Simone Plak

PhD candidate @VUamsterdam & // Modeling Intelligence • Learning Analytics // Former: @ResMaPsychology Psychological Methods

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

New paper out🚀on the effect of #nudging tailored to students’ motivation and perceived ability levels to increase their behavioral engagement in an online educational activity. Published in BJET with @iljacornelisz and @CHRSVK. Read it here: https://t.co/on7dwFjb9P (1/7)

[SciSis @SciSis_uva]

How come women who give birth cannot add on the maternity leave time to their temporary research contracts?

Hoe kan het dat de tijdelijke contracten van vrouwen die net bevallen zijn niet met de duur van hun geboorteverlof worden verlengd?

#SciSis_ask

https://t.co/X8nnR19H9V

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

Article about our recently published paper: Raising Student Engagement using Digital Nudges Tailored to Students’ Motivation and Perceived Ability Levels. @iljacornelisz @CHRSVK

[ScienceGuide @ScienceguideNL]

Uit onderzoek van de @VUamsterdam blijkt dat #nudging mogelijk een positief effect heeft op studentbetrokkenheid. De #motivatie van de student speelt daarin een belangrijke rol. https://t.co/rCttZvzisD

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

"Do Nudges Work?" Excellent and clarifying essay by @mhallsworth
https://t.co/Pl0e7kCIIk

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

fostering a growth mindset, and increasing social belonging or positive identity activation through social comparison nudges that provide information about the behavior (not performance) of other students. (7/7)

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

New paper out🚀on the effect of #nudging tailored to students’ motivation and perceived ability levels to increase their behavioral engagement in an online educational activity. Published in BJET with @iljacornelisz and @CHRSVK. Read it here: https://t.co/on7dwFjb9P (1/7)

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

Suggestions for future research to increase engagement/participation in online educational activities through other nudging techniques are discussed, such as: boosting students’ belief in their ability through changes in the online environment, ... (6/7)

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

Had a great time attending the International Society of Intelligence Research (ISIR) conference in Vienna! Glad I got the opportunity to learn from many great researchers and to present my own PhD research: a Simulation-based Model of Intelligence Learning and Education (SMILE)

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

But today I am in Vienna, about to address the International Society for Intelligence Research on the nature of rationality, and how and whether it differs from intelligence. https://t.co/VIm4OJL6W7

[Stem op een Vrouw @StemopeenVrouw]

De toezegging was er al, en nu wordt het ook realiteit: de helft van de nieuwe ministers en staatssecretarissen is vrouw. Voor het eerst wordt in NL een kabinet aangesteld dat geen oververtegenwoordiging van mannen huisvest. 😧 Bekijk hier alle posten: https://t.co/To10Z4mfey

[Martijn Meeter @martijnmeeter]

Corona leidde tot #leervertragingen; hebben scholen die kunnen inhalen? Met o.a. @carlaHaelermans en @melcm onderzocht of dat is gelukt met de #inhaalprogramma’s van basisscholen. Ja, ze werkten: achterstand zijn niet weg, wel kleiner geworden terwijl de programma’s liepen.

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

@annemscheel Interesting read! Particularly the call for more formal theories in psychology, instead of verbal ones, which resonates with the papers of @BorsboomDenny and Robinaugh:
https://t.co/3Ppzrk3vxn
https://t.co/WE8YsUdBd3

[scott cunningham @causalinf]

All models are wrong but some are ridiculous

[Jelte Wicherts @JelteWicherts]

Large study using Elsevier submissions shows that during the first wave of the pandemic, women submitted proportionally fewer manuscripts than men. @squazzoni @mehmanib
https://t.co/iiiCbQhLYH

[Zenab Tamimy @zenabtamimy]

De universiteit moet meer pro-actief beleid voeren om een veilige werkomgeving te creëren en medewerkers in kwetsbare posities te beschermen. Ik schreef er een stukje over in @nrc ⬇️ https://t.co/6Ef8d0o8hz

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

@JuliaBeitner Thank you!! Haha yes definitely! Most important: Including students who are most at risk of dropping out, and providing actionable feedback and recommendations on how to incorporate digital data‐driven findings into the analogue human practice of student counseling.

[Simone Plak @PlakSimone]

Our paper on the Early Warning System implemented at VU university to assist student counselors in preventing dropout is now online! We accurately predicted students at risk, yet, sharing this information with student counselors did not reduce dropout. https://t.co/AntCWnKq91