Catalina Patricia Morales-MurilloUniversidad Internacional de La Rioja | UNIR · Department of Education
Catalina Patricia Morales-Murillo
Profesora Contratada Doctora; Ph.D.
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Introduction
I am currently working on the EISR Project. This project focus on the authentic and functional evaluation of children's participation in everyday routines. We are using the MEISR 0-3 (McWilliam & Younggren, 2019) and MEISR 0-6 (McWilliam et al., 2020).
For more information visit: www.proyectoeisr.net
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Publications (24)
La educación infantil (EI en adelante) es una etapa única e importante en sí misma (Bodrova y Leong, 2005); las necesidades evolutivas de la infancia difieren considerablemente de otras etapas superiores (Bassok et al., 2016), por ello las prácticas y el contexto de EI debe adecuarse a las necesidades evolutivas propias de esta edad (Pianta et al.,...
This study evaluated the functioning of children in early childhood education classroom routines, using the 3M Functioning in Preschool Routines Scale. A total of 366 children aged 36 to 70 months and 22 teachers from six early childhood education centers in Spain participated in the study. The authors used the Rasch model to determine the item fit...
La LEY 9/2018, de 24 de abril, supone un punto de inflexión, pues las personas con discapacidad no quedan excluidas del sistema general educativo desconociendo cómo asegurar la inclusión de todos los niños y niñas y en todos los niveles de habilidad. Este artículo presenta los resultados de una revisión sistemática basada en la evidencia para ident...
Child interactions with the environment (adults, peers, materials) constitute the engine for development and learning, especially in early stages of development. Emotionally secure, responsive, and contingent interactions with adults and peers promote emotional, cognitive, and social development. Interpersonal interactions facilitate the acquisitio...
Engagement of children in preschool classroom routines relates to children’s development and acquisition of competencies. Studies outside the Spanish context found children’s engagement levels differ among classroom routines. We studied the differences of children’s frequency of engagement with adults, peers, and materials, and the sophistication l...
Desde el año 2009 el Centro de Atención Temprana y Educación Infantil l´Alquería UCV, se compromete a brindar apoyo y educación a todos los niños de 0-a 6 años, con especial énfasis en aquellos que presentan o están en riesgo de discapacidad y a sus familias. De tal forma se unen los servicios propios de la Atención Temprana (AT) y los programas de...
Emotional regulation, understood as the skills and strategies needed to influence and/or modify the emotional experiences, has a very remarkable implication within numerous emotional and behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence. In recent years there has been a significant increase in research on emotional regulation, however, the results...
In the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education, emphasis is placed on the child, the environment, and the teacher. In this chapter, we review principles about school and classroom environments and current methods for assessing these environments. We focus on the physical and the social characteristics of these environments as well as th...
This study looked at the effect of mother’s educational level, child emotional difficulties, peer interactions, age, and gender on children’s sophistication level of engagement. Eighty-six randomly selected children, aged between 36 and 72 months, and 20 teachers from 5 early childhood education centers in Valencia, Spain, participated in the study...
This study evaluated the quality of early childhood education (ECE) environments, the quality of teacher-child interactions and the duration of free play in 22 ECE classrooms in the Valencian Community, Spain. Twenty-two ECE teachers of four- and five-year-old preschoolers participated in the study. The quality of ECE environments and teacher-child...
El Real Decreto 1630/2006 de enseñanzas mínimas de educación infantil en España
establece tres áreas de contenido (1) conocimiento de sí mismo y autonomía personal,
(2) conocimiento del entorno y (3) lenguajes: comunicación y representación. Dichos
contenidos deben ser considerados por las comunidades autónomas para la elaboración
del currículo de...
Family quality of life (FQoL) has become one of the main outcomes of services for people with disabilities and their families, especially in early intervention, which nowadays is all about families. In this article, we analyze and validate the psychometric properties of the FEIQoL scale with Spanish families in early intervention, through Rasch ana...
Este estudio exploratorio evalúa la relación entre la calidad global del entorno de infantil, el estilo de enseñanza docente y el tiempo que los niños dedican a las diferentes actividades. Participaron en el estudio 22 maestros de educación infantil de la Comunidad Valenciana. Utilizamos la escala ECERS-3 para la valoración de la calidad global del...
Se valoró el funcionamiento de los niños y las niñas en las rutinas de educación infantil con la escala de evaluación auténtica 3M. En el estudio participaron 366 niños y niñas con edades entre los 34 y 72 meses y 22 maestras y maestros de centros de educación infantil en España. Se analizó si la dificultad de los ítems de la escala se adecuaba al...
Engagement in classroom activities is relevant for the development and learning of children and adolescents with and without disabilities. Although researchers in Spanish speaking countries are studying the construct of engagement, a need prevails to present a synthesis in Spanish language on the onset and evolution of engagement. This article pres...
Family quality of life (FQoL) is considered one of the aims of early intervention (EI) services and a good indicator of service quality. Families were recruited from EI centers in 12 of 17 communities (states) in Spain. This study describes the FQoL of 250 Spanish families with children aged 0 to 6 years in EI services during a family-centered impl...
This article presents a pilot study of the 3M Preschool Routines Functioning Scale (3M) with Spanish children. Twenty teachers and 285 children, from 6 early childhood education centers in Valencia, Spain, participated. The teachers completed one 3M scale on each child in their classrooms. We studied the internal consistency of the scores of the sc...
The relationship between coping strategies of mothers of children receiving early intervention services and parenting stress was studied. A total of 144 mothers from 17 early intervention centers located in the Valencian Community, Spain, participated of the study. Mother’s mean age was 35.6 years (SD = 4.10) and children’s mean age was 2.71 years...
RESUMEN: La implicación de los niños en las rutinas diarias es uno de los tres dominios funcionales que facilitan su aprendizaje. Los niños aprenden cuando pueden funcionar en las actividades diarias, de modo que pueden participar e implicarse en las tareas, y aprovechar las oportunidades de aprendizaje que se les ofrecen en ellas de manera inciden...
RESUMEN: Al utilizarse los enfoques basados en la evidencia científica u otras innovaciones eficaces en el ámbito educativo, las evaluaciones de fidelidad miden la presencia y la fuerza de la práctica que se desea implementar en el día a día. Estas evaluaciones, están diseñadas para ayudar a detectar tanto la instrucción relevante como el estado de...
Resumo El nivel de información y apoyo que reciben las familias a través de servicios de intervención temprana con un enfoque centrado en la familia, las empodera para crear un contexto que procure un desarrollo social, físico, y emocional positivo para los niños y niñas. La implementación de leyes y políticas sociales puede facilitar o inhibir el...
We investigated youths’ social competencies, self efficacy, civic engagement, and ecological values in Tanzania, Uganda, and Costa Rica, which are popular tourist destinations for biodiversity of plant and animal life as well as unique geological and archeological characteristics. We compare findings from separate studies conducted over the past de...
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El objetivo de este proyecto es analizar el impacto en familias y niños en servicos de atención temprana tras la implementación con fidelidad de buenas prácticas , como las articuladas desde el Modelo Basado en Rtuinas (McWilliam, 2010, 2016).
The 3M Preschool Routines Functioning Scale is a 25-item scale that evaluates child functioning among common preschool classroom routines. It is completed by the teacher. It has been developed base on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health(ICF, WHO, 2007) and McWilliam 's (1996) three foundations of learning (i.e., engagement, independence and social relationships). This project aims to validate this scale for Spanish children, aged between 36 and 71 months, and attending preschool classrooms.
We are currently conducting this study in Valencia, Spain. It looks at children’s engagement across preschool classroom routines and its relationship to child-related variables (i.e. developmental level and emotional strengths/difficulties), as mediated by teachers’ teaching style and classroom quality.
Researchers: Catalina Morales-Murillo, Dr. Maria Dolores Grau-Sevilla, Dr. Robin McWilliam
