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Vázquez, Juan Antonio Valdivia; Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad; Gónzalez, Jaime Ricardo Valenzuela – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Understanding factors promoting or preventing participants' completion of a massive open online course (MOOC) is an important research topic, as attrition rates remain high for this environment. Motivation and digital skills have been identified as aspects promoting student engagement in a MOOC, and they are considered necessary for success.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Energy Conservation, Sustainability
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Porta, María Elsa; Ramirez, Gloria – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examined the impact of two different interventions: Phonological Awareness PA-only versus PA, vocabulary, and Morphological Awareness (MA) on Spanish-speaking kindergarteners' language and literacy skills. We took measures on PA, vocabulary, letter-name and sound knowledge, and MA. Children in the comprehensive intervention condition…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Vocabulary Development, Phonological Awareness, Morphology (Languages)
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Alborch, Alejandra; Pandiella, Susana; Benegas, Julio – Physics Education, 2017
A group comparison experiment of two high school classes with pre and post instruction testing has been carried out to study the suitability and advantages of using the active learning of optics and photonics (ALOP) curricula in high schools of developing countries. Two parallel, mixed gender, 12th grade classes of a high school run by the local…
Descriptors: Optics, Active Learning, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science
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Benotti, Luciana; Martinez, Maria Cecilia; Schapachnik, Fernando – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
In this paper we present a software platform called Chatbot designed to introduce high school students to Computer Science (CS) concepts in an innovative way: by programming chatbots. A chatbot is a bot that can be programmed to have a conversation with a human or robotic partner in some natural language such as English or Spanish. While…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Introductory Courses, Computer Science, High School Students
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Di Mauro, María Florencia; Furman, Melina – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This paper concerns the identification of teaching strategies that enhance the development of 4th grade students' experimental design skills at a public primary school in Argentina. Students' performance in the design of relevant experiments was evaluated before and after an eight-week intervention compared to a control group, as well as the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Science Education, Elementary School Science
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Moreno-León, Jesús; Robles, Gregorio; Román-González, Marcos – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
The introduction of computer programming in K-12 has become mainstream in the last years, as countries around the world are making coding part of their curriculum. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical studies that investigate how learning to program at an early age affects other school subjects. In this regard, this paper compares three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses