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In the current scenario ruled by governance, the digital transformation of education is woven through the participation of multiple actors. Recent academic literature deals with the study of state, regional or private policies. However, municipal policies are also an element of great interest for illustrating micro-political processes, making it possible to develop situated work. Based on this premise, this paper studies the case of a municipality in the province of València that for the last decade has been implementing an initiative to provide digital devices to 5th grade students in its four schools. Using a qualitative approach, a field study is carried out by means of interviews with teachers and classroom observations, in which this initiative is investigated, delving into the difficulties and challenges it entails. The main results show that local councils are key bodies in promoting the digitalisation of schools, and that municipal policies reflect the trends in the transformation of education that govern the macro-political level. In conclusion, it can be seen that the municipal context is driving changes in classroom work, posing important challenges for teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a cooperative card game, as an innovative resource to teach nature of science (NoS) in primary education, which develops a gamified analogy of scientific practice about the discovery of the laws of nature. The foundation bases on the theory of serious learning games and on the explicit and reflective pedagogy required to teach NoS; in addition, the game is a flexible and open resource that can be adapted to the needs of diverse students and helps to alleviate the lack of resources and the scarce training of teachers on NoS teaching. The practice of the game provides opportunities to learn and develop some of the scientific thinking skills involved with NoS topics such as observation, evidence, argumentation, interpretation, reasoning, and the social skills of team collaboration and competition with colleagues. The methodology presents the context and the didactic content of the card game and the rules and procedures of its application to sixth grade primary school students, under their teachers' planning. Some preliminary results of game's practice and impact include the instruments (the teaching sequence, students' activity guides and the reading on a real scientific case of law discovery), some students' learning productions and some qualitative evaluation of the game experience, from teachers' and students' perceived satisfaction, motivation and interest, as experienced throughout the development of the card game. The attainments of the game experience for student learning and teacher training are discussed, as well as some alternatives, limitations and improvements of the card game experience, regarding the complex teaching of NoS topics to primary school students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Teaching thinking skills is a growing demand for educational systems due to its transversal role regarding competencies and learning and its functionality for persons and jobs in current knowledge societies. In psychological research, these skills are conceptualized as critical thinking, where teaching programs and some assessment tests, mainly aimed at adults, have been created. This study displays a culture-fair critical thinking assessment instrument, which addresses young people and includes figurative components, unlike other evaluation tools that are focused on specific learning. The instrument assesses four thinking skills, deduction, assumptions, sequences, and decision-making, and aims to students of secondary education (15-16 years). Its empirical validation considers students' school marks and the comparison between the participants' two grades, as external criteria, together with other procedures. The results show the psychometric characteristics of the assessment instrument for diagnosing students thinking skills; the most important findings are the significant and high correlations between school marks and thinking skills and the instrument discrimination for the differential diagnosis of two successive educational grades. Further, the validity and reliability of the figurative items are better than those of the verbal items, despite the latter being drawn from standardized instruments. Finally, the educational importance of creating a culture fair critical thinking assessment instrument and a common language that allows the development of the teaching thinking skills and their culture-free assessment within the classroom; further, some revision proposals for improving the instrument validity and reliability are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Both the focus and concern of critical thinking have been placed upon the development of teaching programs rather than upon evaluating the impact of the programs; therefore, this research article study aims at the evaluation of the thinking skills of Spanish students at the end of secondary education (15-16 years), its relationship with learning grades and the validation of the assessment instrument. The latter is planned as a culture-free instrument with an important figurative component, and is designed to evaluate four skills: deduction, assumptions, sequencing and decision making. The results facilitate a diagnosis of students' skills, and they highlight the most important finding --the significant and high correlation between the students' school grades and the thinking skills scores, which tend to be higher in mathematical and scientific subjects. The psychometric results on the instrument validity and reliability are good for figurative issues and lower for verbal issues, in spite of the fact that the latter are drawn from standardized critical thinking assessment instruments constructed by other authors. Finally, the importance of the results for education is discussed --as they confirm the cross-cutting relevance that thinking skills might have for school learning-- and some issues related to the assessment instrument are pondered in order to improve its validity and reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is a commonplace that critical thinking is an important ability for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Nevertheless, research has devoted more attention to critical thinking programs than to evaluating the effects of these programs, so that the empirical studies are the exception in this area. This study presents the pilot validation of two assessment tools on critical thinking skills using two natural groups of elementary and secondary students, who participate in a thinking-based learning program. The tools are designed to fit the skills developed in the program and the students' age, and combine some items drawn from already published critical thinking tests and some newly designed figurative items, which are independent of school's culture and knowledge. The results show a positive relationship between the assessment test scores and the external and independent validation criteria (students' school grades and thinking program marks). There is an extremely relevant correlation for one of the tools, acceptable reliability indices for the scales and better reliability and validity indices of the newly designed figurative items than the classical verbal items are the main contributions of the study. Finally, the future decision making to improve the tools, the development of research on free-culture customized tests, as initiated with this study, and the contributions of this pilot study are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, the penetrating social influence of digital media popularizes teaching methodologies, proposals and recipes, which, in many cases, lack academic credentials to justify its validity, or even, have already been refuted by the scientific community, becoming in mere educational hoaxes. Given this current reality, this research article reviews and reflects on the training of teachers (general and of science) proposing that it should be based on accredited research results, to achieve high educational standards. The proposal is articulated around several educational elements: some, contributed by the didactics of science, such as scientific and technological literacy, education in context and training model of science teachers, and others, contributed by general educational research, such as professional teaching knowledge, test-based research, cognitions, educational neuroscience and critical thinking. The reflection emphasizes the themes and needs shared between these elements, proposing the concept of critical literacy, which is developed in a taxonomy of critical thinking skills, considered essential for teacher training in the digital information space, common to all current education. Finally, an empirical model and some general features are suggested, such as the integration of knowledge and the development of critical thinking skills during teacher training, to meet current teaching and learning requirements in relation to critical literacy in science and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teaching and learning process of a musical instrument is intrinsically related to the development of procedural skills, where the acquisition of control in the execution of the actions occupies a highly significant place. From this point we turn our gaze towards the Alexander Technique (AT), where the mind-body is assumed to function in an integrated way. In the present study we examine the impact of its implementation in violin and viola classrooms, in relation to the modeling of specific behaviors to the performance and musical interpretation through a recording technology. To do this, we use the qualitative methodological paradigm, which conforms both to the objectives of our research as well as to the theoretical-practical foundation of AT, characterized by a holistic vision. The study starts from a specific course in this subject for elementary and professional teachers of violin and viola. After its completion, different teachers videotaped their pedagogical practices implementing the TA, which we analyzed through our proposed analytical model of classroom praxis. Using the Atlas.ti software for the treatment of the data from the audiovisual records, the results revealed that the professors subject to research incorporate various aspects of the AT in their pedagogical-didactic classroom action. The conclusions point to a set of potentialities that the application of AT presents in relation to the instrumental teaching-learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper reflects on the huge expansion of science education research in recent years, at the expense of its increasingly interdisciplinary. The expansion involved the addition of multiple nomad concepts (thesis of conceptual migration), which have extended the traditional disciplinary matrix towards a more and more interdisciplinary one. The data drawn from main science education international congresses allow empirically confirming the thesis of conceptual migration, mainly from psychology and pedagogy. Research on science education should recognize the original research in these areas as a primary source for science education. However, two widely-spread biases within research act against it: the preference to inbreeding self-citation and to neglect the other areas as original sources. Further, Hattie's paradigmatic meta-analysis on visible learning that discriminates the psychological and educational variables according to their impact on learning (thesis of interdisciplinary foundation) is analysed. The conclusions suggest that the new provider disciplines (psychology and pedagogy) should be recognised as necessary foundation for research and teacher training in science education. To this aim, science education research must assume its interdisciplinary, correct its self-referential inbreeding, and funding interdisciplinary concepts in the (psychological or pedagogical) original primary sources, to avoid the risk of "reinventing the wheel" or deforming the new concepts in science education, and to promote a science education research more coherent with the primary sources and attaining better quality and quantity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nature of scientific and technological knowledge is an essential component of scientific literacy or science competence and form part of the current science curricula as innovative content. Due to the lack of appropriate educational materials, however, teaching such concepts in the classroom is a major challenge. This paper presents up-to-date materials that are designed using a game format for teaching the nature of scientific knowledge within the classroom. Examples of different types of games are presented (jigsaw puzzles, cubes, card games, black boxes and scenarios) along with guidelines and orientations for their use. The games offer an authentic analogy of scientific practices and through participation, without prerequisites, the students are able to understand some complex aspects about the working of science and technology depending on the type of game at play. Finally, some reflections are made regarding the effectiveness of the materials for teaching the nature of scientific knowledge based on proposals in science education research and the traditional factors opposing educational innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study reviews the core concepts that research in science education advocates today to achieve quality teaching and learning of science, and therefore the concepts as evidences that should inspire the initial training of science teachers through the master studies. Thus, the concepts of scientific and technological literacy, key competencies, pedagogical content knowledge and nature of science and technology are raised, along with a list of beliefs about teaching science that represent widespread teaching mythical beliefs among teachers. From the previous concepts and beliefs an innovative four-category model of teacher training arises: concepts and processes, nature of science and technology, attitudes and values and cognitive skills of critical thinking. Finally, the application of the innovative training model and its implications for improving educational practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Local councillors and public managers have to face a recurrent problem: with scarce resources they have to be responsive to the citizen's demands and other actors in the local arena, combining the delivery of efficient local services with democratic quality. Using qualitative data, this article analyses a process of strategic planning in a local government to ascertain to what extent such a process contributes to conciliate the demands of more local democracy and better provision of public services with the participation of both citizens and local economic actors. Evidence provided by this case is positive although more comparative research is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta un análisis de la Ley 26/2007 de Responsabilidad Medioambiental de España, la cual reglamenta la responsabilidad sobre el daño ambiental y establece los criterios técnicos para determinar la gravedad y cuantía de los daños. El autor ofrece una revisión de los criterios enumerados en la ley y los procedimientos prácticos, en particular los referidos a los costes de reparación de daños.

This study features a diagnosis on the expectations and priorities of secondary education students relative to their working future in the Balearic Islands (Spain), by means of a questionnaire which appraises the importance of several features of a job. Features like helping others (of major importance for girls) and creativity (of major importance for boys) are the most appraised by young people, while craftsmanship (radically rejected by girls) and environmental aspects are considered of less importance. According to the questionnaire's factors structure, the self-updating related aspects have major importance, while the manual dimension is the least important. Debate of these results appeals directly to school science, while as long as the improvement and attention of job expectations defy education and science teaching in school, mainly for the development of science vocations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents the validity and reliability analysis of a questionnaire that assesses the importance of some general job features, for the diagnosis of youths' expectations and priorities concerning a future job. The results show an 8-factor structure with a very good fit to the theoretical structure of the questionnaire, and reliability for the entire questionnaire and for the factor sub-scales is also quite satisfactory. The analysis of the sub-scale scores reveals that youths' most important factor is Self-actualization, whereas the Manual dimension is the least important one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the literature on choosing science courses in school and the determining factors in such choice in light of the important role that this choice plays in the present crisis in the science professions. The factors that influence this choice are personal, school-related, and extra curricular. The most important personal factors are gender and attitudes toward science and toward school science subjects; the paper analyses both attitudes and gender in particular. The quality of science education as implemented through curricula, teachers, and fairness issues are some influential school-related factors. There are many, diverse out-of-school factors. Finally, several proposals to improve the choice of science subjects are discussed, such as strengthening academic counseling in school and innovating science education by giving it a humanistic twist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After an ictus, decline of cognitive function, mood and behaviour have been described. Our aim is to correlate the volume of the lesion (in sequences DRM and FLAIR) with the raw scores of cognitive and affective tests. Patients (N= 24) with vascular subcortical cerebral lesions were studied, and cognitive and affective behaviour tests were administered twice. The results show a negative correlation between the volume of the lesion in the DRM sequence and the verbal phonetic fluency (r = -0,42) and naming scores (r = -0,64). A negative correlation is also observed with the Naming Boston Test (r = -0,50) in the FLAIR sequence. Correlations between the volume of the lesion in the left hemisphere and the Trail Making Test part B and the naming test, were statistically significant. With relationship to the second evaluation carried out after three months, a certain improvement of the raw scores of the tests was observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El currículo, los materiales didácticos y las prácticas de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la educación científica tradicional abusan de los dos factores epistémicos sugeridos por el positivismo lógico, la referencia empírica y el razonamiento lógico, junto con su epítome el lenguaje matemático, que sostienen la verdad y la objetividad como valores esenciales de la ciencia. La consecuencia más notable de esta abusiva orientación positivista es la exclusión, implícita y explícita, de otros valores incompatibles con ellos (factores sociales, culturales o afectivos), tildados como impropios o acientíficos por oponerse a la objetividad de la ciencia, aunque sean didácticamente valiosos. Sin embargo, los análisis y las críticas filosóficas, sociológicas e históricas sobre el positivismo lógico han enfatizado la presencia de los aspectos afectivos, actitudinales y emocionales, entre otros más, en la construcción del conocimiento científico. Este estudio argumenta la necesidad de los factores actitudinales y afectivos como resortes imprescindibles para la didáctica de la ciencia. En esta segunda parte se exponen pruebas empíricas provenientes de la investigación específica sobre las variables afectivas relativas a la ciencia y la tecnología (actitudes hacia la ciencia escolar, creencias sobre naturaleza de la ciencia, imagen pública de la ciencia, actitudes hacia el medio ambiente, vocaciones científicas, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]