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Irene Campos-Sánchez; Eva María Navarrete-Muñoz; Dries S. Martens; Isolina Riaño-Galán; Aitana Lertxundi; Sabrina Llop; Mónica Guxens; Cristina Rodríguez-Dehli; Nerea Lertxundi; Raquel Soler-Blasco; Martine Vrijheid; Tim S. Nawrot; John Wright; Tiffany C. Yang; Rosie McEachan; Kristine Bjerve Gützkow; Vaia Lida Chatzi; Marina Vafeiadi; Mariza Kampouri; Regina Grazuleviciene; Sandra Andrusaityte; Johanna Lepeule; Desirée Valera-Gran – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: To explore the association between telomere length (TL) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children at 6-12 years. Method: Data from 1,759 children belonging to the HELIX project cohorts and the Asturias, Gipuzkoa and Valencia cohorts of INMA project were included. TL was determined by blood sample using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetic Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mothers
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Jaime León; Fernando Martínez-Abad – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Grade retention is an educational aspect that concerns teachers, families, and experts. It implies an economic cost for families, as well as a personal cost for the student, who is forced to study one more year. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of course repetition on math, science and reading competencies, and…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Scores, Foreign Countries
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Costanza Tortú; Irene Crimaldi; Fabrizia Mealli; Laura Forastiere – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Policy evaluation studies, which assess the effect of an intervention, face statistical challenges: in real-world settings treatments are not randomly assigned and the analysis might be complicated by the presence of interference among units. Researchers have started to develop methods that allow to manage spillovers in observational studies;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Causal Models
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Chengxin Zhang; Bochen Jia – Discover Education, 2024
Background: In the contemporary recent education landscape, an inventive paradigm known as "STEAM" has emerged, which augments the erstwhile STEM framework by incorporating the dimension of "Art". STEAM endeavors to enhance students' capacities for creativity, innovation, and design thinking. Among the various forms of artistic…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Visual Arts, Journal Articles
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Ibarra-Sáiz, María Soledad; Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregorio; Boud, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Learning is not just determined by the curriculum, but by how it is assessed. This article focuses on the analysis of the role played by the quality of assessment tasks on learning in undergraduate courses. During two successive academic years, information was collected on the views of students on the assessment activities and practices that they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Learning, Student Attitudes
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Morera, Yurena; León, José A.; Escudero, Inmaculada; de Vega, Manuel – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Visual Stimuli
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Pérez, Andrea; Collado, Jesús; del Mar García de los Salmones, María; Herrero, Ángel; San Martín, Héctor – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
This paper explores a causal model, using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), in order to understand how the perceived effectiveness of the 'flipped classroom' and students' satisfaction with this technique can be affected by students' engagement in the 'flipped classroom' activities as well as the complexity and task orientation of such…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Business Communication, Causal Models, Student Satisfaction
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de la Fuente, Jesús; Justicia, Fernando; Sander, Paul; Cardelle-Elawar, Maria – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
Introduction: The 3P and DEDEPRO Models predict interactive relationships among "presage," "process," and "product" variables through teaching and learning of self-regulation. The DEDEPRO Model has established different possibilities for interaction between student characteristics of self-regulation and external…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Self Control, Models
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Carlier, Sandra Idrovo; Llorente, Consuelo Leon; Grau, Marc Grau – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the level of awareness and implementation of family-responsible parameters: policies, enablers, practices, and culture, in Spanish and Latin-American companies, and how they impact work-life balance. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses data from different national IESE's Family-Responsible Employer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Work Relationship, Public Sector, Comparative Analysis
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Alonso-Tapia, J.; Asensio, F.; Lopez, I.; Carriedo, N.; Rycheck, F. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2007
The main "objective" of this work, carried out as part of a series aimed at identifying teachers' ideas on assessment, was to identify social science teachers' ideas on how causal understanding should be assessed when assessing "for" learning. After establishing the psychological model from which teachers' ideas should be…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Causal Models
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Berenguer, Jaime – Environment and Behavior, 2007
Previous studies have pointed out the importance of empathy in improving attitudes toward stigmatized groups and toward the environment. In the present article, it is argued that environmental behaviors and attitudes can be improved using empathic perspective-taking for inducing empathy. Based on Batson's Model of Altruism, it was predicted that…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Empathy, Causal Models, Animals
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Calvo-Mora, Arturo; Leal, Antonio; Roldan, Jose L. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2006
Purpose: To analyse the implicit relationships among enabler agents of the European excellence model to serve as a framework for the management and improvement of the quality in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses set out are based on the structure and meaning of the EFQM model and a review of the TQM…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Least Squares Statistics, Human Resources, Resource Allocation
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Cambra-Fierro, Jesus; Cambra-Berdun, Jesus – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate that students' self-evaluations contribute to improving academic results and life skills. Design/methodology/approach: Taking as reference a group of previously validated scales (part 1: measurement), a causal model is developed. Hypotheses are tested through the structural equations methodology by using the…
Descriptors: Methods, Causal Models, Administrator Role, Academic Achievement
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Catena, Andres; Perales, Jose C.; Maldonado, Antonio – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2004
The frequency of judgment effect is a special case of Response Mode effect in human covariation and causal learning. Judgment adjustment -to [Delta]P-, depends on the trial type preceding that judgment, but that effect is restricted to situations in which participants are asked to make their judgments with a high frequency. Two experiments further…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Environmental Influences
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers