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Blueprint for a minimal photoautotrophic cell: conserved and variable genes in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942.
2011
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The GraphoGame Method: The Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment for Learning to Read
2014
This paper provides an overview of the GraphoGame method. Both theoretical and methodological aspects related to the method are presented. The method’s guiding principles are based on the prevailing theories and experimental research findings on learning and teaching basic reading skills in alphabetic languages, especially from the point of view of a struggling reader. Because the nature of the target language and its relation to its writing system play central roles in the GraphoGame method, this approach requires the method to be flexible in order to be valid for learners of different languages and orthographies. Thus, the aim of the developed technology is to provide an appropriate readi…
Embedding Preschool Assessment Methods into Digital Learning Games to Predict Early Reading Skills
2017
The aim of this pilot study was to explore the predictive accuracy of computer-based assessment tasks (embedded within the GraphoLearn digital learning game platform) in identifying slow and normal readers. The results were compared to those obtained from the traditional paper-and-pencil tasks currently used to assess school readiness in Finland. The data were derived from a cohort of preschool-age children (mean age 6.7 years, N = 57) from a town in central Finland. A year later, at the end of first grade, participants were categorized as either slow (n = 11) or normal readers (n = 46) based on their reading scores. Logistic regression analyses indicated that computer tasks were as efficie…
Is School a Better Environment Than Home for Digital Game-Based Learning? The Case of GraphoGame
2015
This study investigated how the use of an online reading game differs in home and school environments. First and second graders (N = 194) participated in an 8-week training during which they used the reading program GraphoGame either at home or at school under the supervision of parents or teachers. Child participants were recommended by parents and teachers recruited from the list of GraphoGame users, and adults decided whether the training took place at home or at school. We measured the frequency and duration of playing, children’s engagement, development of reading skill and reading interest, and adult supportive involvement. The results revealed that children who played GraphoGame at s…
Situazioni didattiche per pensare e ripensare criticamente la conoscenza
2022
Un obiettivo fondamentale da considerare a scuola come all’università è l’esercizio della capacità critica. Le abilità di pensiero critico sono sempre più necessarie per insegnare ai giovani a comprendere, a pensare meglio usando strategie di controllo ed autoanalisi della conoscenza. Il pensiero critico è importante nei contesti sociali e interpersonali in cui devono essere assunte scelte adeguate, autonome e indipendenti. Leggere e scrivere sono strumenti che aiutano gli studenti a ripensare e chiarire, discernere e valutare, interpretare significati in rapido cambiamento. Dopo una breve rassegna di studi, sono approfonditi gli obiettivi e le azioni per potenziare il pensiero critico negl…
Análisis pedagógico del contenido del aprendizaje lector (inicial) a través de los terminos de los libros de texto
1986
Realizar un análisis de los términos utilizados en los libros de lectura en unas coordenadas espacio-temporales específicas, para observar su evolución y la incidencia de criterios pedagógicos, ideológicos, etc., en su elaboración. Compuesta de 67 libros, cartillas y métodos de lectura inicial, pertenecientes al período 1936-1984. La investigación, basada en el análisis de los términos utilizados y en su categorización, trata de contextualizar los diversos documentos de lectura, utilizando para ello, las siguientes variables-criterio: período de la Guerra Civil, 1936-1939, período de la Dictadura franquista autárquica 1939-1956, período de la Dictadura franquista tecnocrática 1957-1975 y pe…
NARRATIVE PRACTICES AND EMERGENT LITERACY: A LABORATORY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
2015
Teachers begin activities on the written language already in the years when the children attend the kindergarten, in advance of planned systematic intervention in the first year of primary school. Study of the construction of the written language has highlighted how children want to penetrate the secrets that lie behind the written words and master the operating techniques. The first linguistic, symbolic and pragmatic experiences of a child play a decisive role in the following learning of reading and writing skills, influencing significantly the first textual competences and the motivation to the written code, the rate at which children learn the code and use it in the proper way. Research…
The outcomes of national literacy programs on basic reading skills in familiar language among Zambian early graders
2016
In Zambia the Ministry of General Education implemented two national literacy programs in order to improve low levels of reading; the Primary Reading Program (PRP) implemented from 1999 to 2014 and the Primary Literacy Program (PLP) piloted in some schools in 2014 before being scaled up. This research examines the acquisition of basic reading skills among learners in familiar languages at the end of grade 2 in the two national literacy programs. I examined assessment results separately for each program and compared the two with each other. Outcomes were observed on the basis of the Early Grade Reading assessment test battery given to random samples of children (n=393) in 40 schools from 4 d…
Leisure Reading (But Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other : A Longitudinal Study Across Grades 1 and 9
2020
This study examines associations between leisure reading and reading skills in data of 2,525 students followed from age 7 to 16. As a step further from traditional cross‐lagged analysis, a random intercept cross‐lagged panel model was used to identify within‐person associations of leisure reading (books, magazines, newspapers, and digital reading), reading fluency, and reading comprehension. In Grades 1–3 poorer comprehension and fluency predicted less leisure reading. In later grades more frequent leisure reading, particularly of books, predicted better reading comprehension. Negative associations were found between digital reading and reading skills. The findings specify earlier findings …