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Gifted Education in German-Speaking Countries
2011
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a comprehensive yet detailed account of the current giftedness and gifted education situation in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It is concerned with four main research questions: (1) How is ‘giftedness’ defined in German-speaking countries? (2) How are gifted children identified? (3) What gifted education programs are there? (4) What are the empirical findings on these programs?The article is based on relevant journal articles, books, and webpages. The review of each of the topics mentioned above is accompanied by some critical comments.
Social interaction learning strategies, motivation, first-year students’ experiences and permanence in university studies
2017
Applying a structural equations modelling methodology, the study analyses the relationships and effects of self-regulated learning (social interaction learning strategies and motivation) and first-...
New modes of policy legitimation in education: (Mis)using comparative data to effectuate assessment reform
2017
Identifying three modes of policy legitimation in education, illustrated by shifts in Swedish educational assessment and grading policies over the past decades, the paper demonstrates significant trends with regard to national governments’ policymaking and borrowing. We observe a shift away from collaboracy – defined as policy legitimation located in partnerships and networks of stakeholders, researchers and other experts – towards more use of supranational agencies (called agency), such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Union and associated networks, as well as the use of individual consultants and private enterprises (called consultancy) to legiti…
Who Said That? Investigating the Plausibility-Induced Source Focusing Assumption with Norwegian Undergraduate Readers
2016
Abstract The present study investigated to what extent encountering a textual claim that contradicts one’s prior beliefs may increase readers’ memory for the source of the information, such as the author or publication. A sample of 71 Norwegian economics and administration undergraduates were presented with texts on cell phones and potential health risks that either concluded that cell phones involve serious health risks or that they are perfectly safe. Results showed that readers’ memory for source feature information increased when the conclusion of the text contradicted the belief that cell phone use poses serious health risks but not when it contradicted the belief that cell phone use d…
Validating the Spanish version of the aggression scale in adolescents
2021
The Scale of Physical and Verbal Aggressiveness has been an instrument widely used in the scientific literature to measure physical and verbal aggressiveness, both in children and adolescents as we...
2020
To validly assess teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), performance-based tasks with open-response formats are required. Automated scoring is considered an appropriate ap-proach to reduce the resource-intensity of human scoring and to achieve more consistent scor-ing results than human raters. The focus is on the comparability of human and automated scor-ing of PCK for economics teachers. The answers of (prospective) teachers (N=852) to six open-response tasks from a standardized and validated test were scored by two trained human raters and the engine "Educational SCoRIng TOolkit" (ESCRITO). The average agreement between human and computer ratings, κw = .66, suggests a convergent …
Los efectos a largo plazo de las competencias emocionales y la autoestima en los síntomas internalizantes en la adolescencia
2021
Resumen Los sintomas internalizantes como el estado de animo depresivo, las quejas somaticas y la ansiedad de los adolescentes es una preocupacion importante y global para los padres, los educadores y los profesionales. Las investigaciones empiricas indican que una elevada autoestima esta asociada con la adaptacion psicologica y el bienestar emocional en la adolescencia. En el presente estudio se ha examinado la autoestima como posible mediador en la relacion entre las competencias emocionales y los sintomas internalizantes durante la adolescencia. Los datos de 855 adolescentes espanoles (M = 13.6, DT = 1.09, 52% chicas) se han recogido en dos momentos, utilizando un diseno longitudinal. El…
Eficacia de una app psicoeducativa para reducir el sexismo en adolescentes
2019
Resumen El presente estudio evalua la eficacia de una intervencion consistente en el uso de una aplicacion movil en formato juego dirigida a reducir el sexismo en adolescentes. Se lleva a cabo un estudio cuasiexperimental pretest-postest con grupos de intervencion y de control. Participan 369 estudiantes de Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria de entre 12 y 17 anos de la provincia de Valencia, de los cuales 196 se asignan a la condicion de intervencion con la aplicacion y 173 al grupo control. Se evalua sexismo hostil y benevolo a partir de la teoria del sexismo ambivalente en ambos momentos temporales. La intervencion presencial, de dos h de duracion, consiste en explicar la dinamica e impleme…
Clima motivacional en clase, motivación y éxito académico en estudiantes universitarios
2018
Resumen El objetivo de este estudio es predecir el exito academico a partir del clima motivacional de la clase, mediado por la motivacion del estudiantado universitario. Los participantes son 758 estudiantes universitarios de Republica Dominicana, con edades comprendidas entre 18 y 50 anos (21.1% hombres y 78.9% mujeres). Se administra una bateria de instrumentos para medir las variables senaladas y se aplica un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales completo para predecir el exito academico. De los resultados destaca el efecto directo del apoyo a la autonomia de los estudiantes sobre su satisfaccion con el centro educativo, y el efecto de la satisfaccion de las necesidades basicas tanto sobre …
Una nueva mirada a la formación en eficacia docente de Gordon (TET): Un estudio-intervención en el aprendizaje social y emocional del profesorado
2017
Introducción.. En este estudio exploramos el desarrollo de las habilidades de aprendizaje social y emocional (SEL) de los docentes, mediante el uso de MET [Maestros Eficaz y Técnicamente preparados] (Gordon Training International) como intervención con dos grupos de docentes. También quisimos abordar el modelo de Gordon desde la perspectiva de la psicología educativa moderna. Los efectos de la intervención MET sobre los docentes fueron examinados utilizando el modelo de Kirkpatrick y Kirkpatrick (2006), ya que consideramos importante observar diversos aspectos de los resultados de la intervención, incluyendo las reacciones, el conocimiento, la aplicación del conocimiento (habilidades) y el …