The Johannes van Kessel (jvank) website is an umbrella website, which hosts a number of Chapters, each containing web pages of one or more Initiatives. The most important common characteristic of these Initiatives is that each offers low-cost services and is moderately staffed.
The Johannes van Kessel group strives for simplicity and (cost-) effectiveness. This also applies to the management style of the organization itself.
The following chapters are active:
Several courses ‘Advising on research methods’ are given by Don Mellenbergh and Herman Adèr each year at the University of Amsterdam and at IOPS (Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics), using the ARM-book as study material.
A new course at the Centre for Literacy and Numeracy Research (CLNR) of Edge Hill University will be given in september and october. It will be given by Victor van Daal and Herman Adèr.
The Research Methodology chapter holds initiatives in the field of Research Methodology for the social, behavioral and life sciences.
The first initiative of this chapter has been to make accessible the material of several conferences on or related to research methodology:
Printed proceedings of this colloquium became available november 2008. The proceedings are sold out, but an eBook of the Proceedings became available February 2014. See: the KNAW Proceedings website.
This chapter was started as a publishing house on the occasion of the publication of the ‘ARM’ book in March 2008. Since then, a considerable number of titles have been added. At the moment of writing (June 2013), the Publication list contains 5 English titles and 8 titles in Dutch. Most titles are also provided as eBook. Since March 2014, the Publishing chapter has its own website, in which the titles below are all included.
Advising on research methods: A consultant’s companion by Herman J. Adèr, Gideon J. Mellenbergh (with contributions by David J. Hand), sewed hardcover: ISBN 978-90-79418-09-1.
January 2011, the third imprint of the book became available. All other editions are now sold out. In the Netherlands and Belgium, the book is available via the regular bookseller. In other countries, it can be ordered via the order form on the book’s website:
Advising on research methods: Proceedings of the 2007 KNAW
Colloquium.
H. J. Adèr & G.J. Mellenbergh (Eds.)
(ISBN 978-90-79418-03-9)
The reader contains a collection of newly written articles based on presentations held at the KNAW 2007 Colloquium Advising on research methods. It contains contributions by Janice Derr, Hilde Tobi, Gerald van Belle, Victor van Daal, Robert Pool, Jules Ellis, Bo Lu, Marijtje van Duijn and Herman Adèr on a variety of topics, all related to statistical/methodological consulting.
The book was distributed freely among participants of the Colloquium and the Masterclass. The book has now sold out. An eBook version became available February, 2014. See the Proceedings website.
Advising on research methods: Selected topics 2011.
H. J. Adèr & G.J. Mellenbergh (Eds.)
For more information (including ordering information) see: Selected topics 2011. The paperback edition is sold out. However, it is now available as an eBook: See the website.
Advising on research methods: Selected topics 2012.
H. J. Adèr & G.J. Mellenbergh (Eds.)
For more information see: Selected topics 2012. An eBook version is also available.
Advising on research methods: Selected topics 2013.
H. J. Adèr & G.J. Mellenbergh (Eds.)
See: Selected topics 2013.
When the 2013 booklet is translated into ePub, it will be added to the bundle.
De vader en Michiel en andere oude verhalen
For more information, see the website:
De vader en Michiel This booklet is sold out. However, it is still available as an
eBook.
Een verschrikkelijke liefde
For more information, see:
Een verschrikkelijke liefde Again, this booklet is sold out, but is still available as an
eBook.
Since we aim to offer all books of the Publishing chapter also as eBooks, we have gained considerable expertise in LATEX to ePub conversion, in particular of scientific texts. In september of this year, we started an Ebook conversion chapter. It is headed by Jeroen Arian with the help of Herman Adèr. For the moment, the conversion service is aimed at the Dutch market (See: eBook conversion website).
Since the start of the Johannes van Kessel Group, the Advising chapter has been very successful. We offer advice and do the data analysis for a number of projects, some of which on a regular basis. For the moment, this is mainly the work of Herman Adèr but several students have collaborated: Marianne Hubregtse and Philp Schuette, both students who attended one of the ARM courses. Several short-term projects have been finalized in 2011. The work on the following two projects ended at the end of 2012.
The PIRLS Norwegian 2011 data has also been analyzed by us. This time, data were combined with the TIMSS (Trends in international Mathematics and Science Study) data. See the Combined TIMSS/PIRLS website.
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