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Infancia Y Aprendizaje | 2005

Lectura, escritura y adquisición de conocimientos en Educación Secundaria y Educación Universitaria

Isabel Solé; Mar Mateos; Mariana Miras; Elena Martín; Núria Castells; Isabel Cuevas; Marta Gràcia

Resumen Este artículo presenta resultados de una investigación que identifica y caracteriza las tareas de lectura y escritura que se proponen y realizan para aprender. Se utilizó un diseño cuasiexperimental “ex post facto”, con tres variables independientes: rol (profesor, alumno), nivel educativo (primero y segundo ciclo de ESO, Bachillerato y Universidad) y dominio de conocimiento (social, natural). Las variables dependientes fueron la frecuencia de las tareas y sus características. Las respuestas de 214 profesores y 646 alumnos a cuestionarios fueron sometidas a diversos análisis estadísticos. Los resultados muestran que las tareas favorecedoras del aprendizaje constructivo son escasas, y en general, un panorama más tradicional de lo esperable.


Studies in Higher Education | 2007

Reading and writing tasks on different university degree courses: what do the students say they do?

Mar Mateos; Ruth Villalón; María José de Dios; Elena Martín

The aim of the study was to examine reading and writing tasks as learning tools in higher education in Spain. The participants were 171 undergraduates from three different university degree courses. The data were gathered through a questionnaire that explored the kind of tasks carried out by the students, their perception of different aspects of the tasks they perform, and the conditions in which they perform them. The article presents the most relevant differences found, taking into account the type of course being studied. The findings suggest that the most common tasks are still those aimed at knowledge reproduction. Nevertheless, students of history differ from students of psychology and biology in that they carry out some of the tasks requiring writing and discussing on the basis of reading multiple texts to a greater extent.


European Journal of Psychology of Education | 2009

Synthesising Information from Various Texts: A Study of Procedures and Products at Different Educational Levels.

Mar Mateos; Isabel Solé

The production of written syntheses, which requires reading various sources and integrating information from these sources into one’s own text, has been characterised as a potentially useful task for promoting constructive learning. This article describes research aimed at examining and characterising written syntheses and the processes involved in producing them.A case study was carried out of 45 students from four different educational levels (ranging from secondary school to university) performing synthesis tasks set by their teachers. An analysis was made of the synthesis tasks set and the syntheses produced, the prototypical procedures carried out at each educational level, and the quality of the written products.The results corroborate the view that producing syntheses is difficult even for university students with a high degree of reading and writing competence. They also show that the difficulty level of the texts and tasks set by the teachers is generally high and that this difficulty increases as students go up the educational ladder. It was found that the younger students adopted more sequential procedures, whereas more experienced students employed more recursive approaches. It was concluded that there is a need to teach students the epistemic uses of reading and writing.RésuméL’élaboration d’un texte de synthèse, qui exige de lire et d’intégrer l’information provenant de diverses sources dans un texte propre, a été caractérisée comme étant une tache potentiellement adéquate pour promouvoir l’apprentissage constructif. Cet article est la description d’une recherche dont les objectifs prétendaient découvrir et caractériser les productions écrites ainsi que les processus impliqués dans l’élaboration de la synthèse. Pour cette recherche, une étude de cas a été menée sur 45 étudiants de quatre niveaux d’enseignement différents (depuis l’enseignement secondaire jusqu’à l’Université) qui réalisaient des taches de synthèse proposées par leur professeur. On a analysé les textes ainsi que les taches de synthèse proposés, les procédures de réalisation prototypiques de chaque niveau d’enseignement, et la qualité des productions écrites. Les résultats corroborent l’idée de la difficulté de la synthèse, y compris pour des étudiants d’université et lorsque la compétence en lecture et en écriture est élevée. Ils montrent parallèlement que la difficulté des taches et des textes proposés par les professeurs est en général élevée, et que cette difficulté augmente avec le niveau d’enseignement. On observe que les élèves les plus jeunes adoptent des procédures plus séquentielles, alors que les plus expérimentés sont plus récursifs. On conclut par la nécessité d’enseigner aux élèves et étudiants les usages épistémiques de la lecture et de l’écriture.


Estudios De Psicologia | 2001

En busca del constructivismo perdido: concepciones implícitas sobre el aprendizaje

María del Puy Pérez Echeverría; Mar Mateos; Juan Ignacio Pozo; Nora Scheuer

Resumen El punto de partida de este trabajo ha sido analizar los diferentes significados atribuidos al término constructivismo y las concepciones implícitas subyacentes sobre el aprendizaje y la enseñanza. De la misma manera que existe cierta confusión en la utilización de este término por psicólogos, educadores y otros académicos, también parece haber cierta confusión y una excesiva atribución de características constructivistas a distintas concepciones sobre el aprendizaje y la adquisición de conocimientos. Una manera de analizar las diferencias tanto entre estas teorías científicas como en las personales es analizar los supuestos epistemológicos, ontológicos y causales que subyacen a los distintos tipos de teorías. La búsqueda de las características constructivistas y de los métodos que permitan diferenciar un tipo de teorías de otros nos sirve de guía en este artículo para una revisión de los trabajos sobre concepciones del aprendizaje.


Educational Psychology | 2015

High school boys’ and girls’ writing conceptions and writing self-efficacy beliefs: what is their role in writing performance?

Ruth Villalón; Mar Mateos; Isabel Cuevas

This study investigated the conceptions about writing and writing self-efficacy beliefs held by high school students in relation to the students’ gender as well as their associations with writing achievement. The results show that female students have more sophisticated writing conceptions than their male counterparts but no gender differences were found in writing self-efficacy beliefs. In addition, results reveal that writing self-efficacy beliefs and gender play an important role in predicting writing performance and that writing performance is moderated by students’ writing conceptions. Educational implications and further research are discussed.


Infancia Y Aprendizaje | 2010

Ni contigo ni sin ti…Las relaciones entre cognición y acción en la práctica educativa

Juan Ignacio Pozo; Elena Martín; M. Puy Perez-Echeverria; Nora Scheuer; Mar Mateos; Montserrat de la Cruz

Resumen El artículo presenta algunas reflexiones acerca de las relaciones entre la teoría y la práctica educativas suscitadas a partir de la lectura del artículo de Clarà y Mauri (2010). Se propone enmarcar esta relación dentro de un problema más general de la psicología: las relaciones entre cognición y acción. Se argumenta asimismo la importancia de definir la naturaleza representacional desde la que se postulan estas relaciones sobre todo en lo relativo al carácter implícito-explícito de las mismas, por su importancia teórica y por sus repercusiones para la intervención en la formación docente. La explicita- ción—vía para pasar del conocimiento práctico a la teoría—debe completarse con un proceso de implicitación o naturalización de los conocimientos teóricos construidos a través de la reflexión.


Cultura Y Educacion | 2015

Faculty and student representations of academic writing at Spanish universities / Las representaciones de profesores y estudiantes sobre la escritura académica en las universidades españolas

Montserrat Castelló; Mar Mateos

Abstract Research on academic writing has been the focus of several international publications, seminars and conferences during the last decades. However, knowledge of the practices and conceptions, along with the status of writing in higher education, is quite disparate depending on the contexts and traditions. In this paper, we survey the research on representations of academic writing internationally as well as the background of the European Writing Survey (EUWRIT), which has two versions, one targeted at students and the other at faculty, both of which were used in our research project. This paper explains the rationale of the scales and describes the items and the international underpinnings which endorse their development. Then, the characteristics of the sample, which were shared by all the studies included in this special issue, are outlined. Participants were 1,044 students and 280 faculty in different disciplines at nine Spanish universities. The theoretical structure and reliability of each of the scales are analysed. The paper ends with the descriptive general results regarding faculty and students and the differences observed based on some characteristics of participants from different disciplines.


Archive | 2014

Writing a Synthesis from Multiple Sources as a Learning Activity

Mar Mateos; Isabel Solé; Elena Martín; Isabel Cuevas; Mariana Miras; Núria Castells

This chapter focuses on how hybrid tasks can be better used within education to promote learning. It begins with an examination of the epistemic potential of synthesis and hybrid tasks in general. Writing a synthesis from multiple sources is a hybrid task with a high potential for fostering learning. The chapter deals with the complex processes involved in writing syntheses from multiple texts. It analyses the differences in the ways students write syntheses and the difficulties they have with such tasks at different educational levels, and presents some of the studies carried out on the processes involved in making syntheses and on the resulting products. Some of the methodological tools employed in analysing these processes are also examined. The chapter ends by describing several interventions to improve learning. These interventions help students at different educational levels to produce syntheses from multiple texts. Keywords: epistemic potential; hybrid tasks; learning; methodological tools; writing syntheses


Cultura Y Educacion | 2011

Enseñar a leer y escribir para aprender en la Educación Primaria

Isabel Martínez; Elena Martín; Mar Mateos

Resumen Uno de los principales retos de la Educación es que los alumnos aprendan a aprender por sí mismos. La lectura y la escritura pueden ser potentes herramientas para conseguir este objetivo. Por ello, en este estudio hemos diseñado y evaluado un programa de intervención en el que se enseñaba a los alumnos a realizar síntesis escritas a partir de la lectura de varios textos en la asignatura de Conocimiento del Medio. Se utilizó un diseño cuasiexperimental pre-post con un grupo cuasi control. Participaron 32 estudiantes de dos grupos de 6° de Primaria y sus respectivas tutoras. Los resultados mostraron que los alumnos a los que se aplicó el programa realizaron mejores productos escritos y utilizaron más procedimientos de lectura y escritura durante la realización de tareas de síntesis que aquéllos que no recibieron intervención. Además, la tutora que aplicó el programa lo valoró de forma muy positiva.


Cognition and Instruction | 2018

Improving written argumentative synthesis by teaching the integration of conflicting information from multiple sources

Mar Mateos; Elena Martín; Isabel Cuevas; Ruth Villalón; Isabel Martínez; Jara González-Lamas

ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to assess the effectiveness of 2 different types of intervention aimed at improving written argumentative synthesis by integrating conflicting information from different sources. Both interventions combined the use of a guide with collaborative practice, but one of them also included explicit strategy instruction. Only students who received additional explicit instruction showed an improved ability to integrate conflicting information and increased the number of arguments they selected from the sources.

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Elena Martín

Autonomous University of Madrid

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Isabel Cuevas

Autonomous University of Madrid

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Isabel Solé

University of Barcelona

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Núria Castells

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Juan Ignacio Pozo

Autonomous University of Madrid

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Isabel Martínez

Complutense University of Madrid

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Jara González-Lamas

Autonomous University of Madrid

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Nora Scheuer

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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