The purpose of the study was to investigate whether teachers’ knowledge of student assessment was influenced by their gender and if it was related to their teaching experience (years in education). One hundred and twenty six physical education teachers (n=126)…

We develop a theory to explain the transition from stagnation to modern growth. We focus on the forces that shaped the evolution of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing across history. More specifically, we build a multisector model of…

The exponential increase of subjective, user-generated content since the birth of the Social Web, has led to the necessity of developing automatic text processing systems able to extract, process and present relevant knowledge. In this paper, we tackle the Opinion…

This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in…

This paper analyzes the learning experiences and opinions from a group of undergraduate students in a course about Robotics. The contents of this course were taught as a set of seminars. In each seminar, the student learned interdisciplinary knowledge of…

A mediados del siglo XVIII, las tradicionales residencias aristocráticas de la capital madrileña, denominadas casas principales, comenzaron a ser reemplazadas por un nuevo tipo de construcción de carácter doméstico, el palacio. Desde el presente artículo nos aproximaremos a ambas tipologías,…

In this second CFN (r) symposium I would like to stress the need to recover a way of thinking according to analogical logic as opposed to the (exhausted) univocal model of thinking that excludes science and refers to it only…

The practical difficulties of including students with disabilities and diverse educational needs into regular classrooms are apparent in all countries around the world. Successful implementation of the policy of inclusion depends largely on teachers having the knowledge, skills, and competency…

The relationships existing among the variation of five edafic factors (PH, instantaneous humidity and sand, clay and slime contents) and the location of taxa belonging to Polypogono monspeliensis-Nasturtietum officinalis subass. ranunculetosum scelerati, plant community growing on rice-fields from Valencia (E…

El proceso de Reforma ofrece la oportunidad a los centros de formación docente de poder diseñar los nuevos curricula sobre las bases del descubrimiento de sus necesidades, tantas veces denunciadas (Gimeno y Fernández, 1980). La formación en procedimientos de análisis…