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… the real world is serious business in which you must perform professional tasks, but the school is giving you free time to practice these tasks in a safe environment, using role-play, gaming, and all other kinds of simulation. The school is the place where you can do “as if” you are performing real-life tasks. Thus, the school helps you deal with real life. In this farewell lecture, I want to share four key insights that I gained over the last 40 years of doing research. They pertain to (1) the importance of linking the real world to our teaching, (2) the key role of learner support, (3) the complexity of teaching and learning processes, and (4) the teaching of domain-general skills. 1 - Reality My PhD research in the 1980s made me aware of the importance of bringing real life to the classroom. My research was on teaching computer … the question if they provided effective support for learning problem-solving tasks. The answer was: sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. If you run 30 experiments comparing the use of worked examples with non-supported problem solving, you may find 10 experiments showing that worked examples are superior to non-supported problem solving, 10 experiments showing the opposite, and 10 experiments showing no difference at all. In my thinking, such contradictory findings are more important for …

… Health and Social Psychology Sarah Stutterheim Assistant Professor | specialisation coordinator 17 November 2018 WELCOME! Today: • Overview Master programme - Courses - Internship possibilities • And after this Master? - Job possibilities Health and Social Psychology – 1 year Master • Master builds on Psychology Bachelor: - Social psychology, clinical psychology, … Course 2 Course 3 Course 4 Academic skills & research proposal September January February July What kind of research can you do? • Understanding behavior: asking ‘why?’ • Changing behavior: asking ‘how?’ • Healthy and unhealthy behaviors • REAL LIFE! Where can you do your internship? • Locally (‘internal’) with us, at Maastricht University - Different labs & methods • Or elsewhere (‘external’) - we have an extensive (inter)national network: - Sexual and reproductive health in Africa (e.g. Ghana, Zambia, South-Africa) - Traffic safety research with Hasselt University, Belgium - SoaAids Nederland (Dutch speaking students) - Technical University Zurich (Switzerland) - Contacts in the UK, Finland, Australia, Germany (Bochum, Berlin, Köln), Canada. Okay, but what topics are possible? Executive functions Sport & exercise psychology Positive psychology (ACT) Educational psychology Personality Behavior change Implicit …