. Assessing the Quality of Assessment [Kwaliteit van toetsing beoordeeld]. Main applicant: Veterinary Education UU

Main applicant The X-games, Online and Open onderwijs. Min OCW.

Co-applicant IV4J Innovation in VET for Jobs and Employment (Erasmus +). Contract no. 2016-1-DE02-KA202-003271 Principal Coordinator: FA-Magdeburg GERMANY

2015

Co-applicant. Demonstrator grant NWO, digital assessment with VQuest. Main applicant: UMCU

2014

Main applicant: Internal grant ‘profilerings postdoc ELS’ (2 years fulltime). Embodied expertise: to get a feel for 2D and 3D visualizations in vocations. Co-applicant: dr. A. Bakker.

2013

Main applicant WATCHME: Workplace-based e-Assessment technology for Competency-based higher Multi-professional Education, FP7 Strep; Technology enhanced learning.

Main applicant IMAGEME: IMage interpretation Assessment using loGs for Evaluation in Medical Education Surf foundation

2011

Main applicant Digital assessment in images, an additional dimension. 2012-2014. Surf foundation. Developmental and research project.

2010

Main applicant Assessing in images. 2010-2013. Surf foundation. Research project.

2007

Co-applicant Teachers’ professionalization, Feedback on Reflection. 2007-2012. Grant NWO-PROO. Part of an interlinked research project with Leiden University (ICLON) and Eindhoven school of Education.

2003

Main applicant Development and assessment of cross-curricular skills using a student portfolio. 2004-2010.

2000

Main applicant Assessing teacher competences related to teaching students research skills. 2000- 2005. Grant NWO-PROO 411-21-204.

Grants in Practice-oriented research (short term research NRO)

2000-2001

Main applicant, project leader ‘Measures for self-regulated learning’.

Main applicant, project leader ‘Construction of a monitoring instrument about teaching self-regulated learning’

Co-applicant, project leader ‘Practical assignments in Classical languages’