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Moreno, David Sanchez-Mora; Lopez, Luis Miguel Garcia; Diaz, Maria Sagrario Del Valle; Martinez, Inmaculada Solera – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Games represent a very important part of the physical education curriculum and the process by which they are learnt is very complex. Constructive teaching theories highlight the existence of knowledge prior to instruction that the pupil actively transforms through verbalisation and interaction with classmates. The results of research…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Correlation, Physical Education, Play
Flecha, Ramón; Soler, Marta – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2013
Schools and communities may have a key role in reversing the cycle of inequality that the Roma suffer in Europe. Aiming at reducing existing inequalities, dialogic learning aims to ensure high levels of academic learning for all children, by involving the whole community through egalitarian dialogue. Less well known are the implications of this…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Family School Relationship, Equal Education, Social Bias
Valverde, Gabriela; Castro, Encarnación – PNA, 2012
We present the findings of a study on prospective elementary teachers' proportional reasoning. After describing some of the teachers' performance in solving multiplicative structure problems that involve ratios and relations of direct proportionality between quantities, we were able to establish classifications of their answers according to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Thinking Skills, Performance Based Assessment, Multiplication
Llauradó, Anna; Tolchinsky, Liliana – First Language, 2013
Lexical development is a key facet of later language development. To characterize the linguistic knowledge of school age children, performance in the written modality must also be considered. This study tracks the growth of written text-embedded lexicon in Catalan-speaking children and adolescents. Participants (N = 2161), aged from 5 to 16 years…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Romance Languages, Native Language, Computational Linguistics
Ingvarson, Lawrence; Schwille, John; Tatto, Maria Teresa; Rowley, Glenn; Peck, Ray; Senk, Sharon L. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
The Teacher Education and Development Study (TEDS-M) is the first crossnational study to examine the mathematics preparation of future teachers for both primary and secondary school levels. The study, conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), collected data from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Meneses, Julio; Fabregues, Sergi; Rodriguez-Gomez, David; Ion, Georgeta – Computers & Education, 2012
In recent years there has been widespread interest in the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools. While most studies primarily focus on the use of ICT in teaching and learning, little attention has been given to their incorporation as a professional tool outside the classroom. Using a digital inequality…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Internet
Iglesias-Sarmiento, Valentin; Deano, Manuel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
This investigation analyzed the relation between cognitive functioning and mathematical achievement in 114 students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Differences in cognitive performance were studied concurrently in three selected achievement groups: mathematical learning disability group (MLD), low achieving group (LA), and typically achieving…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students
Fox, Claire L.; Hale, Rebecca; Gadd, David – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
This paper reports on findings derived as part of a two-year project funded by the European Union's Daphne III scheme, involving collaboration between seven partner organisations across six European countries. The project involved an evaluation, using questionnaires and focus groups, of domestic abuse prevention education programmes delivered in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Family Violence, Agency Cooperation, Questionnaires
Tolchinsky, Liliana; Bigas, Montserrat; Barragan, Catalina – Research Papers in Education, 2012
Children's success in learning to read in the first grade is crucial for their ultimate success in schooling. This study aimed at identifying self-declared practices in preschool and first grade in Spain and contrasting these practices with the official recommendations for the initial teaching of reading and writing. A characterisation of the ways…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals), Multivariate Analysis
Pons, Oriol; Oliva, Josep-Manuel; Maas, Sandra-Ruth – Improving Schools, 2010
Since 2000 hundreds of school centers have been constructed in Catalonia using industrialized technologies. These centers are modern, useful, educational edifices built using advantageous prefabricated technologies that improve the building process and reduce the environmental impact of the building. This article analyses whether these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prefabrication, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings
Herrera Torres, Lucía; Bravo Antonio, Iván – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2012
Coexistence at school stands out as one of the main goals in today's education (Carretero, 2008; Ortega, 2007). The aim of this study developed within a cultural diversity context is to identify the specific dimensions of social skills through which the different elements favouring or hindering coexistence at school can be predicted. A total of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Child Behavior
Ruiz-Olivares, Rosario; Pino, M. Jose; Herruzo, Javier – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
Disruptive behavior can waste a great deal of teaching time in the classroom, leading to feelings of frustration in teachers and an increase in academic failure among pupils. Prior research indicates that intervening in these kinds of behaviors improves the classroom atmosphere and facilitates the learning process. With this in mind, the aims of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Dooly, Melinda – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
The use of computer-supported collaborative learning is more and more commonplace in language learning classrooms; this has given rise to the need for more research on roles and processes of telecollaboration in language teaching and learning and how online interactions are integrated with face-to-face classroom activities. Using a data-driven,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Conde, Maria del Carmen; Sanchez, J. Samuel – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2010
Thirteen primary and pre-primary schools in Extremadura (Spain) were participants in an educational research project, "Ecocentros", based on school environmental audits (eco-audits). To understand the contribution these experiences can make to achieving the objectives of environmental education, it is essential to know what is actually…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Jambrina, Carmen Urones; Vacas, Jose Manuel; Sanchez-Barbudo, Miguel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: This article explores the scientific ideas and alternative conceptions that pre-service teachers have regarding animal classification and spiders in particular. Method: The study involved 40 pre-service teachers of elementary education in Spain and the data was collected by means of questionnaires, descriptions and drawings. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions