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Adriaan Hofman

Researcher at University of Groningen

Publications -  24
Citations -  1672

Adriaan Hofman is an academic researcher from University of Groningen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Higher education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1427 citations.

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GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

Cornelius A. Rietveld, +230 more
- 21 Jun 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a genome-wide association study of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490 individuals, and three independent SNPs are genome wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266).
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Self-efficacy, job satisfaction, motivation and commitment: exploring the relationships between indicators of teachers' professional identity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how relevant indicators of teachers' sense of their professional identity (job satisfaction, occupational commitment, selfefficacy and change in level of motivation) are related.
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Profiling teachers' sense of professional identity

TL;DR: In this paper, three distinct professional identity profiles have empirically been identified, based on data of 1214 teachers working in secondary education in the Netherlands, and these profiles differed significantly regarding the indicators of teachers' professional identity.
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The effect of the fit between secondary and university education on first‐year student achievement

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on four fit-aspects: appropriateness of expectations, and the degree to which there is a continuance with respect to teaching approaches, knowledge and workload.
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The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? Results in ~25,000 subjects.

Wouter J. Peyrot, +324 more
- 26 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: An association of lower EA and MDD risk is confirmed, but this association was not because of measurable pleiotropic genetic effects, which suggests that environmental factors could be involved, for example, socioeconomic status.