ABSTRACT The present research approached a problem which has a twofold aspect: the concept of ang... more ABSTRACT The present research approached a problem which has a twofold aspect: the concept of angle and the techniques needed to represent how pupils construct that concept in their cognitive structure during their years in school. In order to access the knowledge of the concept of angle, we used the pathfinder associative networks. This technique provided us with the data of the 458 networks of the participating students, using 11 concepts related to the general concept of angle. We used quantitative indicators on the network characteristics: coherence, complexity, and similarity with others. Results showed how the pupil’s cognitive structure evolutioned during instruction and what were the most relevant concepts for them. On the basis of the results, we have proposed what we call the “Theory of Nuclear Concepts” which offers a new focus to understanding how the processes of teaching and learning occur.
... o seu conhecimento através da técnica de Redes Associativas Pathfinder JOSÉ LUÍS CARVALHO, JO... more ... o seu conhecimento através da técnica de Redes Associativas Pathfinder JOSÉ LUÍS CARVALHO, JOSÉ LUÍS RAMOS Centro de Investigação em Educação e Psicologia, Universidade de Évora, Portugal [email protected], [email protected] ...
Esta investigación ha sido realizada con cargo al Proyecto PRI09A005 según la "Orden de 17 de dic... more Esta investigación ha sido realizada con cargo al Proyecto PRI09A005 según la "Orden de 17 de diciembre de 2008, DOE nº 2, de 5 de enero de 2009, por la que se convocan subvenciones para la realización de proyectos de investigación, desarrollo e innovación de Extremadura.
Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con... more Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con este artículo, presentar los resultados obtenidos sobre la estructura cognitiva, referida a la noción de Probabilidad, de alumnos de 9º (14-15 años) y 12º (17-18 años) curso de escolaridad, en Portugal. En cuanto a la metodología empleada, en primer lugar fueron encuestados 344 alumnos y en un segundo momento 325. Los datos recogidos, de las Redes Asociativas Pathfinder (PFNET), permitieron identificar los conceptos que asumen un mayor relieve, su correspondiente organización y un conjunto de indicadores cuantitativos relevantes a la luz de la Teoría de los Conceptos Nucleares. Los resultados muestran que esta teoría constituye una destacada herramienta didáctica para la organización de la práctica docente y un referente pedagógico importante en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Probabilidad.
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led many more universities to increase the number of online c... more The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led many more universities to increase the number of online courses they offer. Methodological processes and infrastructure have had to be adapted so as to make the shift from a classroom-based model to distance learning. The context of our research is the Master’s Degree in Research in Teacher Training and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Two research objectives were established: To determine the changes that take place between the beginning and end of the Master’s degree in relation to the students’ engagement with ICT and to ascertain if students’ perception of the problems encountered in the virtual teaching/learning process has changed. Twenty-one master’s students took part. The research was based on the qualitative paradigm, with a content analysis research design. A table of categories was developed and validated, from which the script for the structured interviews was prepared. The main findings highlight the lack of training and involvement of teachers and their failure to adapt to the online methodology, together with a decrease in student motivation, as being particularly problematic in the teaching and learning process.
La utilización de recursos tecnológicos en la enseñanza de las matemáticas está tomando mucha imp... more La utilización de recursos tecnológicos en la enseñanza de las matemáticas está tomando mucha importancia en los últimos años, en concreto se están produciendo muchos avances en la utilización del programa Geogebra para la enseñanza de la geometría y su integración en plataformas de Learning Management System (LMS). En este trabajo se diseñó e implementó una experiencia para la enseñanza de los elementos notables del triángulo con Geogebra y se analizó su influencia en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Se compararon las Redes Asociativas Pathfinder (RAP, dentro de la Teoría de los Conceptos Nucleares) de dos grupos, uno experimental y otro de control, que cumplían las condiciones de homogeneidad en cuanto a conocimientos previos, antes y después de una intervención educativa, en la cual, se proporcionó al grupo experimental un material de apoyo en formato SCORM, en los que se incluyeron applets interactivos de Geogebra Los resultados mostraron diferencias estadísticamente significa...
Federación Iberoamericana de Sociedades de Educación Matemática (FISEM), Mar 1, 2011
En el presente artículo, extraído de una experiencia con alumnos de Educación Primaria, se coment... more En el presente artículo, extraído de una experiencia con alumnos de Educación Primaria, se comentan las virtualidades y el papel cognitivo que desempeña la Recta Numérica como metáfora e instrumento de representación de los números. En ella, mediante el lenguaje espacial y visual, pueden modelarse la estructura, operaciones, y propiedades del sistema de numeración. De modo que los alumnos puedan formase una correcta representación mental del mismo.
Revista Latinoamericana de Investigación en Matemática Educativa, 2017
Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con... more Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con este artículo, presentar los resultados obtenidos sobre la estructura cognitiva, referida a la noción de Probabilidad, de alumnos de 9º (14-15 años de edad) y 12º (17-18 años de edad) curso de escolaridad, en Portugal. Tras ser impartida la enseñanza sobre este tema, en primer lugar fueron encuestados 344 alumnos y en un segundo momento 325. Los datos recogidos, de las Redes Asociativas Pathfinder (PFNET), permitieron identificar los conceptos que asumen un mayor relieve, su correspondiente organización y la relación entre las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold. Los resultados muestran que ambas teorías constituyen una destacada herramienta didáctica para la organización de la práctica docente y un referente pedagógico importante en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Probabilidad.
Articulo que sirve como editorial al vol. 37, no 1 (2018) de "Campo Abierto. Revista de Educ... more Articulo que sirve como editorial al vol. 37, no 1 (2018) de "Campo Abierto. Revista de Educacion".
Este estudio exploró las concepciones implícitas docentes respecto a la evaluación de los aprendi... more Este estudio exploró las concepciones implícitas docentes respecto a la evaluación de los aprendizajes utilizando una metodología cualitativa en la que se combinó el análisis de contingencias para el análisis de contenido de textos y la representación gráfica mediante Redes Asociativas Pathfinder para destacar las principales categorías de análisis obtenidas y su relación. Los sujetos participantes fueron 87 maestros en formación inicial de dos universidades una española y una peruana, la recogida de datos se hizo mediante relatos en la que se solicitó a los sujetos a que redacten sus opiniones reflexionando sobre las dimensiones de la evaluación y para el volcado de datos se hizo con el software cualitativo WebQDA. Los resultados evidencian que esta metodología es apropiada para el estudio de concepciones implícitas docentes, ayuda la obtención de datos con mínima intervención del investigador y puede ser aplicada a múltiples temas de investigación, además el estudio indica que las...
Entrepreneurship in doctoral programs: Perspectives of doctoral students and professors on the content of the courses
Introduction; Higher education under the current framework of the European Higher Education Area ... more Introduction; Higher education under the current framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has proved to be a revulsive for all university teaching. This current learning system, already well established in our universities, has as its main hallmark the teaching and assessment of competences. Thus, in particular in the Bachelor's Degrees in Nursing, these competences; general, specific and transversal, must address learning about knowledge and skills on the following four functions: health care, research, management and teaching. Objectives: To analyse the competences of the UEx Nursing Degree, in order to know the learning achieved, in Health Education, by students and graduates and therefore the level of competences acquired. Methods: Type of observational design and qualitative analysis using webQDA® online software. The objective is to carry out an innovative proposal for a qualitative analysis of the competences included in all the subjects of the Degree in Nur...
RELIEVE - Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa, 2014
This article summarizes a quasi-experimental investigation conducted in Secondary School with two... more This article summarizes a quasi-experimental investigation conducted in Secondary School with two distinct objectives: establishing the possible relationship between a student's learning style (from Honey-Alonso's perspective) and performance in math; and critically analyzing whether the selection process of optional courses in Compulsory Secondary School is based on objective, fair, and appropriate information about the student. The studied sample showed that there are significant relationships between the middle-high math performance level and an emphasis on reflexive and theoretical areas of study. It has also been found that the students in each optional course conform to a homogeneous subgroup with respect to the students' performance and learning styles.
2021 XI International Conference on Virtual Campus (JICV), 2021
The distance education model has insufficient consideration of the emotional aspects of the stude... more The distance education model has insufficient consideration of the emotional aspects of the students, where the training action takes place without personal interactions, causing it to be very difficult to feel like a member of an educational community. The research aimed to observe the evolution of emotions and learning styles during the Master’s Degree in Research in Teacher Training and ICT. A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, single-group research design was employed, using descriptive and inferential data analysis. On the one hand, the questionnaire to measure emotions towards the elements of online education. On the other hand, the REATIC (Relation of Learning Styles with ICT, in Spanish) questionnaire. A significant increase in boredom has been observed and the predominant learning styles are pragmatic and theoretical.
This article, part of a much broader research, aims to present the perceived barriers to the inte... more This article, part of a much broader research, aims to present the perceived barriers to the integration of ICT in education by preschool and primaryteachers of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). The results obtained by factor analysis of data from a sample of 567 teachers, indicate that for them, the main obstacles are lack of time, lack of competence, and lack of computers in the classroom. We have also identified three dimensions that we call infrastructure and material barriers, training barriers and curriculum and organization barriers.
Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), Jun 4, 2021
The objective of the research was to observe the evolution of attitude, knowledge, and use of ICT... more The objective of the research was to observe the evolution of attitude, knowledge, and use of ICT resources in students during the progression of the Research Master's degree in Teacher Training and ICTs in the Faculty of Education at the University of Extremadura. A total of 21 students from the Master's program participated. A concurrent triangulation mixed method was used, combining descriptive and inferential data analysis with content analysis, developing the quantitative and qualitative designs in parallel. Among the main conclusions obtained, it is noted that no statistically significant differences were observed in the attitude, knowledge, and use of ICT resources of the students between the beginning and the end of the Master's program. However, a positive correlation was found between knowledge and the use of ICT resources, both at the beginning and at the end of the Master's program. Moreover, it was found that not only do the students have a positive attitude and a medium knowledge with the use of ICT resources but also that the main problems in the teaching/learning process in the online Master's program are related to the teaching staff and organization.
ABSTRACT The present research approached a problem which has a twofold aspect: the concept of ang... more ABSTRACT The present research approached a problem which has a twofold aspect: the concept of angle and the techniques needed to represent how pupils construct that concept in their cognitive structure during their years in school. In order to access the knowledge of the concept of angle, we used the pathfinder associative networks. This technique provided us with the data of the 458 networks of the participating students, using 11 concepts related to the general concept of angle. We used quantitative indicators on the network characteristics: coherence, complexity, and similarity with others. Results showed how the pupil’s cognitive structure evolutioned during instruction and what were the most relevant concepts for them. On the basis of the results, we have proposed what we call the “Theory of Nuclear Concepts” which offers a new focus to understanding how the processes of teaching and learning occur.
... o seu conhecimento através da técnica de Redes Associativas Pathfinder JOSÉ LUÍS CARVALHO, JO... more ... o seu conhecimento através da técnica de Redes Associativas Pathfinder JOSÉ LUÍS CARVALHO, JOSÉ LUÍS RAMOS Centro de Investigação em Educação e Psicologia, Universidade de Évora, Portugal [email protected], [email protected] ...
Esta investigación ha sido realizada con cargo al Proyecto PRI09A005 según la "Orden de 17 de dic... more Esta investigación ha sido realizada con cargo al Proyecto PRI09A005 según la "Orden de 17 de diciembre de 2008, DOE nº 2, de 5 de enero de 2009, por la que se convocan subvenciones para la realización de proyectos de investigación, desarrollo e innovación de Extremadura.
Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con... more Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con este artículo, presentar los resultados obtenidos sobre la estructura cognitiva, referida a la noción de Probabilidad, de alumnos de 9º (14-15 años) y 12º (17-18 años) curso de escolaridad, en Portugal. En cuanto a la metodología empleada, en primer lugar fueron encuestados 344 alumnos y en un segundo momento 325. Los datos recogidos, de las Redes Asociativas Pathfinder (PFNET), permitieron identificar los conceptos que asumen un mayor relieve, su correspondiente organización y un conjunto de indicadores cuantitativos relevantes a la luz de la Teoría de los Conceptos Nucleares. Los resultados muestran que esta teoría constituye una destacada herramienta didáctica para la organización de la práctica docente y un referente pedagógico importante en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Probabilidad.
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led many more universities to increase the number of online c... more The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led many more universities to increase the number of online courses they offer. Methodological processes and infrastructure have had to be adapted so as to make the shift from a classroom-based model to distance learning. The context of our research is the Master’s Degree in Research in Teacher Training and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Two research objectives were established: To determine the changes that take place between the beginning and end of the Master’s degree in relation to the students’ engagement with ICT and to ascertain if students’ perception of the problems encountered in the virtual teaching/learning process has changed. Twenty-one master’s students took part. The research was based on the qualitative paradigm, with a content analysis research design. A table of categories was developed and validated, from which the script for the structured interviews was prepared. The main findings highlight the lack of training and involvement of teachers and their failure to adapt to the online methodology, together with a decrease in student motivation, as being particularly problematic in the teaching and learning process.
La utilización de recursos tecnológicos en la enseñanza de las matemáticas está tomando mucha imp... more La utilización de recursos tecnológicos en la enseñanza de las matemáticas está tomando mucha importancia en los últimos años, en concreto se están produciendo muchos avances en la utilización del programa Geogebra para la enseñanza de la geometría y su integración en plataformas de Learning Management System (LMS). En este trabajo se diseñó e implementó una experiencia para la enseñanza de los elementos notables del triángulo con Geogebra y se analizó su influencia en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Se compararon las Redes Asociativas Pathfinder (RAP, dentro de la Teoría de los Conceptos Nucleares) de dos grupos, uno experimental y otro de control, que cumplían las condiciones de homogeneidad en cuanto a conocimientos previos, antes y después de una intervención educativa, en la cual, se proporcionó al grupo experimental un material de apoyo en formato SCORM, en los que se incluyeron applets interactivos de Geogebra Los resultados mostraron diferencias estadísticamente significa...
Federación Iberoamericana de Sociedades de Educación Matemática (FISEM), Mar 1, 2011
En el presente artículo, extraído de una experiencia con alumnos de Educación Primaria, se coment... more En el presente artículo, extraído de una experiencia con alumnos de Educación Primaria, se comentan las virtualidades y el papel cognitivo que desempeña la Recta Numérica como metáfora e instrumento de representación de los números. En ella, mediante el lenguaje espacial y visual, pueden modelarse la estructura, operaciones, y propiedades del sistema de numeración. De modo que los alumnos puedan formase una correcta representación mental del mismo.
Revista Latinoamericana de Investigación en Matemática Educativa, 2017
Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con... more Con base en las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold, se pretende, con este artículo, presentar los resultados obtenidos sobre la estructura cognitiva, referida a la noción de Probabilidad, de alumnos de 9º (14-15 años de edad) y 12º (17-18 años de edad) curso de escolaridad, en Portugal. Tras ser impartida la enseñanza sobre este tema, en primer lugar fueron encuestados 344 alumnos y en un segundo momento 325. Los datos recogidos, de las Redes Asociativas Pathfinder (PFNET), permitieron identificar los conceptos que asumen un mayor relieve, su correspondiente organización y la relación entre las Teorías de los Conceptos Nucleares y de los Conceptos Threshold. Los resultados muestran que ambas teorías constituyen una destacada herramienta didáctica para la organización de la práctica docente y un referente pedagógico importante en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Probabilidad.
Articulo que sirve como editorial al vol. 37, no 1 (2018) de "Campo Abierto. Revista de Educ... more Articulo que sirve como editorial al vol. 37, no 1 (2018) de "Campo Abierto. Revista de Educacion".
Este estudio exploró las concepciones implícitas docentes respecto a la evaluación de los aprendi... more Este estudio exploró las concepciones implícitas docentes respecto a la evaluación de los aprendizajes utilizando una metodología cualitativa en la que se combinó el análisis de contingencias para el análisis de contenido de textos y la representación gráfica mediante Redes Asociativas Pathfinder para destacar las principales categorías de análisis obtenidas y su relación. Los sujetos participantes fueron 87 maestros en formación inicial de dos universidades una española y una peruana, la recogida de datos se hizo mediante relatos en la que se solicitó a los sujetos a que redacten sus opiniones reflexionando sobre las dimensiones de la evaluación y para el volcado de datos se hizo con el software cualitativo WebQDA. Los resultados evidencian que esta metodología es apropiada para el estudio de concepciones implícitas docentes, ayuda la obtención de datos con mínima intervención del investigador y puede ser aplicada a múltiples temas de investigación, además el estudio indica que las...
Entrepreneurship in doctoral programs: Perspectives of doctoral students and professors on the content of the courses
Introduction; Higher education under the current framework of the European Higher Education Area ... more Introduction; Higher education under the current framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has proved to be a revulsive for all university teaching. This current learning system, already well established in our universities, has as its main hallmark the teaching and assessment of competences. Thus, in particular in the Bachelor's Degrees in Nursing, these competences; general, specific and transversal, must address learning about knowledge and skills on the following four functions: health care, research, management and teaching. Objectives: To analyse the competences of the UEx Nursing Degree, in order to know the learning achieved, in Health Education, by students and graduates and therefore the level of competences acquired. Methods: Type of observational design and qualitative analysis using webQDA® online software. The objective is to carry out an innovative proposal for a qualitative analysis of the competences included in all the subjects of the Degree in Nur...
RELIEVE - Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa, 2014
This article summarizes a quasi-experimental investigation conducted in Secondary School with two... more This article summarizes a quasi-experimental investigation conducted in Secondary School with two distinct objectives: establishing the possible relationship between a student's learning style (from Honey-Alonso's perspective) and performance in math; and critically analyzing whether the selection process of optional courses in Compulsory Secondary School is based on objective, fair, and appropriate information about the student. The studied sample showed that there are significant relationships between the middle-high math performance level and an emphasis on reflexive and theoretical areas of study. It has also been found that the students in each optional course conform to a homogeneous subgroup with respect to the students' performance and learning styles.
2021 XI International Conference on Virtual Campus (JICV), 2021
The distance education model has insufficient consideration of the emotional aspects of the stude... more The distance education model has insufficient consideration of the emotional aspects of the students, where the training action takes place without personal interactions, causing it to be very difficult to feel like a member of an educational community. The research aimed to observe the evolution of emotions and learning styles during the Master’s Degree in Research in Teacher Training and ICT. A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, single-group research design was employed, using descriptive and inferential data analysis. On the one hand, the questionnaire to measure emotions towards the elements of online education. On the other hand, the REATIC (Relation of Learning Styles with ICT, in Spanish) questionnaire. A significant increase in boredom has been observed and the predominant learning styles are pragmatic and theoretical.
This article, part of a much broader research, aims to present the perceived barriers to the inte... more This article, part of a much broader research, aims to present the perceived barriers to the integration of ICT in education by preschool and primaryteachers of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). The results obtained by factor analysis of data from a sample of 567 teachers, indicate that for them, the main obstacles are lack of time, lack of competence, and lack of computers in the classroom. We have also identified three dimensions that we call infrastructure and material barriers, training barriers and curriculum and organization barriers.
Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), Jun 4, 2021
The objective of the research was to observe the evolution of attitude, knowledge, and use of ICT... more The objective of the research was to observe the evolution of attitude, knowledge, and use of ICT resources in students during the progression of the Research Master's degree in Teacher Training and ICTs in the Faculty of Education at the University of Extremadura. A total of 21 students from the Master's program participated. A concurrent triangulation mixed method was used, combining descriptive and inferential data analysis with content analysis, developing the quantitative and qualitative designs in parallel. Among the main conclusions obtained, it is noted that no statistically significant differences were observed in the attitude, knowledge, and use of ICT resources of the students between the beginning and the end of the Master's program. However, a positive correlation was found between knowledge and the use of ICT resources, both at the beginning and at the end of the Master's program. Moreover, it was found that not only do the students have a positive attitude and a medium knowledge with the use of ICT resources but also that the main problems in the teaching/learning process in the online Master's program are related to the teaching staff and organization.
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