About Maaike

Since Summer 2008, I am the Research Manager of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. Before coming to the University of Amsterdam, I received my PhD in Educational Science from Utrecht University. I obtained my MA in English - specializing in linguistics - from the University of Groningen.

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About ASCoR

The Amsterdam School of Communication ResearchASCoR is the research institute in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. It is the largest research institute of its kind in Europe and is among the largest and most renowned research centers in communication science worldwide. More than 50 senior researchers are permanently associated with ASCoR, and its English-language PhD program hosts more than 30 students. ASCoR chairs the national research school, NeSCoR, the Netherlands School of Communications Research which is accredited by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW).

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ASCoR Research Management

As the ASCoR Research Manager I work, in close cooperation with the ASCoR Scientific Director and our three Program Group Directors, on the design, development, implementation, and assessment of ASCoR research, training, financial-administrative and communication policies. My tasks include, for example:

• (Re)developing local research policies.
• Managing and implementing research progress reports, research budget allocations, contract research, and selection of PhD candidates.
• Drafting output reviews, including annual reports and external assessment reviews.
• Promoting and supporting research grant acquisition from NWO (the national science foundation), the EU and other research sponsors.
• Managing and implementing the ASCoR PhD program, including PhD project monitoring.

Refereed journal articles

Prangsma, M. E., Van Boxtel, C. A. M., Kanselaar, G., & Kirschner, P. A. (2009). Concrete and abstract visualisations in history learning tasks. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 79 , 371-387 .

Prangsma, M. E., Van Boxtel, C. A. M., & Kanselaar, G. (2008). Developing a 'big picture': Effects of collaborative construction of multimodal representations in history. Instructional Science, 36, 117-136.

Erkens, G., Jaspers, J. G. M., Prangsma, M. E., & Kanselaar, G. (2005). Coordination processes in computer supported collaborative writing. Computers in Human Behavior, 21 , 463-486.

Refereed book chapters

Erkens, G., Prangsma, M. E., & Jaspers, J. G. M. (2006). Planning and coordinating activities in collaborative learning. In A. M. O'Donnell, C. E. Hmelo-Silver, & G. Erkens (Eds.), Collaborative learning, reasoning, and technology (pp. 233-265). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum .  

Erkens, G., Kanselaar, G., Prangsma, M. E., & Jaspers, J. G. M. (2003). Computer support for collaborative and argumentative writing. In E. De Corte, L. Verschaffel, N. Entwistle , & J. van Merriënboer (Eds.), Powerful learning environments: Unraveling basic components and dimensions (pp. 157-176). Amsterdam : Pergamon/Elsevier Science.

Kanselaar, G., Erkens, G., Andriessen, J. E. B., Prangsma, M. E., Veerman, A. L., & Jaspers, J. G. M. (2003). Designing argumentation tools for collaborative learning. In P. A. Kirschner, S. J. Buckingham Shum, & C. S. Carr (Eds.), Visualizing argumentation: Software tools for collaborative and educational sense-making (pp. 51-74). London : Springer-Verlag.

Kanselaar, G., Andriessen, J. E. B., Erkens, G., Jaspers, J. G. M., Prangsma, M. E., & Veerman, A. L. (2002). Co-construction of knowledge in computer supported collaborative argumentation (CSCA). In P. Kirschner (Ed.), Three worlds of CSCL: Can we support CSCL? (pp. 93-130). Heerlen , The Netherlands : Open Universiteit Nederland.

Erkens, G., Kanselaar, G., Prangsma, M. E., & Jaspers, J. G. M. (2002). Using tools and resources in computer supported collaborative writing. In G. Stahl (Ed.), Computer support for collaborative learning: Foundations for a CSCL community (pp. 389-399). Hillsdale , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

PhD dissertation

Prangsma, M. E. (2007). Multimodal representations in collaborative history learning. PhD dissertation. Utrecht University , Faculty of Social Sciences.

• PhD dissertation in Igitur archive

Research reports

Erkens, G., Prangsma, M. E., Jaspers, J. G. M., & Kanselaar, G. (2002). Computer support for collaborative and argumentative writing. Final report NWO project . Utrecht , The Netherlands: Utrecht University , Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences.

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