This study presents an innovative pedagogical approach where teachers become game designers and engage in creative teaching practices. Within co-design training workshops, 21 Spanish primary and secondary school teachers have developed their own Game-Based Learning (GBL) scenarios, especially tailored to their teaching contexts and students profiles. In total, teachers developed 13 GBL scenario...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that motivation is a key factor in the learning process as well as in school achievement. In essence, a number of researchers have highlighted the close link between motivation and achievement-related behaviours such as effort. AIMS The present study aims to acquire more specific information concerning the relations between competence beliefs, utility value and a...

This article discusses the impact of the advent of primary English on the development of College English in China. The advent of English in primary schools as a teaching subject has brought about a downward shift of focus of the English education system in China. Basic English education will be accomplished in primary and secondary schools. The part of basic English education conventionally ass...

MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION ARE CONCEPTUALLY INVERSELY RELATED Each division problem can be transformed into as a multiplication problem and vice versa. Recent research has indicated strong developmental parallels between multiplication and division in primary school children. In this study, we were interested in (i) whether these developmental parallels persist into secondary school, (ii) whet...

Transition to university involves adapting to a new academic and social environment. Recent research on this process indicates that many students experience at least some difficulties during this transition, but that this may be alleviated by various institutional measures designed to assist students with the transition, e.g. the fostering of peer study groups. In 1997, the Faculty of Science a...

This article presents a model evaluation plan conducted by occupational therapists that may be used to contribute information to the transition planning process in secondary school students with disabilities. Occupational therapists are not fully participating in transition services within secondary schools. One of the major obstacles to full participation identified in a previous research stud...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Few studies have explored the association between social context and suicidal ideation using multilevel models. This study examines how suicidal ideation in adolescence is related to school class composition. METHODS Data were obtained from the Young-HUNT 3 study (2006-2008), a population study of adolescents attending secondary school in the Norwegian county of Nord-...

The present study was undertaken to study of creativity in relation to TV viewing habits of secondary school students. The sample consists of 400 secondary school students of Rampur city. Verbal test of creativity and TV viewing habits questionnaire were used for this investigation. The result of this study shows that on some behalf TV viewing is negatively related to creativity but overall TV ...

This study examined the predictive effects of moral competence, prosocial norms and positive behavior recognition on school misbehavior among Chinese junior secondary school students. Results of multiple regression analysis showed that students were more likely to misbehave in school when they had lower levels of moral competence and prosocial norms, and when they perceived their positive behav...