J Brouwer
Biographic Data
| ID | 21896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Brouwer |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brouwer |
| SIGNATURE | BROUWER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7332-9320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sense of belonging and professional identity in first year students’ peer networks
Background Students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) and professional identity can support adjustment and academic success during the challenging transition to HE. However, little is known about how these constructs co-develop over time, and how peer networks play a role in this process. Aims This study investigates the dynamic and reciprocal development of students’ sense of belonging, professional identity, and peer networks during …
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences
Social network analysis is useful for obtaining a better understanding of antecedents and mechanisms of relationship formation and interactions between individuals in educational and psychological contexts. Research utilising descriptive and cross-sectional applications of network analysis is regularly reported, but longitudinal analyses of networks have received less scrutiny. In this methodological article, we compare three commonly applied app…
The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education
How do personality traits affect the formation of friendship and preference-for-collaboration networks
Intuitively, personality traits may shape friendships differently from academic connections, potentially influencing social support development. Yet, this remains understudied, while it is crucial for student's wellbeing. Therefore, this study investigates how the personality traits of the Five-Factor Model interact with the role friendships and preferred collaboration relationships. In a sample of 95 university students, socio-centric data were …
Turning Points in Professional Commitment Development: The Case of Novice Nurses
We investigated the development of professional commitment over time and its relation to work experiences of novice nurses. We used a longitudinal mixed-method approach based on weekly reported quantitative commitment scores and qualitative descriptions of experiences. Specifically, we examined turning points in commitment trajectories and analyzed qualitative characteristics of the turning point. To determine a turning point, we firstly computed…
A social network perspective on peer relationship formation of medical undergraduates within large-scale learning communities
Students become more connected within the LC when they remain in the same LC for a longer period. Formal networks enhance the students' informal interactions within LCs but seem to restrict the interactions among students from other LCs. International students need support in order to integrate with domestic students in LCs
Exploring change in networks supporting the deliberate practice of popular musicians
Popular musicians are embedded in dynamic networks supporting their expertise development across different phases. During these phases, network actors support different aspects of deliberate practice in which a musician needs to engage to become an expert. Research in the domain of music is scarce in terms of investigating the change in the supportive networks of deliberate practice over time. Semi-structured interviews with five expert and five …
The role of prosocial attitudes and academic achievement in peer networks in higher education
After the transition to university, students need to build a new peer network, which helps them to adapt to university life. This study investigated to what extent students’ prosocial attitudes and academic achievement facilitate the embeddedness in friendship and help-seeking networks, while taking structural network characteristics into account. Participants were 95 first-year bachelor’s degree students and were part of learning communities con…
Quality of network support for the deliberate practice of popular musicians
To become an expert in music, an individual goes through different phases of deliberately practising domain-specific activities with the support of actors within his or her network. These network actors are often referred to in the research literature as “persons in the shadow,” because they are for the most part unnoticeable to an audience. Systematic research on popular music does not touch upon who these persons in the shadow are and how they …
Determinants of peer selection for collaborative group work of third-year bachelor students in a medical degree programme with learning communities
The social capital theory reveals the importance of peer relationships on students' learning. However, it is unclear how students select their collaborators under the influence of their previous collaborations and backgrounds. This study explores to what extent students' free selection choices for collaborators among their peers are based on previous collaboration in formally structured groups (i.e., learning communities (LCs)) and based on diffe…
Collaborative spirit: Understanding distributed leadership practices in and around teacher teams
While the effects of distributed leadership are widely studied, how to understand this practice in sociocultural contexts is relatively unknown. Mostly only one contextual level – such as the school level – is studied. We included individual, team, and school levels, and investigated differences in distributed leadership among 14 collaborative innovation-oriented teacher teams (130–168 teachers and their principals). Using a mixed-method design, …
The development of university teachers’ collaboration networks during a departmental professional development project
The development of communication networks of pre-service teachers on a school-led and university-led programme of initial teacher education in England
Unfolding collaborative learning assessment literacy: A reflection on current assessment methods in higher education
Over the past two decades, curricula in higher education have increasingly incorporated collaborative learning. However, due to (a) large variations in students’ domain-specific abilities (e.g. knowledge and/or skills) and the effort they invest into the collaboration and (b) teachers’ limited knowledge about how to assess collaborative learning, two main challenges arise. The first challenge concerns ensuring construct validity of the assessment…
De Renaissance in Spanje, Kultuur, Litteratuur, Leven
How do personality traits affect the formation of friendship and preference-for-collaboration networks
Intuitively, personality traits may shape friendships differently from academic connections, potentially influencing social support development. Yet, this remains understudied, while it is crucial for student's wellbeing. Therefore, this study investigates how the personality traits of the Five-Factor Model interact with the role friendships and preferred collaboration relationships. In a sample of 95 university students, socio-centric data were …
The development of university teachers’ collaboration networks during a departmental professional development project
De Renaissance in Spanje, Kultuur, Litteratuur, Leven
The development of communication networks of pre-service teachers on a school-led and university-led programme of initial teacher education in England
Unfolding collaborative learning assessment literacy: A reflection on current assessment methods in higher education
Over the past two decades, curricula in higher education have increasingly incorporated collaborative learning. However, due to (a) large variations in students’ domain-specific abilities (e.g. knowledge and/or skills) and the effort they invest into the collaboration and (b) teachers’ limited knowledge about how to assess collaborative learning, two main challenges arise. The first challenge concerns ensuring construct validity of the assessment…
The development of university teachers’ collaboration networks during a departmental professional development project
Exploring change in networks supporting the deliberate practice of popular musicians
Popular musicians are embedded in dynamic networks supporting their expertise development across different phases. During these phases, network actors support different aspects of deliberate practice in which a musician needs to engage to become an expert. Research in the domain of music is scarce in terms of investigating the change in the supportive networks of deliberate practice over time. Semi-structured interviews with five expert and five …
The role of prosocial attitudes and academic achievement in peer networks in higher education
After the transition to university, students need to build a new peer network, which helps them to adapt to university life. This study investigated to what extent students’ prosocial attitudes and academic achievement facilitate the embeddedness in friendship and help-seeking networks, while taking structural network characteristics into account. Participants were 95 first-year bachelor’s degree students and were part of learning communities con…
Quality of network support for the deliberate practice of popular musicians
To become an expert in music, an individual goes through different phases of deliberately practising domain-specific activities with the support of actors within his or her network. These network actors are often referred to in the research literature as “persons in the shadow,” because they are for the most part unnoticeable to an audience. Systematic research on popular music does not touch upon who these persons in the shadow are and how they …
Determinants of peer selection for collaborative group work of third-year bachelor students in a medical degree programme with learning communities
The social capital theory reveals the importance of peer relationships on students' learning. However, it is unclear how students select their collaborators under the influence of their previous collaborations and backgrounds. This study explores to what extent students' free selection choices for collaborators among their peers are based on previous collaboration in formally structured groups (i.e., learning communities (LCs)) and based on diffe…
Collaborative spirit: Understanding distributed leadership practices in and around teacher teams
While the effects of distributed leadership are widely studied, how to understand this practice in sociocultural contexts is relatively unknown. Mostly only one contextual level – such as the school level – is studied. We included individual, team, and school levels, and investigated differences in distributed leadership among 14 collaborative innovation-oriented teacher teams (130–168 teachers and their principals). Using a mixed-method design, …
A social network perspective on peer relationship formation of medical undergraduates within large-scale learning communities
Students become more connected within the LC when they remain in the same LC for a longer period. Formal networks enhance the students' informal interactions within LCs but seem to restrict the interactions among students from other LCs. International students need support in order to integrate with domestic students in LCs
Turning Points in Professional Commitment Development: The Case of Novice Nurses
We investigated the development of professional commitment over time and its relation to work experiences of novice nurses. We used a longitudinal mixed-method approach based on weekly reported quantitative commitment scores and qualitative descriptions of experiences. Specifically, we examined turning points in commitment trajectories and analyzed qualitative characteristics of the turning point. To determine a turning point, we firstly computed…
Longitudinal social network methods for the educational and psychological sciences
Social network analysis is useful for obtaining a better understanding of antecedents and mechanisms of relationship formation and interactions between individuals in educational and psychological contexts. Research utilising descriptive and cross-sectional applications of network analysis is regularly reported, but longitudinal analyses of networks have received less scrutiny. In this methodological article, we compare three commonly applied app…
The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education
How do personality traits affect the formation of friendship and preference-for-collaboration networks
Intuitively, personality traits may shape friendships differently from academic connections, potentially influencing social support development. Yet, this remains understudied, while it is crucial for student's wellbeing. Therefore, this study investigates how the personality traits of the Five-Factor Model interact with the role friendships and preferred collaboration relationships. In a sample of 95 university students, socio-centric data were …
Sense of belonging and professional identity in first year students’ peer networks
Background Students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) and professional identity can support adjustment and academic success during the challenging transition to HE. However, little is known about how these constructs co-develop over time, and how peer networks play a role in this process. Aims This study investigates the dynamic and reciprocal development of students’ sense of belonging, professional identity, and peer networks during …
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Friendship (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (4 works)