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Education Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 3

March 2020 - 39 articles

Cover Story: This paper looks at the effects of an intervention, based on fluency oriented reading instruction (FORI), on the motivation for reading among struggling readers in Irish primary schools. The intervention took place in learning support settings in three primary schools located in urban educationally disadvantaged communities in North Dublin. The study, conducted through a pragmatic lens, employed a mixed methods design with a concurrent triangulation strategy. The study was guided by a reading motivation perspective, recognising the overlapping influences of teachers, parents and the individual student. Findings indicate that the FORI intervention had a positive impact on the motivation to read for struggling readers. In particular, the intervention was found to decrease students’ perceived difficulty with reading and increase their reading self-efficacy and orientation towards reading. View this paper.
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,104 Views
12 Pages

Gender and Digital Teaching Competence in Dual Vocational Education and Training

  • Jesús Sánchez Prieto,
  • Juan Manuel Trujillo Torres,
  • Melchor Gómez García and
  • Gerardo Gómez García

In recent decades, technological advances have been revolutionizing all areas of society, including the teaching resources and methodologies used in the world of education. Teachers are in the process of adapting to develop the digital skills they ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,026 Views
8 Pages

Dealing with Academic Difficulty in Medical School: A Pilot Study

  • Bunmi S Malau-Aduli,
  • Robin A Ray,
  • Teresa O’Connor,
  • Yolanda van der Kruk,
  • Faith O Alele and
  • Michelle Bellingan

Some students struggle through medical school and do not have the confidence to seek help. This pilot study sought to explore the challenges and needs of medical students experiencing academic difficulty. Semi-structured interviews and online surveys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
20,900 Views
13 Pages

This conceptual paper offers a reconsideration of the application of Novakian concept mapping to higher education research by putting to work the Deleuzian concept of the rhizome. We ask: what does thinking with Deleuze’s concepts offer researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,062 Views
17 Pages

The purpose of this study is to develop a thinking process model that reveals cognitive bias through analyzing students’ cognitive biases in processing experimental manuals. Twenty-two college students participated in the study. During the &ldq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,474 Views
18 Pages

This article presents the background to and rationale for a practice-focused model of educational change and improvement. In contrast to autocratic top-down models, this democratic and pragmatic approach begins with the educational concerns of teache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,563 Views
14 Pages

Teacher Training in Intercultural Education: Teacher Perceptions

  • Victoria Figueredo-Canosa,
  • Luis Ortiz Jiménez,
  • Cristina Sánchez Romero and
  • María Carmen López Berlanga

Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate teacher perceptions on the training received in intercultural education. Methods: The article presents a quantitative, non- experimental and ex-post-facto type of research; directed to inquire...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,936 Views
19 Pages

Research on digital learning environments has traditionally applied either an individual perspective or a social perspective to learning. Based on a literature review, we examined to what extent individual or social perspectives determined the learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,198 Views
21 Pages

Learning the wave-particle dualism of electrons and photons plays a central role in understanding quantum physics. Teaching it requires that the teacher is fluent in using abstract and uncommon terms. We inspect the lexical structures of pre-service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,485 Views
9 Pages

The purpose of this study is to conduct a non-systematic meth-analysis of a literature review by way of reviewing research that was found in any databases under the terms “urban health services” in order to document the major factors infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,439 Views
14 Pages

Social Media University Branding

  • Petra Maresova,
  • Jan Hruska and
  • Kamil Kuca

Globalization has increased the demands placed on higher education and increased competition among universities. In response, institutions of higher education have started to consider their online presence as a potential competitive advantage. The ai...

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