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Children’s Literature and Literary Competence Development: a Didactic Proposal Using the Picture Book Amazing Grace in Primary Education
2016
Este artículo pretende poner de manifiesto cómo nosotros, como profesores, guiamos a nuestros alumnos en los procesos de construcción de significado utilizando libros ilustrados porque son motivadores y ayudan a nuestros alumnos a lograr un aprendizaje significativo mientras disfrutan del lenguaje, los contenidos y la literatura en la clase de inglés. Presentamos el libro ilustrado Amazing Grace, escrito por Mary Hoffman e ilustrado por Caroline Binch, a nuestros alumnos de Primaria en la clase de inglés. Además, presentamos -con el fin de ayudar a nuestros alumnos a mejorar sus cinco destrezas de lectoescritura (leer, escribir, escuchar, hablar y pensar) al mismo tiempo que desarrollan su …
Teacher–child relationships and social competence: A two-year longitudinal study of Chinese preschoolers
2012
Abstract Based on a two-year and three-wave longitudinal sample of 118 Chinese preschoolers, the present study examined the cross-lagged associations between teacher–child relationships and social competence, and the cross-system generalization of social competence between home and school. At each of the three waves, teachers rated the children's teacher–child relationships and social competence in school, and mothers rated the children's social competence at home. The results showed that high closeness and low conflict in teacher–child relationships at three months after preschool entry (T1) predicted children's social competence in school at the end of the first preschool year (T2). T1 te…
Knowledge management effectiveness factors: the role of HRM
2005
PurposeWithin the search of the key factors that explain knowledge management (KM) effectiveness, this paper aims to advance a simultaneously conceptual and practical framework that links human resource management (HRM) and KM.Design/methodology/approachA literature‐based preliminary framework assumes that a number of critical KM characteristics and KM‐related human resource (HR) practices impact on KM effectiveness. Qualitative methods are used for data collection and analysis. Three knowledge‐intensive Spanish business units of multinational companies are the target case‐study settings.FindingsSystematic patterns are found regarding the impact of critical KM characteristics and KM‐related…
Motivation and Mathematics Performance: A Longitudinal Study in Early Educational Stages
2017
Abstract This longitudinal study analyses the predictive value of a set of motivational variables on academic performance in the mathematics area. Analyses were performed on a sample of 180 children, with the data evaluated in two stages in formal educational settings (from kindergarten until 2nd year of Primary School). Likewise, differences between three groups (with low, average, and high mathematical performance at the end of second year of Primary School) in motivational and attributional variables assessed initially are also studied. The results show a significant predictive power on later mathematics achievement for self-perceived competence. Also persistence, attitude, and positive …
The association between motivation in school physical education and self-reported physical activity during Finnish junior high school
2012
The main purpose of this longitudinal study was to investigate the role of motivational climates, perceived competence and motivational regulations as antecedents of self-reported physical activity during junior high school years. The participants included 237 Finnish students (101 girls, 136 boys) that were 13 years old at the first stage of the study. Students completed the motivational climate and perceived competence questionnaires at Grade 7, motivation towards physical education questionnaire at Grade 8, and self-reported physical activity questionnaire at Grade 9. A path analysis revealed a path from task-involving motivational climate via perceived competence and intrinsic motivati…
Changes in personal work goals in relation to the psychosocial work environment: A two-year follow-up study
2011
Associations between changes in the psychosocial work environment and changes in personal work goals were investigated in a two-wave, two-year longitudinal study. Psychosocial work environment was studied within the context of the Effort–Reward Imbalance model (ERI; Siegrist, 1996). The participants consisted of 423 young Finnish managers. Their most important personal work goals were categorized into seven content categories of competence, progression, well-being, job change, job security, organization, and finance at both measurement times. There were differences, especially in changes in the career opportunities factor of reward, between participants whose goals changed during the study.…
Teori i praksis - praksis i teori. GLU-studenters refleksjoner om fag og didaktikk
2017
De siste tiars forskning, samfunnsdebatt og politikkutforming knyttet til skolesektoren har vaert preget av diskusjoner om hva det egentlig innebaerer a vaere en kompetent laerer, og hvordan de to laeringsarenaene i laererutdanningene – teoriarenaen og praksisarenaen – best kan utfylle hverandre for a utdanne kompetente laerere. I denne artikkelen presenterer vi resultatene fra en undersokelse blant grunnskolelaererstudenter pa en utdanningsinstitusjons grunnskolelaererutdanning for 1.–7. trinn. I undersokelsen har vi rettet blikket mot studentenes opplevelser av laererrollen og av sammenhengen mellom teoriarenaen og praksisarenaen. Dette har vi gjort i tilknytning til ett spesifikt undervi…
Adolescents’ preparedness and motivation across the transition to post-comprehensive education
2017
This longitudinal study aims to test the concept of transition preparedness in the context of educational transitions. The study investigates how adolescents' transition preparedness, conceptualized as their self-efficacy beliefs and their inoculation against setbacks, before an educational transition affect the adolescents' school value and effort related to educational goals after the transition through the effects on achievement goal orientations. Student data from three waves of a longitudinal study are used, first collected in 2004 (before the students' transition from comprehensive school to upper secondary education) and then collected twice after the transition. The students include…
Part-time special education predicts students' reading self-concept development
2018
Abstract The academic self-concept changes from childhood to early adulthood in relation to experiences of capability in different school tasks and comparison with peers. Students in special education have a lower academic self-concept than their peers do, but it is unclear how part-time special education affects self-concept development. In Finnish schools, part-time special education is learning support that is usually provided for 1–2 h/week in small groups. The main aim of this study was exploring the effects of participation in part-time special education and gender on the level and change in three academic self-concept domains (General School, Mathematics and Reading) between the ages…
Perceived movement skill competence in stability: Validity and reliability of a pictorial scale in early adolescents.
2021
Perceived motor competence (PMC) is important to health as it mediates the association between actual motor competence (AMC) and physical activity. Many instruments assess the broader construct of physical self-perception but no scale has been developed to assess PMC in stability. The aim of this study was to develop and analyze the reliability and validity of a new pictorial PMC in stability skill assessment when completed by early adolescents. A Delphi method showed ≥70% of experts' consensus in the seven proposed items. A sample of 904 students (11-14 years old) self-reported PMC in locomotion, object control, and stability using two pictorial scales: Perceived Movement Skill Competence …