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Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2015
Spain is currently living a transitional situation. In 2013 a new educational law was passed, the Organic Law that Modifies the Quality of Education (LOMCE). That law, among many other aspects, introduces the use of standardized external tests either to (1) guide or provide suggestions for the educational track, or (2) to obtain inferences towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Standardized Tests, Testing Problems
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Cortón-Heras, María-de-la-O; Giraldez-Hayes, Andrea; Soliveres-Buigues, Rosa; Parejo, José-Luis – Qualitative Research in Education, 2023
Soft skills enable the individual to successfully face the problems and challenges of a complex society in flux and under constant uncertainty. Music, in its different forms of expression, is here introduced as an ideal tool for the development of intrapersonal and action skills such as adaptability, optimism and proactivity. In this paper we…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Teacher Education Programs, Case Studies, Self Efficacy
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McCoy, Mitchell A.; Holt, Sally – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2018
As a point of departure for understanding the complexities of Spanish national and individual identities, it is incumbent that a student begin by investigating Spanish iterations of the three Abrahamic religions. This presupposition of religion's centrality in the pursuit of better informed understandings of the Spanish nation, people, history and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Religion, European History
Suárez-Guerrero, Cristóbal; Muñoz Moreno, José Luís – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2017
The school is an enriched learning environment, but it is not the only educational environment. The educational mission of the school should take into account the school-family coordination as a feature of its social project. A great part of this bridge between school and family is based on dialogue through the participation of the family in the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Cooperation, Educational Improvement, Teamwork
Sotomayor, Gilda E. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2014
This article aims to outline and project three new learning scenarios for Higher Education that, after the emergence of ICT and communication through the Network-lnternet, have appeared under the generic name of virtual communities. To that end, we start from a previous conceptual analysis on collaborative learning, cooperative learning and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Computer Simulation, Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication
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Leon, Samuel P.; Abad, Maria J. F.; Rosas, Juan M. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2010
The goal of this experiment was to assess the impact that experience with a task has on the context specificity of the learning that occurs. Participants performed an instrumental task within a computer game where different responses were performed in the presence of discriminative stimuli to obtain reinforcers. The number of training trials (3,…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Transfer of Training, Learning, Training