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Marine Simon; Alexandra Budke – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
To tackle the growing challenges facing our societies, such as climate change, we need to understand scientific knowledge and methods. Developing scientific literacy in schools is therefore necessary. To do so, we need to be able to assess competencies associated with scientific literacy. Secondly, educators need meaningful tools which can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Secondary School Students, Geography Instruction
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Scheibling-Sève, Calliste; Gvozdic, Katarina; Pasquinelli, Elena; Sander, Emmanuel – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Proportional reasoning is a key topic both at school and in everyday life. However, students are often misled by their preconceptions regarding proportions. Our hypothesis is that these limitations can be mitigated by working on alternative ways of categorizing situations that enable more adequate inferences. Multiple categorization triggers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Cognitive Processes
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Larsen, Torill; Van Hoye, Aurelie; Tjomsland, Hege Eikeland; Holsen, Ingrid; Wold, Bente; Heuzé, Jean-Philippe; Samdal, Oddrun; Sarrazin, Philippe – Health Education, 2015
Purpose: The health promoting benefits of sport participation are under-utilized and should be further developed, particularly at the grassroots level. The purpose of this paper is to examine how grassroots coaches in youth football perceive their coaching practices after participating in a community-based coach education program aimed at…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Team Sports, Athletic Coaches, Workshops
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Darnis, Florence; Lafont, Lucile – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Within a socio-constructivist perspective, this study is situated at the crossroads of three theoretical approaches. First, it is based upon team sport and the tactical act model in games teaching. Second, it took place in dyadic or small group learning conditions with verbal interaction. Furthermore, these interventions were based on…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Team Sports, Physical Education, Learning Processes
Paccagnella, Marco – OECD Publishing, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data reveal significant age-related differences in proficiencies, strongly suggesting that proficiency tends to "naturally" decline with age. Age…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Surveys, Adults, Age Differences