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Margje van de Wiel

Assistant professor (UD)

Universiteit Maastricht
Faculty of Psychology
Department of Neurocognition
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands

For visitors:
Universiteitssingel 5 room 2.002
6229 ES Maastricht

+31-43-3882171
+31-43-3884211
m.vandewiel@maastrichtuniversity.nl

• 1998 – present: assistant professor (UD), Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University; incidental work as consultant on problem-based learning, workplace learning and expertise development

• 1996 – 1998: post-doc researcher, Skillslab, Faculty of Medicine, Maastricht University

• 1991 – 1995: Ph.D. researcher, Department of Educational Development and Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maastricht University; Ph.D. in 1997, title of dissertation: Knowledge encapsulation: Studies on the development of medical expertise

• 1985 – 1990: MA in Psychology, Major in Experimental Psychology, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), Radboud University Nijmegen

Research areas

As a cognitive psychologist Margje van de Wiel focuses in research on professional learning, professional decision making, expertise development, and knowledge sharing. She is currently involved in several research projects:

• Deliberate practice in medicine on physicians’ and residents’ learning in the workplace

• Shared mental models in medicine on the cooperation of medical professionals with different roles and expertise

• Gut feelings in general practice on the role of intuitive processes in diagnostic reasoning of family physicians

• Medical education on the learning processes of medical students and the effects of educational interventions

• Feedback processes in the workplace on the relationships between individual and workplace characteristics, feedback seeking behavior and performance

• Self-directed learning in vocational education on the learning activities of students in authentic learning environments

Dissertation

She currently coordinates a course on Learning in the 3^rd year bachelor of Cognitive Psychology (for a description of the course see the bachelor’s programme at page 23,   ) and a course on Human Resources in the Master of Work and Organizational Psychology. She supervises bachelor, master and Ph.D. theses related to the topics of her research. She has experience with problem-based learning in different formats and different faculties at Maastricht University and advocates this way of education when it is well implemented.

Publications (selection)

• Stolper, E., Van Bokhoven, M., Houben, P., Van Royen, P., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Van der Weijden, T., & Dinant, G. J. (2009). The diagnostic role of gut feelings in general practice. A focus group study of the concept and its determinants. BMC Family Practice, 10:17.

• Bude, L., Imbos, Tj., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., & Berger, M. P. F. (2009). The effect of directive tutor guidance in problem-based learning of statistics on students' perceptions and achievement. Higher Education, 57, 23-36.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Boshuizen, H. P. A., Meeuwesen, E., & Reinout W. Wiers, R. W. (2009). Expertise effects on immediate, deliberate and unconscious thought in complex decision making. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 733-738). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Kools, M., Ruiter, R. A. C., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., & Kok, G. J. (2007). Testing the usability of access structures in a health education brochure. Britisch Journal of Health Psychology, 12, 525-541.

• Kools, M., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Ruiter, R. A. C., Crűts, A., & Kok, G (2006). The effect of graphic organizers on subjective and objective comprehension of a health education text. Health Education & Behavior, 33, 760-772.   

• Kools, M., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Ruiter, R. A. C., & Kok, G (2006). Pictures and text in instructions for medical devices: Effects on recall and actual performance. Patient Education & Counseling, 64, 104-111.

• De Bruin, A. B. H., Van de Wiel, M. W. J.,. Rikers, R. M. J. P, & Schmidt, H. G. (2005). Examining the stability of experts’ clinical case processing: An experimental manipulation. Instructional Science, 33, 251-270.

• Kools, M., Ruiter, R. A. C., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., & Kok, G. J. (2004). Increasing readers' comprehension of health education brochures: A qualitative study into how professional writers make texts coherent. Health Education and Behavior, 31(6), 720-740.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J.,  Szegedi, K. H. P., & Weggeman, M. C. D. P. (2004). Professional learning: Deliberate attempts at developing expertise. In: H. P. A. Boshuizen, R. Bromme, H. Gruber (Eds.) Professional Learning: Gaps and transitions on the way from novice to expert (pp. 181-206).  Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Boshuizen, H. P. A., & Schmidt, H. G. (2000). Knowledge restructuring in expertise development: Evidence from pathophysiological representations of clinical cases by students and physicians. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 12(3), 323-355.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Boshuizen, H. P. A., Schmidt, H. G. & Schaper, N. C. (1999). The explanation of medical concepts by expert physicians, clerks and advanced students. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 11(3), 153-163.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Schaper, N. C., Scherpbier, A. J. J. A., Van der Vleuten, C. P. M., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (1999). Students' experiences with real patient tutorials in a problem-based curriculum. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 11(1), 12-20.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J., & Schmidt, H. G., Boshuizen, H. P. A. (1998). A failure to reproduce the intermediate effect in clinical case recall. Academic Medicine, 73(8), 894-900.

Papers presented at conferences and workshops (recent selection)

• Hanssen, C., Van de Wiel, M., Zijlstra, F., & Koopmans, R. (2009). Shared mental models in medicine: Cooperation of specialists with different expertise and roles. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, Pisa, Italy, September 23-26, 2009.

• Jossberger, H., Brand-Gruwel, S., Boshuizen, H., & Van de Wiel, M. (2009). Pre-vocational secondary education: The benefits of self-direction in workplace simulations. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Leaning and Instruction. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29, 2009.

• Van der Rijt, J., Gijselaers, W., Segers, M., Van den Bossche, P., Wiel, M. van de (2009). A Relational View of Feedback Seeking in the Workplace. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Leaning and Instruction. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29, 2009.

• Van de Wiel, Van den Bossche, P., de Graaf, J., & Koopmans, R. (2009). Deliberate practice in medicine: The role of experience, learning attitudes, and learning behavior in expertise development of residents. Paper presented at the 14th European Conference of Work and Organizational Psychology, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, May 14-16, 2009.

• Jossberger, H., Brand-Gruwel, S., Boshuizen, H., & Van de Wiel, M. (2008). From theory to practice: Success- and failure factors in pre-vocational secondary education. Paper presented at the 4th EARLI Learning and Professional Development SIG Conference, 27-29th August, 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Van de Wiel, M. (2008). Shared mental models: Cooperation of specialists with different expertise and roles in medicine. Presentation at the symposium on Shared Mental Models, October 1-3, Maastricht University.

• Van de Wiel, M., Philippens, J., Van den Bossche, P., & Koopmans (August 2008). Deliberate practice in medicine: The effects on expertise development of residents’ activities and attitudes in workplace learning. Paper presented at the 4th EARLI Learning and Professional Development SIG Conference, 27-29th August, 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Van de Wiel, M., & Van den Bossche, P., (2008). Deliberate practice in medicine: Activities and attitudes at the workplace and their relation to expertise. Presented at the (inivited) Symposium ‘Advances in Medical Expertise and Other Knowledge Intensive Working Environments’, 4th June – 6th June at the Centre for Learning Research, University of Turku, Finland.

• Van de Wiel, Van den Bossche, P., M. W. J., Jossberger, H., Bemelmans, Ch., Jansen, S. & Gijselaers, W. (2007). Deliberate practice in medicine: Relating goal orientations, learning activities and expertise. Paper to be presented at the XIIIth European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 9-12, 2007.

• Jansen, S. Jossberger, H., Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Van den Bossche, P., & Gijselaers, W. (2006). Deliberate practice in medicine: What work-related activities contribute to professional development? Paper presented at the Paper presented at the 3rd Conference of EARLI SIG 14 Learning and Professional Development, Heerlen, the Netherlands, October 11-13, 2006.

• Van de Wiel, M. W. J., Jansen, S. Jossberger, H., Van den Bossche, P., & Gijselaers, W. (2006). Deliberate practice in medicine: Relating goal orientations, learning activities and expertise. Paper presented at the Paper presented at the 3rd Conference of EARLI SIG 14 Learning and Professional Development, Heerlen, the Netherlands, October 11-13, 2006.