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AUTHOR
María José Nácher
The effectiveness of the GoKoan e-learning platform in improving university students’ academic performance
Abstract The GoKoan e-learning platform supports face-to-face training in an educational community. Its aim is to optimise the way and the time of study in order to improve academic performance. To evaluate the GoKoan platform’s effectiveness as a tool for improving academic performance, an experimental study was carried out using a sample of 171 university students enrolled in the psychology degree programme who were randomly assigned to the two different conditions (the experimental group: traditional learning + e-learning with the GoKoan platform; and the control group: traditional learning without e-learning). The findings showed that using GoKoan had a positive impact on the students’ …
REARING STYLES IN ADOLESCENCE: THEIR RELATION WITH PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
El trabajo muestra dos estudios realizados con adolescentes españoles cuyo objetivo es estudiar la relación entre los estilos de crianza, el comportamiento prosocial y la empatía, la agresividad, la inestabilidad emocional y la ira desde un doble planteamiento: en uno de los estudios (N = 531) la evaluación de los estilos de crianza la realiza la madre y en el otro (N =782), los adolescentes. Los resultados indican que cuando es la madre quien evalúa los estilos de crianza, éstos alcanzan menor poder predictor en el comportamiento prosocial. La evaluación positiva del hijo/a, el apoyo emocional junto con la coherencia en la aplicación de las normas es el estilo de crianza más relacionado po…
Three Decades of Psychological Research in the Journal Cognitive Psychology (1979–1999)
We examined the journal Cognitive Psychology, as representative of the evolution of cognitive psychology during the last three decades (1979–1999). Analysis of changes in the impact factor defined according to the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) is an indication of the ranking of this journal both in the general classification of archival research journals as well as in relation to other periodicals in the area of cognitive psychology. This single quantitative measure of articles published in Cognitive Psychology indicates a change in the topics of interest. An analysis of the research topics and identification of the most productive authors identifies important indicators of the psyc…
GoKoan: Una plataforma e-learning de apoyo al estudio en estudiantes universitarios
[EN] In this paper GoKoan is presented as an e-learning platform which supports in-person education in the university. In the present study, a total of 175 students on the "Psychology of Memory" course from the Psychology Degree of the Universitat de València participated, 88 of them were part of the control group and 87 of the experimental group. The experimental group conducted the study in two phases: 1) Learning phase: the content of the course was presented fragmented for study, with evaluations of each content until they were learned. 2) Review phase: multiple choice exams were done to review of the whole subject. The reviews were progressively grouped into blocks with a higher conten…