The professional nature and professionalisation of the street-level delivery of activation policies have received increasing attention in academic debate. The study reported in this article contributes to this debate in two ways. The first way is to elaborate a multidimensional conceptualisation of practising professionalism in activation work, distinguishing eight dimensions: knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, knowledge use, innovation, accountability, client-centred practice, collaboration and methodical work. The second way is to have developed and test a questionnaire for studying professional practice in activation work. Two models were compared in the study. The first model hypothesised that professional practice is a construct capturing all eight dimensions. The second model hypothesised that the eight dimensions reflect a knowledge-oriented and a service-oriented aspect of professional practice. The models were tested using data from a survey among Dutch activation workers. Both provided acceptable fits with our data. What model researchers consider most appropriate will depend on the focus of their research.

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在激活工作中实践专业精神：开发和测试问卷

街道层面激活政策的专业性和专业化在学术辩论中受到越来越多的关注。本文报道的研究以两种方式促成了这场辩论。第一种方法是详细阐述激活工作中实践专业精神的多维概念化，区分八个维度：知识获取、知识共享、知识使用、创新、问责制、以客户为中心的实践、协作和有条不紊的工作。第二种方法是制定并测试一份问卷，用于研究激活工作中的专业实践。研究中比较了两种模型。第一个模型假设专业实践是一个涵盖所有八个维度的结构。第二个模型假设八个维度反映了专业实践的知识导向和服务导向方面。这些模型使用来自荷兰激活工人的调查数据进行了测试。两者都与我们的数据提供了可接受的拟合。研究人员认为最合适的模型将取决于他们的研究重点。