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Ayala-Altamirano, Cristina; Molina, Marta – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
This article describes part of the findings of a teaching experiment whose objective is to investigate the algebraic abilities of elementary students when they solve situations that involve a functional relationship. In particular, we focus on describing the use and meanings attributed to letters by third-year primary school students when faced…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Elementary School Students, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Caruso, Marcelo – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Age-classes are a salient feature of modern schooling. Yet how did age-grouping come to prevail in entire school systems? And how was this form of grouping related to educational and pedagogic discussions at the time of its emergence? The article addresses these issues by looking at the historical context within which age classes came to a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary School Students, School Administration, Classification
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Lage-Gómez, Carlos; Ros, Germán – Gifted Education International, 2023
The study analyses the relationship between transdisciplinary integration, creativity and student motivation in three STEAM projects. It has been carried out over 3 years in a programme for gifted students. 152 students (11-12 years old), five teachers and four external professionals participated. The projects included a variety of scientific,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Gifted, Gifted Education, STEM Education
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Carvalho, Lucila; Castañeda, Linda; Yeoman, Pippa – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2023
The circumstances in which humans live and learn are subject to constant change. Given these cycles of change, educational designers (teachers, instructional designers, and others) often search for new models and frameworks to support their work, to ensure their designs are in alignment with valued forms of learning activity. Our research…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Design
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Sierra-Díaz, Manuel Jacob; González-Víllora, Sixto; Fernandez-Rio, Javier – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: The goal was twofold: (a) to analyze the evolution of sportspersonship attitudes and negative values along a learning unit using the contextualized sport alphabetization model and (b) to determine the associations between sportspersonship and self-determined motivation. Method: The study followed a preexperimental, cross-sectional design…
Descriptors: Ethics, Physical Education, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Jiménez, Isabel; Amat, Arnau; Codony, Lídia – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study examines the development of the concept of the ecological niche among 10-11-year-old students and their ability to use this concept to give their opinions on the socially relevant and controversial possibility that wolf populations might be established in the mountains surrounding the school. A total of 21 elementary school students…
Descriptors: Animals, Biology, Science Instruction, Wildlife
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Monferrer, Lidón; Lorenzo-Valentín, Gil; Santágueda-Villanueva, María – Education Sciences, 2022
The much-needed interest in promoting a healthy lifestyle among school-age students has found a context for development: school gardens. There are numerous studies where using gardens as a teaching-learning context also improves students' performance in the experimental sciences. In this study, we proposed another interest that sets it apart and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Health Promotion, Science Education, Mathematics Education
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Lorenzo-Lledó, Alejandro; Lledó, Asunción; Lorenzo, Gonzalo; Gilabert-Cerdá, Alba – Education Sciences, 2022
Nowadays, audiovisual media play a central role in access to information and in personal relationships. Among the audiovisual media is cinema, which due to its heterogeneous nature, can fulfill diverse educational functions. The objective of this study was to learn about the training that future teachers in Spain receive outside of their teaching…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Films, Teacher Education Programs, Informal Education
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Prado, Borja Gómez; Puig, Blanca; Evagorou, María – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
This paper addresses an explorative case study on Spanish primary pre-service teachers' (PSTs) emotions about, and their interest in, insects. The study is part of a teachers' training programme on insects and the problem of the decline in pollinators conducted at the University of Santiago de Compostela, using scientific practice-based learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Correlation, Case Studies
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Rodriguez, Nuria; Acha, Joana – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study presents the results of a cross-sectional reading and spelling assessment conducted among 118 Spanish children in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. The first aim was to explore whether children's use of orthographic knowledge was modulated by lexical variables--word frequency and orthographic neighborhood--or sublexical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Ion, Georgeta; Sirvent, Ernest López – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2022
The article analyses the characteristics of schools according to the perception teachers have regarding their commitment to using research evidence within their practice. A questionnaire focused on issues such as the use of research evidence to improve schools, as well as factors known to influence this practice, such as organizational culture,…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Improvement
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Rodríguez-Negro, Josune; Yanci, Javier – Educational Psychology, 2022
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of two different physical education intervention programmes on cognitive functions (i.e. creativity, attention and impulse control) in primary education students. These dimensions were measured in 168 children (8-12 years) before and after two 8-week intervention programmes with different…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Models, Cognitive Ability
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Moreno-Crespo, Pilar; Moreno-Fernández, Olga; Pedrero-García, Encarnación – Online Submission, 2022
Objective: To describe whether there are stereotypes towards older adults by the group of teachers in initial training. Method: The approach was quantitative and not probabilistic through a statistical study with university students preparing to become primary school teachers in the Spanish education system. This training profile includes adult…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Social Bias, Older Adults, Preservice Teachers
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Fernández-León, Aurora; Gavilán-Izquierdo, José María; Toscano, Rocío – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2021
This paper studies how four primary-school in-service teachers develop the mathematical practices of conjecturing and proving. From the consideration of professional development as the legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice, these teachers' mathematical practices have been characterised by using a theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematical Logic, Validity, Professional Development
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López, Paula; Torrance, Mark; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Fidalgo, Raquel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study aimed to establish (a) whether teaching students revision skills provides benefit over and above teaching strategies for setting explicit goals for the communicative effect of their text, and (b) whether teaching students to adopt specific revision strategies provides benefits over revision instruction that focusses on increasing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Revision (Written Composition), Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness
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