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Sergio Cored-Bandrés; Marta Liesa-Orús; Sandra Vázquez-Toledo – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2025
The generalisation of learning is one of the main elements to take into account when carrying out an educational intervention. This process involves certain difficulties for the population with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In this sense, the aim of the present study is to evaluate the process of generalisation of skills related to the social…
Descriptors: Generalization, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intervention
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Jon Berastegui-Martínez; María Ángeles de la Caba-Collado; Núria Pérez-Escoda – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
The aim of this preliminary study was to evaluate the effects of two emotional education programmes in a charter school in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, on students' emotional competence and the social climate in the classroom. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest repeated measures design with a control group was utilized in the study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Development, Social Environment
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Robles-Bello, María Auxiliadora; Sánchez-Teruel, David; Valalencia-Naranjo, Nieves; Barba Colmenero, Francisca – SAGE Open, 2021
Background/Objective: Researchers have traditionally reported that individuals with Down syndrome possess a strength in their social development, yet the opposite occurs with Asperger's syndrome. Based on this premise, we sought to assess effectiveness of the social skills training program. Method: Thirty adolescents aged 11 to 14 years with Down…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Down Syndrome, Asperger Syndrome, Interpersonal Competence
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Salas-Román, Noelia; Alcaide-Risoto, Margarita – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2022
Introduction: The present study examined the effect of applying an emotional intelligence program on social-emotional competence and school coexistence to pupils in early childhood education. Method: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study was conducted with a non-equivalent control group. The sample consisted of 346 subjects, 173 5-year-old…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning, Preschool Children
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Díaz-Villabella, Sonia López; Gilar-Corbí, Raquel – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Through this study we tried to evaluate and improve the level of emotional competence of the students of a primary school. Emotional competence was evaluated by the teacher in 135 students using the Teacher Child Rating Scale of Hightower et al. [1986. The Teacher- Child Rating Scale: A brief objective measure of elementary children's school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Emotional Intelligence, Program Effectiveness, Emotional Development
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Martínez, M. Carmen Pichardo; Nieto, Alicia Benavides; López, Miriam Romero; García-Berbén, Trinidad – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: In recent decades, several studies provide scientific evidence of the benefits of preventive family intervention in early childhood. However, in the Spanish context there is a shortage of proven effective interventions designed for this population. After carrying out a pilot intervention with the universal family program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Relationship, Family Environment, Intervention
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Giménez-Dasí, Marta; Quintanilla, Laura; Ojeda, Vanesa; Lucas-Molina, Beatriz – Infants and Young Children, 2017
Romas are one of the largest minority groups in Spain and Europe, but no specific data on children's socioemotional learning are available. Our goal was to determine the level of socioemotional knowledge of a group of 4- and 5-year-old Roma children and to implement an intervention program at school. Forty-three Roma children participated…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Hervás Torres, Mirian; Fernández Martín, Francisco D.; Arco Tirado, José Luis; Miñaca Laprida, María Isabel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: The low productivity that prevailing in recent years in Higher Education requires urgently institutional responses aimed to improving quality of university education contributing to the development among students of key competences for lifelong learning. In this sense, the aim of this research was to explore the effects of an…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests
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Bonete, Saray; Calero, María Dolores; Fernández-Parra, Antonio – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Adults with Asperger syndrome show persistent difficulties in social situations which psychosocial treatments may address. Despite the multiple studies focusing on social skills interventions, only some have focused specifically on problem-solving skills and have not targeted workplace adaptation training in the adult population. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asperger Syndrome, Problem Solving, Intervention
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Alba, Guadalupe; Justicia-Arraez, Ana; Pichardo, M. Carmen; Justicia-Justicia, Fernando – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2013
Behavior problems are often observed in classrooms. The age at which problems appears is increasingly younger, and there are no interventions that ensure a reduction in such behavior problems among school age children. Research and previous evidence show the importance of social competence in this kind of prevention. Working with preschool and…
Descriptors: Prevention, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children
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García-López, L. M.; Gutiérrez, D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: One of the objectives of the new Spanish Education Act is for students to develop a series of social skills, largely derived from the ability variables of assertiveness and empathy. Sport Education is an instructional model that is deemed useful in the development of personal and social responsibility and social values. It requires…
Descriptors: Empathy, Foreign Countries, Athletics, Interpersonal Competence
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El Mansour, Bassou; Wood, Evan – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the training provided to US and European expatriates in Morocco, and subsequently build the body of knowledge for international HRD in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Design/methodology/approach: The study used the models of Black and Mendenhall and Mendenhall and Oddou, subdividing the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Cross Cultural Training
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Arco-Tirado, Jose L.; Fernandez-Martin, Francisco D.; Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The purposes of this study were, on one had, to determine the impact of a peer tutoring program on preventing academic failure and dropouts among first-year students (N = 100), from Civil Engineering, Economics, Pharmacy, and Chemical Engineering careers; while, on the other hand, to identify the potential benefits of such tutoring program on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests
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Orte, Carmen; Touza, Carmen; Ballester, Lluis; March, Marti – Educational Research, 2008
Background: This paper is the result of our interest in preventing adaptation problems (delinquency, academic failure and absenteeism at school, drug use, etc.) in young children and adolescents at risk, as well as the need to develop effective programmes adapted to the population in the Balearic Islands (Spain). Purpose: The objective of this…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Age
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Sanchez, A. M.; Rivas, M. T.; Trianes, M. V. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2006
This work describes the results of the "Programa de Desarrollo Social y Afectivo" [Social and Affective Development Program] (Trianes & Munoz, 1994; Trianes, 1996), under way during four years at a public school in a disadvantaged area Malaga, earmarked for special educational resources. The intervention is meant to improve classroom…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Public Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
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