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Concurrent Validity and Reliability of Alternative Computer Game for the Coincidence-Anticipation Timing Task
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Crocetta, Tânia Brusque; Guarnieri, Regiani; Massetti, Thaís; da Silva, Talita Dias; de Almeida Barbosa, Renata Thaís; Ferreira de Lima Antão, Jennifer Yohanna; de Abreu, Luiz Carlos; Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira de Mello – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2019
The coincidence-anticipation timing (CAT) task assesses one facet of cognitive and motor performance and is used to understand the human visuo-motor system involved in intercepting the moving object. To assess the test-retest reliability and the concurrent validity in the "Bridge Games" package (Bridge) developed to assess the CAT task,…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Test Reliability, Validity
Developmental Changes in Cue Weighting for Voiceless Sibilants in Brazilian Portuguese
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Penido, Fabiana A.; Rothe-Neves, Rui – Language Learning and Development, 2019
An important issue regarding developmental changes in cue weighting is whether children weight the dynamic cue of vowel formant transitions relatively more than do adults, whereas adults depend more on the static cue of the fricative noise level. We investigated this issue in Brazilian Portuguese. Additionally, we inserted the segment to be…
Descriptors: Cues, Portuguese, Vowels, Pronunciation
Retrospective Analysis of Accumulated Structured Practice: A Bayesian Multilevel Analysis of Elite Brazilian Volleyball Players
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Mendes, Felipe G.; Nascimento, Juarez V.; Souza, Edison R.; Collet, Carine; Milistetd, Michel; Côté, Jean; Carvalho, Humberto M. – High Ability Studies, 2018
The patterns of cumulated structured volleyball practice and other structured sports activities of elite adult Brazilian players, considering age of specialization in volleyball and achievement of international competition representing the national team, were examined using Bayesian multilevel models. Elite volleyball players (n = 78) with an…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Team Sports, Foreign Countries, Adults
Relevance of the Mass Media in Prevention, Education and Contextual Management of COVID-19
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Reynosa Navarro, Enaidy; Guerra-Ayala, Margit Julia; Casimiro-Urcos, Walther Hernán; Vélez-Jiménez, Dolores; Casimiro-Urcos, Nora Consuelo; Salazar-Montoya, Erick Oswaldo; Casimiro-Urcos, Javier Francisco; Callejas Torres, Juan Carlos – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
The purpose of this research was to determine the relevance of the media in the prevention, education and contextual management of COVID-19. Methodology: descriptive non-experimental transectional research. An international survey validated by experts was applied, surveying 1082 people during a month. The countries with the highest participation…
Descriptors: Mass Media Role, Mass Media Effects, Information Sources, Television Viewing
Exchange of Disfluency with Age from Function to Content Words in Brazilian Portuguese Speakers Who Do and Do Not Stutter
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Juste, Fabiola Staroble; Sassi, Fernanda Chiarion; de Andrade, Claudia Regina Furquim – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the exchange of disfluencies from function words to content words with age in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter. Ninety stuttering individuals and 90 controls, native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, were divided into three age groups (children, adolescents and adults). The study…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Native Speakers, Speech, Stuttering
The Moral Choices Children Attribute to Adults and to Peers: Implications for Moral Acquisition
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Saltzstein, Herbert D.; Roazzi, Antonio; Dias, Maria da G. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
Thirty-six children (half 6-8 years old and half 10-12) in Northeast Brazil heard three hypothetical dilemmas featuring a choice between telling the truth and keeping a promise. Each dilemma was initiated by a different kind of lie: an exculpable pro-social lie (teasing), a lie in the personal domain (hiding) and a lie in the service of an…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Decision Making