UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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De Menselijke Maat in Beleid: Hoe ambtenaren van ministeries betekenis en invulling geven aan het begrip
(2025)Dit exploratieve onderzoek richt zich op de menselijke maat in beleid vanuit het perspectief van ambtenaren binnen ministeries. Naar aanleiding van schandalen zoals de toeslagenaffaire en het dalende vertrouwen in de ... -
Belonging and Becoming: Dutch Pre-service Teachers in Secondary Education Navigating Their Internships
(2025)The study examined how Dutch pre-service teachers (PSTs) experience workplace belonging during internships, guided by Allen et al. (2021) integrative framework. Through a basic qualitative study in which eight fourth-year ... -
Equal Opportunities in Flexible Learning Pathways: The Impact on Underrepresented Groups at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
(2025)This study explores how students from underrepresented groups experience Flexible Learning Pathways (FLPs) in higher education. While FLPs aim to increase student autonomy and allow for more personalised study programs, ... -
Who Sees What? The Role of Student Background Characteristics in Experienced and Observed Differences in Autonomy-Supportive Teaching
(2025)Autonomy-supportive teaching (i.e., providing choice, fostering relevance, and showing respect) is crucial for enhancing students' intrinsic motivation. However, previous research suggests that not all students perceive ... -
The Role of Communication Style in Argument Quality Rating Across Political Lines
(2025)Climate change is a topic of political divide, especially in online environments. This study investigates the impact of need-satisfying versus need-frustrating communication styles on perceived argument quality and the ... -
The relation between face drooping and the urgency allocation and the diagnosis of stroke or TIA at out-of-hours services of primary care
(2025)Background: Timely diagnosis of a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) is important to improve a patient’s clinical outcome. In the Netherlands, about all out-of-hours primary care services (OHS-PCs) use the “Netherlands ... -
Highly Engaged Non-Disordered Gamers: Personality traits and Motivation in Adolescent Gaming
(2025)Highly engaged gamers are rising within the Netherlands. This highlights the need to identify psychological mechanisms underlying a high gaming intensity among youth. This study examines whether social anxiety and ... -
Narrative Selection: On the Potentials of Alternative Evolutionary Theories for Refiguring the Human in Feminist Ecocritical Discourse
(2025)This thesis explores the presence of evolutionary narratives in the work of various feminist ecocritical scholars. It brings these narratives to the surface and examines which specific evolutionary scientific theories they ... -
Regeneration Beyond The State: Community-Led Transformations Of Social Relationships, Livelihoods, And Environment Through Tourism In Virolín, Colombia.
(2025)This thesis looks at the transformative potential and obstacles of regenerative community-based tourism (RCBT) in Virolín, a remote community in Colombia impacted by historical state neglect and armed conflict. Employing ... -
MR Fingerprinting for Thermometry: A Comprehensive Literature Study
(2025)Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Thermometry (MRFT) is evolving as an innovative and adaptable framework for non-invasive temperature mapping in thermal therapy. Traditional MR thermometry methods, notably Proton Resonance ... -
Overdiagnosis Associated with Incidental Findings Across Medical Specialities: A Scoping Review
(2025)Background: Overdiagnosis occurs when conditions are detected that would not have caused symptoms or death during a patient’s lifetime. A major contributor to this is the identification of incidental findings, or incidentalomas, ... -
Automated Testing of Agent-Driven Construction in 3D Environments
(2025)Automating agents to build structures in video games is an underdeveloped topic that could provide many applications in automated video game playtesting as well as improving artificial intelligence for non-player characters. ... -
Eye Behavior in Cognitively Demanding Games
(2025)Eye-tracking technology has long been utilized in fields such as marketing and monetization, yet its application in game development remains relatively underexplored. Understanding players’ visual attention can provide ... -
Monkey Behavior Observer: Implementing Usability-enhancing Interactivity Features in Educational 360°videos for Animal Behavior Observation training
(2025)Immersive 360°videos offer promising applications in education, especially in domains requiring visual observation and contextual awareness, such as, in this case, animal behavior research. However, their passive nature ... -
Investigating the Impact of Gamification in Interactive Online Tutorials for Low-Code Development
(2025)As reliance on software grows, the demand for software developers continues to outpace supply. Simultaneously, increasingly specialized software requires greater involvement from domain experts without programming knowledge, ...