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The acquisition of reading comprehension abilities and written expression is one of the key factors among learning processes in which students show many difficulties. For this reason, it is necessary to implement effective intervention strategies from early school years. The program EPI.com is aimed at improving lexical, semantic, and syntactic processes related to the reading process. This work aims to analyze the efficiency of EPI.com in years 1&2 of Primary Education. Participants in the research were 62 students (ages 6–8), who were assigned to an Experimental Group (EG; 38 students receiving the EPI.com intervention) and a Control Group (CG; 24 following traditional teaching and learning methods). The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and the Peabody test were applied before and after the intervention was carried out. Results showed that the strategy was effective in EG in improving the psycholinguistic aspects measured by the ITPA, with better results in the variables related to syntactic and lexical processing. Taking the results into account, it was concluded that EPI.com allows students to improve the abilities relating to reading skills. Also, the results highlight the need to incorporate interventions aimed at favoring maturation in some key aspects at early ages.
Marisol Cueli; Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez; Stephen Loew; Paloma González-Castro; Celestino Rodríguez. Is Organizing Knowledge Effective in Primary Education? Education Research International 2020, 2020, 1 -9.
AMA StyleMarisol Cueli, Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez, Stephen Loew, Paloma González-Castro, Celestino Rodríguez. Is Organizing Knowledge Effective in Primary Education? Education Research International. 2020; 2020 ():1-9.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarisol Cueli; Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez; Stephen Loew; Paloma González-Castro; Celestino Rodríguez. 2020. "Is Organizing Knowledge Effective in Primary Education?" Education Research International 2020, no. : 1-9.
Factors such as social change and increasing urbanization processes in the early years of the 21st century have caused a reduction in the amount of time that children devote to leisure activities in the open-air, resulting in more sedentary lifestyles than children in previous decades. An education in healthy habits from early ages to increase children’s physical and mental well-being together with their level of cultural knowledge contributes to the acquisition of a Leisure Culture that allows children to perceive the close environment as a scene for learning and enjoyment. It is thus be necessary for schools to foster pedagogical experiences, taking the physical and cultural environment as teaching resources. An innovation project is proposed which will be implemented with 25 university students from the School of Teacher Training and Education at the University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain). The project will consist of the proposal of educational itineraries through the city of Oviedo and Mount Naranco. As teachers-to-be, students must combine knowledge of the related areas and generate inter-disciplinary activities throughout the routes that will foster respect for the environment and leisure based on culture and physical activity, attitudes that they will transmit to their own students in the future.
María Belén San Pedro Veledo; Inés López Manrique; Inés Fombella Coto; Yolanda Del Cura González; Beatriz Sánchez Martínez; Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez. Social Sciences, Art and Physical Activity in Leisure Environments. An Inter-Disciplinary Project for Teacher Training. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1786 .
AMA StyleMaría Belén San Pedro Veledo, Inés López Manrique, Inés Fombella Coto, Yolanda Del Cura González, Beatriz Sánchez Martínez, Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez. Social Sciences, Art and Physical Activity in Leisure Environments. An Inter-Disciplinary Project for Teacher Training. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1786.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Belén San Pedro Veledo; Inés López Manrique; Inés Fombella Coto; Yolanda Del Cura González; Beatriz Sánchez Martínez; Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez. 2018. "Social Sciences, Art and Physical Activity in Leisure Environments. An Inter-Disciplinary Project for Teacher Training." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1786.
En el proceso de aprendizaje resulta clave la adquisición de habilidades de comprensión y expresión, sobre todo dadas las dificultades de los estudiantes. La estrategia informatizada EPI.com se basa en la adaptación del hipertexto a Educación Infantil con el fin de mejorar los procesos léxicos, semánticos y sintácticos. En este trabajo se plantea como objetivo analizar la eficacia de EPI.com en la mejora de aspectos psicolingüísticos y verbales de forma global y en función de la edad. Participaron 155 estudiantes (3-6 años) clasificados en grupo experimental (93 estudiantes que trabajaron con EPI.com) y grupo control (62 estudiantes que siguieron la metodología habitual). Todos ellos fueron evaluados con el Test de Illinois de Habilidades Psicolingüísticas y el test Peabody. Los resultados muestran la eficacia de la estrategia en el grupo experimental, con puntuaciones estadísticamente significativas en los aspectos psicolingüísticos frente al grupo control. Son los estudiantes de 3 años quienes obtienen un mayor beneficio. Se concluyó la eficacia de EPI.com sobre la mejora de los aspectos psicolingüísticos con la muestra utilizada. The acquisition of comprehension and expression skills is the key in the learning process, especially given the difficulties of students. EPI.com is a computerised strategy based on the adaptation of hypertext to Early Childhood Education. It aims to improve the lexical, semantic and syntactic processes. The objective of this study was to analyse the effectiveness of EPI.com for improving overall and specific psycho-linguistic and verbal aspects (depending on the age). To this end, a total of 155 participants (3-6 years old) were classified into two groups, an experimental group (93 children who worked with EPI.com) and a control group (62 children who followed the traditional methodology). All of them completed the Illinois Test of Psycho-linguistic Abilities, and the Peabody test. The results showed the effectiveness of the strategy in the experimental group in the Psycho-linguistic Abilities. The 3 year-old children obtained the greatest benefits with the intervention. The analysis concluded that EPI.com is effective in improving psycho-linguistic abilities in this population sample.
Marisol Cueli; Celestino Rodríguez; Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez; Débora Areces; Paloma González-Castro. Eficacia del programa informatizado EPI.com para la mejora de la comprensión y la expresión de estudiantes de entre 3 y 6 años. Revista de Psicodidáctica 2017, 22, 128 -134.
AMA StyleMarisol Cueli, Celestino Rodríguez, Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez, Débora Areces, Paloma González-Castro. Eficacia del programa informatizado EPI.com para la mejora de la comprensión y la expresión de estudiantes de entre 3 y 6 años. Revista de Psicodidáctica. 2017; 22 (2):128-134.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarisol Cueli; Celestino Rodríguez; Ana Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez; Débora Areces; Paloma González-Castro. 2017. "Eficacia del programa informatizado EPI.com para la mejora de la comprensión y la expresión de estudiantes de entre 3 y 6 años." Revista de Psicodidáctica 22, no. 2: 128-134.