University students’ strategies and criteria during self-assessment: instructor’s feedback,rubrics, and year level effects

European Journal of Psychology of Education - This study explores the effects of feedback type, feedback occasion, and year level on student self-assessments in higher education. In total, 126...     

Schooling and local environmental knowledge: Do they complement or substitute each other?

Schooling and the knowledge acquired at school have been considered both a cause of loss of indigenous knowledge (because it opens pathways to the non-indigenous world and worldviews) and a potential remedy to its demise (if educational curricula is aligned with indigenous realities by giving instruction in local languages and incorporating local knowledge in school content). We test the association between academic and local environmental knowledge using data from a society of forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon who were exposed to a partially contextualized school curriculum. We found that although schooling and academic knowledge bear a negative association with local knowledge the magnitude is low, probably because schooling was partially contextualized. Contextualized learning might help avoid that the provision of universal education comes at the cost of humanity's cultural diversity.     

Intercultural sensitivity among university students: measurement of the construct and its relationship with international mobility programmes / Sensibilidad intercultural de los estudiantes universitarios: medición del constructo y su relación con los programas de movilidad internacional

The purpose of this study was to validate the IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) and to assess the impact of international mobility programmes on the intercultural sensitivity of university students. For this, a quasi-experimental study was carried out using a longitudinal design of repeated pre-test and post-test measures, with an experimental group of students who carried out international mobility programmes and a control group of students who did not. The sample consisted of 3,047 university students. The inventory yielded a five-factor structure (negation/defence, minimization, reversion, acceptance/adaptation and encapsulated marginality) with alpha coefficients ranging from .82 to .91, revealing adequate reliability and validity. The results indicate the effectiveness of the IDI to measure intercultural sensitivity. Although the post-test scores are higher than the pre-test scores for both groups, there are significant differences in favour of the experimental group (p = .000) in all factors except the negation/defence stage. The conclusions focus on the implications of this study for curriculum development and policy at an educational level.     

Social Guarantee Programme: principles for classroom procedure with students who have suffered failure at school – the Spanish educational system case

The article explores the Social Guarantee Programmes, one measure at attending to diversity within the Spanish educational system. It is an alternative measure that aims to break away from the organisational structure of Obligatory Secondary Education, seeking an organisational model and educational strategies that pursue satisfactory results through motivation, interest and the recovery of the student’s self‐esteem. The article presents the obtained results following ethnographic case study methodology. The research was performed in a secondary education school in a town in the province of Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain. The group chosen suffered significant learning difficulties and problems in adapting to schools. Our intention was to analyse and understand the relevant educational practices in the context of these programmes, since they were so innovative in nature.     

La educación bilingüe y el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua: sus características y principios fundamentales

Resumen

Dada la importancia que están adquiriendo en nuestro país y en el mundo entero las investigaciones sobre educación bilingüe y enseñanza de una L2, en este articulo, que sirve de introducción para el tema monográfico sobre la segunda lengua en la escuela, se pretende, en primer lugar, ofrecer una revisión de los términos fundamentales relacionados con estos temas, intentando precisar la significación de algunos de ellos para evitar ciertas confusiones que se producen con frecuencia.

En segundo lugar, se hace referencia a las características del sujeto, del ambiente y del programa que es necesario tomar en consideración para elaborar y evaluar un programa de educación bilingüe y de enseñanza de una L2.

En tercer lugar, se insiste en la importancia de realizar una evaluación correcta y completa de estos programas, para lo cual han de tenerse en cuenta todos los factores analizados previamente.