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Sierra, Lina; Martin, Piedad – Online Submission, 2012
The European intTT project "An Integral Teacher Training for Developing Digital and Communicative Competences and Subject Content Learning at Schools" deals with initial teacher training in primary and secondary School. The general objective of the project is to train future school teachers in order to improve the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, International Education
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Frossard, Frederique; Barajas, Mario; Trifonova, Anna – Digital Education Review, 2012
This study presents an innovative pedagogical approach where teachers become game designers and engage in creative teaching practices. Within co-design training workshops, 21 Spanish primary and secondary school teachers have developed their own Game-Based Learning (GBL) scenarios, especially tailored to their teaching contexts and students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Secondary School Teachers, Creative Teaching
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Sanz de Acedo Lizarraga, Maria Luisa; Sanz de Acedo Baquedano, Maria Teresa; Oliver, Maria Soria – School Psychology International, 2010
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the instruction method "Thinking Actively in an Academic Context" (TAAC) in the thinking skills of 6th grade students in primary education. The sample consisted of 58 subjects, aged between 11- and 13-years-of-age, 27 in the experimental group and 31 in the control group. A pre-test…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Jimenez, Juan E.; Siegel, Linda; O'Shanahan, Isabel; Ford, Laurie – Educational Psychology, 2009
The purpose of the present study was to explore the relative roles of IQ and cognitive processes in reading performance. A sample of 443 Spanish children (264 male, 179 female) ranging in age from 7 to 13 years were classified into four groups according to IQ scores (less than 80, 80-90, 90-110, greater than 110) and reading disabled (RD) and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Processes, Role
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Fernandez, Ricardo Lopez; Garcia, Ana B. Sanchez – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
The study of errors made in subtraction is a research subject approached from different theoretical premises that affect different components of the algorithmic process as triggers of their generation. In the following research an attempt has been made to investigate the typology and nature of errors which occur in subtractions and their evolution…
Descriptors: Subtraction, Error Patterns, Mathematical Models, Incidence
Tatto, Maria Teresa; Ingvarson, Lawrence; Schwille, John; Peck, Ray; Senk, Sharon L.; Rowley, Glenn – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2008
Over the last 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has conducted more than 23 large-scale comparative studies of student achievement. The work associated with teacher preparation as well as experience gained in many of IEA's studies, such as TIMSS, led to a request from members of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Clemente, Maria; Ramirez, Elena – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The study we carried out deals with how teachers express their practical knowledge. The main objective was to classify how it is expressed, so that we can see its components, its limits, and how close it is to theoretical knowledge, understanding as such that which is based on research and aimed at explaining phenomena by looking for regular…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Joglar, Nuria; Martin, Diego; Colmenar, J. Manuel; Martinez, Ivan; Hidalgo, J. Ignacio – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to describe the activities designed and conducted with primary school, secondary school and university students to study the integration of alternative assessment and self-assessment online tools in mathematics courses using iTest. iTest is an educational software tool born to support the continuous evaluation system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Assessment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Barrantes, Manuel; Blanco, Lorenzo J. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2006
There are two basic guiding referents in the present investigation: the teaching and learning of school-level geometry (basic concepts of Euclidian geometry and measure) and the analysis of the conceptions of prospective primary teachers in Spain. The work assumes that such conceptions appear and develop during school years, and that consequently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers
Elsner, Daniela – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes the theoretical framework and the main objectives of the European Comenius project MuViT -- Multiliteracy Virtual. The project engages primary pupils across the world in multilingual and audiovisual reading and writing processes through the use of information technology resources to enhance multi-literacies, plurilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Writing Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Dekhinet, Rayenne; Topping, Keith; Duran, David; Blanch, Silvia – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2008
Rayenne Dekhinet, Keith Topping, David Duran, and Silvia Blanch describe a pilot project on the use of Internet-assisted reciprocal peer tutoring in foreign-language learning. The eight-week project connected Spanish-speaking English-language learners at a primary school in Catalonia with English-speaking Spanish-language learners at a Scottish…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Second Language Learning, Internet, Peer Teaching
Andrews, Paul; Sayers, Judy – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2008
Research, from all around the world, has shown that teachers' actions are informed by a variety of factors, including long-held and frequently unarticulated traditions about teaching and learning, systemic expectations of the processes of schooling, available textbooks, traditions of teacher education, school cultures, assessment traditions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Harkness, Sara; Blom, Marjolijn; Oliva, Alfredo; Moscardino, Ughetta; Zylicz, Piotr Olaf; Bermudez, Moises Rios; Feng, Xin; Carrasco-Zylicz, Agnieszka; Axia, Giovanna; Super, Charles M. – Comparative Education, 2007
This paper explores teachers' ethnotheories of the "ideal student" in five western societies: Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the US. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to derive culture-specific profiles of the "ideal student" as described by kindergarten and primary school teachers in semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Profiles, Discriminant Analysis
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Cots, Josep M.; Nussbaum, Luci – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
The growing presence of children of immigrant families in the public school system in the bilingual region of Catalonia provides us with an opportunity to study how young multilingual and multicultural speakers construct their social competencies and their identity within the specific context of a gate-keeping social institution such as the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants, English (Second Language)
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
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