Promotion Amber Walraven

Friday December 19th 2008 Amber Walraven, researcher of CELSTEC, defended her doctoral thesis. A link to RTL 4 news about her work is included.

The title of her thesis is 'Becoming a critical researcher; effects of instruction to foster transfer', and is about the importance to teach students to evaluate information found on Internet when accomplishing school tasks. In her research she concluded that students should learn at school how to google effectively for correct information. Students must be learned to be critical towards the source of information. She found that students currently are just cutting and pasting information rather uncritically to be used into reports they have to create at school.
 

The full text of the thesis is available on DSpace.

Amber was interviewed for Radio 1 and 3FM News at the 16th of December. She was also on RTL4 news (see below).

RTL4 News Wednesday 19.30