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Tensions and Paradoxes of Scaling Up : A Critical Reflection on Physical Activity Promotion
2022
Background: Achieving system-level, sustainable ‘scale-up’ of interventions is the epitome of successful translation of evidence-based approaches in population health. In physical activity promotion, few evidence-based interventions reach implementation at scale or become embedded within systems for sustainable health impact. This is despite the vast published literature describing efficacy studies of small-scale physical activity interventions. Research into physical activity scale-up (through case-study analysis; evaluations of scale-up processes in implementation trials; and mapping the processes, strategies, and principles for scale-up) has identified barriers and facilitato…
Explaining two forms of Internet crime from two perspectives : toward stage theories for phishing and Internet scamming
2017
The two studies in this dissertation examine two pervasive and common forms of Internet crimes from two different perspectives: (1) phishing from the victims’ perspective and (2) Internet scamming from the offenders’ perspective. For the former, previous phishing research is based on models that assume that fixed or static factors explain or predict people’s reasons for complying with phishing emails. These models assume that the reasons for complying with phishing emails are the same across individuals and across time. However, we argue that, whereas the act of clicking on a phishing email is the same across time for phishing victims, the reasons for complying are not the same. We address …
Unique Problems Require Unique Solutions—Models and Problems of Linking School Effectiveness and School Improvement
2022
The article aims to outline the proposals for linking school effectiveness research and school improvement that are currently relevant in international discussion and to ask how they deal with the ‘technology deficit’ at the level of model improvement. We will first show the difference between school improvement and school effectiveness. Then, we outline areas showing basic problems associated with linking school effectiveness and school improvement. After that, we present a summary of two relevant models for linking school effectiveness research and school improvement—Comprehensive Framework of Effective School Improvement and Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness&md…
La ricerca azione con progetto
2021
Sono svolte alcune considerazioni, di carattere metodologico, ricavate dalla riflessione su quelle ricerche empiriche, che sono state svolte negli ultimi quaranta anni nelle scuole italiane, con una doppia connotazione: la collaborazione paritaria tra un ricercatore di didattica e gli insegnanti in servizio e l’intento esplicito di migliorare alcune competenze professionali dei docenti, con il conseguente impianto di innovazioni didattiche nella scuola. E’ giustificata la procedura della ricerca azione con progetto (RAP), che cerca di contemperare l’esigenza di rigorosità della ricerca scientifica e la flessibilità imposta ai piani di ricerca dalla variabilità delle situazioni scolastiche. …
La collaborazione scuola-università nella formazione dei futuri maestri. Una ricerca svolta presso il corso di laurea magistrale in Scienze della For…
2017
La collaborazione tra la scuola e l'università nella formazione iniziale degli insegnanti di scuola primaria e dell'infanzia si esplica principalmente attraverso il tirocinio e i laboratori, dove si creano anche delle occasioni propizie per impostare e svolgere insieme delle ricerche in campo didattico. Un'attività di ricerca, promossa autonomamente dall'università, dovrebbe affiancare la sua azione formativa per verificarne periodicamente l'efficacia, ogni volta che vengono introdotte delle innovazioni significative. In questo breve intervento, si riportano i primi risultati della quarta ricerca svolta negli ultimi dodici anni sull'efficacia formativa del corso di studi in Scienze della Fo…
Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence
2017
The current study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioral measures to examine effects of genre awareness on sentence processing and evaluation. We hypothesized that genre awareness modulates effects of genre-typical manipulations. We manipulated instructions between participants, either specifying a genre (poetry) or not (neutral). Sentences contained genre-typical variations of semantic congruency (congruent/incongruent) and morpho-phonological features (archaic/contemporary inflections). Offline ratings of meaningfulness (n=64/group) showed higher average ratings for semantically incongruent sentences in the poetry vs. neutral condition. ERPs during sentence reading (n=2…
Kielentämisen näkökulmia kuudennen luokan oppilaiden matematiikan sanallisten tehtävien ratkaisuihin
2022
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan kuudennen luokan lopussa oppilaiden tuottamia ratkaisuja kahteen sanalliseen ongelmanratkaisutehtävään. Tutkimuksen toteutti matemaattiseen ajatteluun ja sen kielentämiseen perehtynyt opettaja. Tutkimukseen osallistui 35 kuudennen luokan oppilasta. Tutkimusaineistona olivat oppilaiden kirjalliset ratkaisut kahteen sanalliseen ongelmanratkaisutehtävään. Oppilaat kuvasivat kielentämisen keinoin omaa matemaattista ajatteluaan sekä tehtävien tuottamisessa että ratkaisuprossien avaamisessa. Tuloksista on nähtävissä, että oppilailla oli taitoja kielentää monipuolisesti matemaattista ajatteluaan. Matematiikan opetuksessa olisikin hyvä ohjata oppilaita ilmaisemaan matemaa…
: " Si tu veux la paix, prépare la guerre " ou " si tu veux la paix, prépare la paix " ?
2012
International audience; A la fin du IVe siècle dans son Traité de l'art militaire (De re militari), le chrétien Végèce a écrit : " qui désire la paix, se prépare donc à la guerre ". Son ouvrage, utilisé comme manuel de moralisation du guerrier par l'Eglise catholique, est encore qualifié au début du XIXe siècle par des stratèges militaires de " Livre d'or " des règles de la guerre. Mais cet adage toujours présent dans l'esprit de nos contemporains a été dénoncé en 1841 par le saint-simonien Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin qui a écrit : " si tu veux la paix, prépare la paix ". Le mouvement pacifiste qui s'est développé depuis les conflits napoléoniens peine à reprendre son souffle à la fin de la…
I paradigmi scientifici della ricerca didattica
2022
The initial positivist paradigm, derived from experimental medicine and experimental psychology, is followed by the empirical research in the didactic field, the phenomenological and the constructivist one. More recently the action research paradigm and evidence-based experimentation have been arisen. The great distinction that should be made today, as regards empirical research in the didactic field, is between the paradigms of reduction and the paradigms of complexity. The reflection on the degree of knowability of teaching practices focuses on some questions: is it pos- sible to identify similarities and coefficients between the results of research on the same theme but carried out in di…
SEA URCHIN RESEARCH: MILESTONES, MEMORIES, AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
2017
The sea urchin eggs and embryos have been used for nearly two centuries as experimental models for classical and modern developmental biology. In the late 1870s, the ground-breaking observations independently obtained by Hertwig and Fol highlighted for the first time that a single sperm enters the oocyte and the male and female pronuclei fuse at fertilization.1 From that point on, the seminal studies of Boveri, Driesch, and Herbst allowed conceptualization of basic biological themes, such as the chromosome theory of heredity.2 In the first half of the twentieth century, the embryo manipulation experiments performed by Hörstadius and Runnström further advanced the field, introducing the conc…