Roel van Steensel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6807606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roel van Steensel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roel |
| FAMILY NAME | van Steensel |
| SIGNATURE | VAN STEENSEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5682-3354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emotions Are Not Random
Emotion research in second language learning has largely focused on static, trait-based measures, especially anxiety, while neglecting contextual and temporal dynamics. This study reconceptualizes emotions as emergent and context-dependent, shaped by real-time interactions with learning activities and self-perceptions. Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), 92 adult learners reported their emotional states (anxiety, enjoyment, boredom), per…
Affirming and Undermining Motivations and Adolescents' Reading Comprehension
Background Undermining motivations are relatively new to reading motivation research. In the current study, we first tried to answer the question whether relations between reading comprehension, affirming and, particularly, undermining reading motivations (Avoidance, Perceived Difficulty in Reading) differed for secondary schoolers from different educational tracks (prevocational vs. general/pre‐university). Second, we analysed whether educationa…
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading
Although research on the home literacy environment and its impact on early literacy has long focused on mothers, the past decade has seen a shift in scholarly attention to the role of fathers. Building on this shift, we examined whether the nature of parent–child interactions during shared storybook reading varies with parent gender, child gender and the interaction between the two, and we analysed whether possible differences in the nature of mo…
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children
The goals of the present study were to compare the reliability and convergent validity of two reading attitude measures for beginning readers and to get more insight into children’s reading attitude around the transition to formal reading instruction. 468 children in kindergarten and Grade 1 completed a more traditional questionnaire based on Aarnoutse’s (1990) Reading Attitude Scale and an alternative instrument based on Nielen et al.’s (2016) P…
Home-Visiting in a Shared Reading Intervention
Research Findings: In this study, we examined the short- and long-term effects of Reading Express, a home-visiting intervention in which volunteers encourage low socio-economic status and ethnic minority parents to engage in interactive shared reading with their child. Outcomes of a quasi-experiment involving 176 children in the Netherlands (mean age 72 months; nexperimental = 95; ncontrol = 81) revealed favorable outcomes of Reading Express for …
Nudging to Stimulate Reading in Primary and Secondary Education
Many students infrequently read during leisure time. Due to fast, unconscious decisions, they may overlook the possibility of reading. We tested the impact of nudging on reading frequency, reading attitude, and reading skills. Two studies targeting Grades 4 to 6 ( N = 105) and Grades 7 and 8 ( N = 146) compared: (1) a nudging condition—participants twice a week receiving reminders to read, (2) an information condition—participants once receiving …
Not your cup of coffee? An ethnographic study on interparental dynamics during parental involvement activities in Dutch primary schools
Parental involvement in children’s education contributes to children’s educational success. Most schools, therefore, aim to increase parental involvement and organise school-based activities that provide parents with interaction opportunities with teachers, school administrators, and other parents. Although the impact of parental involvement is studied frequently, little attention has gone into examining the interparental dynamics during school-b…
Effects of a Dutch Family Literacy Program
It is hypothesized that variability found in the effects of family literacy programs results from differences in implementation by parents. In this study, the implementation and effects of a Dutch program were examined in a sample of 207 kindergarteners (mean age at pre-test: 64 months). No main intervention effects on children’s literacy development were found. The quality of implementation proved to be higher for high-SES and native Dutch (spea…
Measuring Parental Literacy Beliefs in a Socio-Economically, Linguistically and Ethnically Diverse Sample
Research Findings: The current study examined the use of a newly developed instrument for measuring parental literacy beliefs in a highly diverse urban Dutch sample of 35 parents, participating in a family literacy program. The instrument was used to explore a new conceptualization of parental literacy beliefs and associations between beliefs and parental demographic characteristics. Data were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative tech…
Effects of Family Literacy Programs on the Emergent Literacy Skills of Children From Low-SES Families
The aim of this meta-analysis was to investigate effects of family literacy programs on the emergent literacy skills of children from low socioeconomic status families (0–6) and to establish which program, sample, study, and measurement characteristics moderate program effects. Outcomes of 48 (quasi-)experimental studies covering 42 different programs revealed a medium average effect of Cohen’s d = 0.50 on immediate posttests and a marginal avera…
Inferencing questions embedded in a children’s book help children make more inferences
The ability to deduce implicit information about relations in a text (i.e., inferencing) is essential to understanding that text. Hence, there is increasing attention for supporting inferencing skills among children in early literacy programs including shared book reading interventions. This study investigated whether embedding scripted inferencing questions in a story that children (4.3–6.6 years) and parents ( N = 32 parent–child dyads) read to…
The tacit dimension of parental mediation
Studies into the way parents mediate their children’s (digital) media use are challenging. A reason for this is that parents are not always aware of what they do and why, as their choices do not necessarily involve rational decision-making. In the present study we adopted the notion of “tacit knowledge” (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Polanyi, 1966) to explore how and why parents of young children mediate digital media use. In-depth interviews were con…
Assessing reading comprehension in adolescent low achievers
On the basis of a validation study of a new test for assessing low-achieving adolescents’ reading comprehension skills – the SALT-reading – we analyzed two issues relevant to the field of reading test development. Using the test results of 200 seventh graders, we examined the possibility of identifying reading comprehension subskills and the effects of task specificity on test reliability. Regarding the former, we distinguished three subskills in…
Relations between socio‐cultural factors, the home literacy environment and children's literacy development in the first years of primary education
This paper deals with the relation between children's home literacy environments (HLE) and their literacy development in the first phase of primary school. On the basis of a broad conceptualisation of the HLE, we identified three home literacy profiles (rich, child‐directed and poor HLE). Firstly, we related these profiles to socio‐cultural factors (more specifically, ethnicity and socio‐economic status [SES]). We found an association between the…
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Relations between socio‐cultural factors, the home literacy environment and children's literacy development in the first years of primary education
This paper deals with the relation between children's home literacy environments (HLE) and their literacy development in the first phase of primary school. On the basis of a broad conceptualisation of the HLE, we identified three home literacy profiles (rich, child‐directed and poor HLE). Firstly, we related these profiles to socio‐cultural factors (more specifically, ethnicity and socio‐economic status [SES]). We found an association between the…
Assessing reading comprehension in adolescent low achievers
On the basis of a validation study of a new test for assessing low-achieving adolescents’ reading comprehension skills – the SALT-reading – we analyzed two issues relevant to the field of reading test development. Using the test results of 200 seventh graders, we examined the possibility of identifying reading comprehension subskills and the effects of task specificity on test reliability. Regarding the former, we distinguished three subskills in…
The tacit dimension of parental mediation
Studies into the way parents mediate their children’s (digital) media use are challenging. A reason for this is that parents are not always aware of what they do and why, as their choices do not necessarily involve rational decision-making. In the present study we adopted the notion of “tacit knowledge” (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Polanyi, 1966) to explore how and why parents of young children mediate digital media use. In-depth interviews were con…
Inferencing questions embedded in a children’s book help children make more inferences
The ability to deduce implicit information about relations in a text (i.e., inferencing) is essential to understanding that text. Hence, there is increasing attention for supporting inferencing skills among children in early literacy programs including shared book reading interventions. This study investigated whether embedding scripted inferencing questions in a story that children (4.3–6.6 years) and parents ( N = 32 parent–child dyads) read to…
Effects of a Dutch Family Literacy Program
It is hypothesized that variability found in the effects of family literacy programs results from differences in implementation by parents. In this study, the implementation and effects of a Dutch program were examined in a sample of 207 kindergarteners (mean age at pre-test: 64 months). No main intervention effects on children’s literacy development were found. The quality of implementation proved to be higher for high-SES and native Dutch (spea…
Measuring Parental Literacy Beliefs in a Socio-Economically, Linguistically and Ethnically Diverse Sample
Research Findings: The current study examined the use of a newly developed instrument for measuring parental literacy beliefs in a highly diverse urban Dutch sample of 35 parents, participating in a family literacy program. The instrument was used to explore a new conceptualization of parental literacy beliefs and associations between beliefs and parental demographic characteristics. Data were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative tech…
Effects of Family Literacy Programs on the Emergent Literacy Skills of Children From Low-SES Families
The aim of this meta-analysis was to investigate effects of family literacy programs on the emergent literacy skills of children from low socioeconomic status families (0–6) and to establish which program, sample, study, and measurement characteristics moderate program effects. Outcomes of 48 (quasi-)experimental studies covering 42 different programs revealed a medium average effect of Cohen’s d = 0.50 on immediate posttests and a marginal avera…
Not your cup of coffee? An ethnographic study on interparental dynamics during parental involvement activities in Dutch primary schools
Parental involvement in children’s education contributes to children’s educational success. Most schools, therefore, aim to increase parental involvement and organise school-based activities that provide parents with interaction opportunities with teachers, school administrators, and other parents. Although the impact of parental involvement is studied frequently, little attention has gone into examining the interparental dynamics during school-b…
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children
The goals of the present study were to compare the reliability and convergent validity of two reading attitude measures for beginning readers and to get more insight into children’s reading attitude around the transition to formal reading instruction. 468 children in kindergarten and Grade 1 completed a more traditional questionnaire based on Aarnoutse’s (1990) Reading Attitude Scale and an alternative instrument based on Nielen et al.’s (2016) P…
Home-Visiting in a Shared Reading Intervention
Research Findings: In this study, we examined the short- and long-term effects of Reading Express, a home-visiting intervention in which volunteers encourage low socio-economic status and ethnic minority parents to engage in interactive shared reading with their child. Outcomes of a quasi-experiment involving 176 children in the Netherlands (mean age 72 months; nexperimental = 95; ncontrol = 81) revealed favorable outcomes of Reading Express for …
Nudging to Stimulate Reading in Primary and Secondary Education
Many students infrequently read during leisure time. Due to fast, unconscious decisions, they may overlook the possibility of reading. We tested the impact of nudging on reading frequency, reading attitude, and reading skills. Two studies targeting Grades 4 to 6 ( N = 105) and Grades 7 and 8 ( N = 146) compared: (1) a nudging condition—participants twice a week receiving reminders to read, (2) an information condition—participants once receiving …
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading
Although research on the home literacy environment and its impact on early literacy has long focused on mothers, the past decade has seen a shift in scholarly attention to the role of fathers. Building on this shift, we examined whether the nature of parent–child interactions during shared storybook reading varies with parent gender, child gender and the interaction between the two, and we analysed whether possible differences in the nature of mo…
Emotions Are Not Random
Emotion research in second language learning has largely focused on static, trait-based measures, especially anxiety, while neglecting contextual and temporal dynamics. This study reconceptualizes emotions as emergent and context-dependent, shaped by real-time interactions with learning activities and self-perceptions. Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), 92 adult learners reported their emotional states (anxiety, enjoyment, boredom), per…
Affirming and Undermining Motivations and Adolescents' Reading Comprehension
Background Undermining motivations are relatively new to reading motivation research. In the current study, we first tried to answer the question whether relations between reading comprehension, affirming and, particularly, undermining reading motivations (Avoidance, Perceived Difficulty in Reading) differed for secondary schoolers from different educational tracks (prevocational vs. general/pre‐university). Second, we analysed whether educationa…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (11 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Literacy (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Comprehension (5 works)