David Álvarez-García

David Álvarez-García
  • Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad)
  • University of Oviedo

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El CUVE3-EP y el CUVE3-ESO son dos cuestionarios diseñados para analizar la frecuencia con la que el alumnado considera que aparecen diferentes tipos de violencia escolar, protagonizada por los estudiantes o el profesorado de su clase. El CUVE3-EP fue contrastado y baremado con 1041 estudiantes de tercer ciclo de Primaria, pertenecientes a 20 centr...
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Las redes sociales se han convertido en un contexto de gran influencia en la socialización, el aprendizaje y la formación de la personalidad de infantes y adolescentes. El presente trabajo parte de dos objetivos. Por un lado, conocer la prevalencia de uso de redes sociales en una muestra de preadolescentes españoles, analizando qué redes sociales u...
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Background: The Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) is used all over the world to identify metacognitive components that are relevant to learning. However, there is not enough evidence confirming its factorial structure or the suitability of its Shortened Version, proposed by various authors. Also, to date, the MAI has not been validated in th...
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Introduction: Cyberbullying is a complex phenomenon that has significant consequences for the victims. Understanding it requires a systemic-ecological approach, aiming to identify both individual and contextual predictors. During adolescence, peer group influence becomes particularly important, especially the influence of classmates, who spend much...
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Background: This study sought to analyse the metric properties of the scores obtained with an adaptation of the Student Bystander Behaviour Scale (SBBS; Thornberg & Jungert, 2013) in Spanish primary-school students and to examine the types of responses students reported as witnesses to school bullying, along with their relationship to empathy. Me...
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Resumen La convivencia escolar refiere una de las dificultades a resolver en el ámbito académico. El estudio plantea analizar las propiedades psicométricas de la escala M-EP, adaptado a la República Dominicana, investigar la percepción de normas de convivencia escolar por parte de los estudiantes de la comunidad educativa de Santo Domingo, y su inf...
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This study has two objectives: (1) Identify profiles of victimization in adolescence, depending on the levels of offline or online peer aggression suffered, along with the prevalence of each profile; and (2) Analyse the association of the victimization profiles with adolescents’ social anxiety and self-esteem. The sample was comprised of 3120 adole...
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The objective of this study was to examine the effect of Mindkeys Training, a mindfulness-based educational intervention, on attention, self-control, and aggressiveness in third-year primary school pupils. In order to achieve this aim, a switching replications design was used. Two groups of third year primary students (nGE1 = 40; nGE2 = 33), aged b...
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This study has three objectives: to examine whether adolescents who perceive themselves as overweight differ from others in terms of offline victimization at school, cybervictimization, self-esteem, and difficulties relating to peers; to examine the possible effects of offline and cybervictimization on self-esteem and difficulties relating to peers...
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Adolescence is an especially risky phase for the appearance of antisocial behaviors. Antisocial behavior produces significant individual and social harms, so it is important to provide keys for prevention and treatment. To do that, it is essential to identify the main predictors. The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of family (affec...
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Adolescence is an especially risky phase for the appearance of antisocial behaviors. Antisocial behavior produces significant individual and social harms, so it is important to provide keys for prevention and treatment. To do that, it is essential to identify the main predictors. The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of family (affec...
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Bullying has important negative consequences for victims. Therefore, it is essential to develop measures for their prevention or, where appropriate, early detection. In this sense and based on the available scientific evidence, it is essential to identify its main risk factor or protection variables. Main objective of this study is to identify the...
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The aim of this work is to analyze the relationship between parental control and cyber-victimization in adolescence, considering the possible mediating effect of impulsivity, and high-risk internet behavior. To that end we analyzed the responses of 3360 adolescents aged between 11 and 18 (M = 14.02; SD = 1.40), from Asturias (Spain), to four previo...
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Objectives: To design and validate a questionnaire intended for assessing parental control of Internet-usage by adolescents; 2) To determine to what extent parents use the types of parental control analysed, according to the adolescents; 3) To examine possible differences based on adolescents'age: And 4) To analyse possible differences between boys...
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Magnitude comparison skills have been related to mathematics competence, although results in this area vary. The current study aimed to describe the performance of 75 children (aged 4–5 years) in two comparison tasks; and examine the strength of the relationship between each of the two tasks and mathematics competence level (MCL). Participants were...
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Una de las claves para un desarrollo psicosocial saludable es tener amigos y sentirse aceptado por las personas que para uno son significativas. Sin embargo, existe un porcentaje significativo de estudiantes que son rechazados por sus iguales, lo cual puede conllevar importantes consecuencias negativas para su bienestar y desarrollo. Las causas por...
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Background: Research on school violence, which disserves the quality of the process of teaching and learning in schools, has increased in recent decades. The aims of this study were to identify the most prevalent types of school violence in Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE) according to the opinion of students, and to analyse differences in gen...
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One of the main predictors of being a victim of cyber-aggression is engaging in high-risk behaviours on the internet. The main objective of this research is to analyse the relationship between two types of parental control (restriction and supervision) and engagement in high-risk internet behaviours during adolescence. To that end, and as a seconda...
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The objective of this article is to analyze the predictive capacity of some individual, family, and community variables concerning the likelihood that a teenager will engage in aggressive behavior toward others using a mobile phone or the Internet, occasionally or intensely, controlling for the effect of potential confounding variables. To that end...
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This study aimed to describe and compare naming speed abilities in children diagnosed with either Reading Learning Difficulties (RLD) or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or comorbidity for both (ADHD+RLD). To examine the explanatory power of naming speed and ADHD symptomatology in predicting group-associations (while controlling for...
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The aim of this study is to present the psychometric properties of a brief questionnaire for the assessment of executive functioning in children and adolescents, which takes the form of a behavior rating scale, and designed to be answered by families. After a validation pilot study, the Executive Functioning Scale for Families (EFE-F in Spanish) wa...
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The goal of this study is to design a new self-report, targeting adolescents, called the Cybervictimization Questionnaire (CYVIC), to assess the extent to which the informant is a victim of aggression by mobile phone or Internet, and to analyze its factor and criterion validity and reliability in a sample of adolescents of Asturias (Spain). For thi...
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The objective of the present work is to analyse the prevalence of cyber-aggression and cyber-victimization among adolescents in Asturias (Spain) and to identify possible gender differences. To this end, 3,175 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years were randomly selected from the student population attending compulsory secondary education in Asturias and a...
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Mathematics learning difficulties (MLD) have a high prevalence within the child population. However, numerical abilities such as mathematics competencies and word problem solving are essential parts of the daily routine. In this chapter, first we present a brief description of the difficulties of students in mathematics, both in competencies and wo...
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Antisocial behavior is strongly associated with academic failure in adolescence. There is a solid body of evidence that points to parenting style as one of its main predictors. The objective of this work is to elaborate a reduced, valid, and reliable version of the questionnaire by Oliva et al. (2007) to evaluate the dimensions of parenting style a...
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Cybercrime is a growing and worrisome problem, particularly when it involves minors. Cyber-aggression among adolescents in particular can result in negative legal and psychological consequences for people involved. Therefore, it is important to have instruments to detect these incidents early and understand the problem to propose effective measures...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es contrastar la validez (factorial y de criterio) y fiabilidad (en términos de consistencia interna) del Cuestionario de cibervictimización (CBV), un autoinforme diseñado para medir en adolescentes en qué medida el informante es víctima de agresiones a través del teléfono móvil o Internet. Para ello, se aplicó el CBV a...
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This comparative study investigated the productivity and the process of written composition in students with and without disabilities between 8 and 16 years of age. Participants were assigned to four groups as follows: (a) 59 with both attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and writing learning disabilities (WLD), (b) 40 with ADHD, (c) 11...
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The aim of this work was to design and validate an adapted to Dominican Republic primary schools version of the CUVE3-EP questionnaire (Álvarez-García, Núñez & Dobarro, 2012). The questionnaire was applied to 1945 fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighthgrade students (aged from 11 to 17 years), from 14 primary schools in Santo Domingo. Confirmatory fac...
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This work into eight chapters, presents tools for teachers and psychologists to understand the conflicts between schoolars and proposes evaluación and intervention strategies from an individual and collective perspective.
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El objetivo de este trabajo es contrastar la validez (factorial y de criterio) y fiabilidad (en términos de consistencia interna) del Cuestionario de cibervictimización (CBV), un autoinforme diseñado para medir en adolescentes en qué medida el informante es víctima de agresiones a través del teléfono móvil o Internet. Para ello, se aplicó el CBV a...
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Bullying has negative effects on the victim, the aggressor and the bystanders. It is essential to determine the risk factors that can predict its onset in order to facilitate early identification of students at risk of becoming future victims or bullies and to optimize the design of measures for the prevention or treatment of bullying. Any measure...
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The aim of this work is to analyze the predictive value of several variables that may affect the likelihood of occasional or severe cibervictimization in adolescence, including sociodemographic (gender and age), psychological (self-esteem and shyness-social anxiety), educational (off-line school victimization, training and socio-emotional support,...
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This study analyzes differences in metacognitive skills and executive functioning between two groups of students (10-12 years) with different levels of metacognitive knowledge (high n = 50, low n = 64). Groups were established based on students’ score on a test of knowledge of strategy use. Metacognitive skills were assessed by means of self-report...
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Behavioral disorders at school have negative consequences for students´socialstudents´social development and academic achievement. A better understanding of their causes would help to develop more adapted prevention and intervention strategies. This study analyzes the association between behavioral disorders and executive dysfunctions in Elementary...
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One of the disorders that most affects school performance is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The criteria established by DSM distinguish three subtypes: inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive and combined. However, the expression of this disorder can be altered by its association with other disorders such as anxiety. The main goals of...
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Background: In this paper, we analyze the effectiveness of the Integrated Dynamic Representation strategy (IDR) to develop basic math skills. Method: The study involved 72 students, aged between 6 and 8 years. We compared the development of informal basic skills (numbers, comparison, informal calculation, and informal concepts) and formal (conve...
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The study of the subtypes of ADHD is made today from different perspectives. The aim of this study was to describe and compare these subtypes from the point of view of the executive functioning through the administration of the BRIEF scale in its parents form. The sample consisted of 109 participants (mean age = 10.6 years) assigned to four grou...
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El presente trabajo parte de dos objetivos: el primero, identificar los tipos de violencia escolar más habituales en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria de Asturias (España), en opinión del alumnado; el segundo, analizar las posibles diferencias en función del género y del curso del alumnado en cuanto al nivel de violencia escolar percibido. Para e...
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Background: The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions (BRIEF) scale, completed by families, is widely known in the assessment of executive functions in children and adolescents. However, its application is limited to English-speaking population. Method: This study analyzes the preliminary results from its application in a Spanish clin...
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Introduction. Student problem behaviors at school have a multicausal origin. Among the proposed causes are deficits in impulsivity control and other executive functions. Behavior rating scales are one of the most extensively used techniques to identify such deficits. They provide advantages, but they also have potential drawbacks. The halo effect i...
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The aim of this study is to present the psychometric properties of a rating scale of executive functioning for children and adolescents, designed to be answered by teachers. After a prior pilot analysis, the Executive Functioning Scale for Teachers (EFE-P) was tested with the teachers of 616 students aged 7 to 19, from 26 schools in Asturias (Spain...
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This study has two aims. The first one is to identify the most common types of school violence in Secondary Compulsory Education in Asturias (Spain), from the perspective of students. The second aim is to analyze the influence of student gender and year on their perceived level of school violence. To achieve these two objectives, the CUVE3-ESO ques...
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The aim of this work was to know students` perception about different techniques to improve the school coexistence. For it, there were evaluated 2597 students of the Compulsory Secondary Education by means of the Questionnaire M-ESO. The Questionnaire M-ESO allows evaluate the students` opinion about organizational aspect related to coexistence, co...
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This work has two aims: a) to evaluate to what extent consensus on classroom rules takes place in Asturian Primary Schools, in comparison with other school violence prevention strategies; b) to establish up to what point the consensus on classroom rules is associated to low levels of school violence, in comparison with the mere diffusion of rules a...
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Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos: a) Conocer en qué medida se utiliza el consenso de normas de aula en los centros de Educación Primaria asturianos, en comparación con otras estrategias para la prevención de la violencia escolar; y b) Estudiar hasta qué punto el consenso de normas de aula se relaciona con bajos niveles de violencia escolar, en comp...
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El objetivo de este trabajo fue diseñar y contrastar las propiedades psicométricas de un cuestionario dirigido a evaluar la percepción del alumnado de tercer ciclo de Educación Primaria acerca de la existencia o no en su clase de algunas medidas importantes para la mejora de la convivencia escolar. El cuestionario, denominado Cuestionario M-EP, fue...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship among Hyperactivityimpulsivity, Attention Deficit and participation as victim or aggressor in school violence situations. To achieve this objective, 398 Compulsory Secondary Education students were assessed using three ad hoc self-rating scales: Adapted ED AH, Aggression Questionnaire and Victimi...
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We present a study that investigates changes in the acquisition and development of morphological awareness in children from 5 to 7 years old. This investigation was carried out on three separate occasions over two academic years, in which morphological awareness was assessed according to two levels. The data indicate an increase in the morphologica...
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una preocupación cada vez ma-yor, tanto en el contexto escolar (Arco, Fer-nández, e Hinojo, 2004; García, Rodríguez, Pacheco, y Diez, 2009; Jarque, Tárraga, y Mirya, 2007; Mirya, García, y Soriano, 2005; Weiler, Bernstein, Bellinger, y Waber, 2000), como en el ámbito clínico (López-Vi-llalobos, Serrano, y Delgado, 2004; Servera, 1999), por los prob...
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El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la violencia a través de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. Para ello, se aplicó el Cuestionario de Violencia Escolar-Revisado (CUVE-R) a 638 estudiantes de 1º a 4º de ESO, pertenecientes a seis centros educativos de Asturias (España)...
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En este estudio, hemos conjugado desde el punto de vista empírico, dos aspectos que pueden tener una relación teórica consistente, DA en escritura y TDAH. Hemos realizado una revisión de estudios empíricos de los últimos años sobre el TDAH y las Dificultades de Aprendizaje DA en escritura, para ver el estado de la cuestión y enfocar directamente lo...
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The aim of this paper was to analyze violence through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Compulsory Secondary Education students. To achieve this objective, the School Violence Questionnaire-Revised was applied to 638 Compulsory Secondary Education students, from six high schools in Asturias (Spain). Results show that violence thro...
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The two main aims of this paper were firstly to design a new and extended version of the School Violence Questionnaire (CUVE) (Alvarez et al., 2006) and secondly to analyze empirically its construct validity. The School Violence Questionnaire - Revised (CUVE-R) was applied to 646 students of Compulsory Secondary Education. Two explicative models of...
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Due to its negative effects on the development of students, school violence has become an increasingly relevant phenomenon of study around the world. This investigation attempts to underscore the perception of Chilean secondary school students about the frequency of several types of school violence. In addition it tries to identify the differences...
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Una de las claves más importantes para prevenir o tratar problemas de convivencia en los centros educativos es conocer instrumentos, técnicas y procedimientos eficaces para ello. En este artículo se pretende analizar en qué medida los futuros maestros de Educación Infantil y Primaria dicen conocer ciertos recursos fundamentales para mantener un bue...
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Una de las claves más importantes para prevenir o tratar problemas de convivencia en los centros educativos es conocer instrumentos, técnicas y procedimientos eficaces para ello. En este artículo se pretende analizar en qué medida los futuros maestros de Educación Infantil y Primaria dicen conocer ciertos recursos fundamentales para mantener un bue...
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Academic failure and school coexistence are two of the main challenges of international education. The main aim of this work is to study the relationship between school failure and violence in Secondary Education. To achieve this objective, we applied the School Violence Questionnaire (“Cuestionario de Violencia Escolar” - CUVE) to a sample of 1742...
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Understanding writing as a recursive tool, we pretends explore theoretical base of the principal different models of writing, and also how these models are related to Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We hope to establish a thoughtful connection between writing and the difficulties of ADHD, due to the scarcity of literature on th...
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Understanding writing as a recursive tool, we pretends explore theoretical base of the principal different models of writing, and also how these models are related to Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We hope to establish a thoughtful connection between writing and the difficulties of ADHD, due to the scarcity of literature on th...
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Based on the current Spanish legislation on education, high abilities are included in the frame of educational, specific needs calling for educational support. In this study, we develop a specific proposal, based on a curriculum adaptation (exemplified in the area of Spanish Language) for gifted students. This proposal is aimed at promoting a balan...
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En base a la legislación educativa española vigente, las altas capacidades se incluyen en el marco de las necesidades educativas específicas de apoyo educativo. En el presente estudio ejemplificamos una propuesta de adaptación curricular individual para alumnos con altas capacidades, que pretende promover el desarrollo equilibrado de los objetivos...
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The aims of this work were to evaluate the knowledge that pre-service teachers have about resources for dealing with school violence; to assess their satisfaction about training received in this regard; and to identify the impact of satisfactory training and teaching experience on this knowledge. To achieve these objectives, 126 students of the las...
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One of the disorders that affects school performance the most is isolated attention deficit disorder or attention deficit associated with hyperactivity or impulsivitydisorder. This disorder poses difficulties to the students themselves, both in the verbal area and in reasoning and calculus, as well as to their teachers, as a consequence of the stud...
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El TDAH es un trastorno del desarrollo complejo y difícil de diagnosticar, que se agrava aún más cuando tenemos en cuenta sus problemas solapados y comórbidos. Problemas que, la investigación internacional está demostrando sobradamente. Se ha descrito el 80% de solapamiento con 2, 3 o más trastornos del desarrollo, u otros como las dificultades de...
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En esta investigación, se pretende conocer las diferencias entre alumnos con TDAH y dificultades de aprendizaje en escritura en una evaluación de atención, memoria operativa y estilos cognitivos. Se parte de una muestra de alumnos diagnosticados con TDAH, con edades relativas a prácticamente toda la etapa escolar obligatoria. Para, posteriormente,...
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The aim of this study was to test an intervention program to improve school coexistence in Secondary Education. The intervention program consisted of ten units for the training of students in conflict resolution. It was applied to classroom groups of first cycle of Compulsory Secondary Education, second cycle of Compulsory Secondary Education and B...
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The aim of this study is to supply information on the effects of strategic training in the area of mathematics (1) on the real level, as well as the perceived competence in terms of the skills the students show to select, organise and produce information and (2) their attitude and motivation towards working in this area of the curriculum. 104 stude...
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En: Psicothema Oviedo 2007, v. 19, n.4 ; p. 591-596 Es posible aprender a atender? En el presente artículo se informa del desarrollo, aplicación y contrastación de un programa de intervención para la mejora de la atención selectiva y sostenida en estudiantes de 5 a 19 años, todos escolarizados y con dificultades para la realización de los aprendiza...
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Aprende a Resolver Conflictos (ARCO) es un programa para enseñar al alumnado a abordar de forma adecuada sus conflictos cotidianos dentro y fuera del aula. Para ello, los estudiantes deben conocer el proceso y las habilidades necesarias para negociar, mediar o consensuar en grupo. También deben tener la posibilidad de practicar lo aprendido ante co...
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Conflict management in schools applying integrated programs. Conflict arises when there is a collision of interests or when two or more people strive for goals or means which are perceived as incompatible. These collisions or controversies, when they arise between understanding persons, can be undertaken by mediation to reach an agreement or by dif...
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AbstrAct Hyperactivity-impulsivity and attention deficit as predictors of involvement in school violence situations. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship among Hyperactivity-Impulsivity, Attention Deficit and participation as victim or aggressor in school violence situations. To achieve this objective, 398 Compulsory Secondary Educa...
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Se muestra la línea de intervención para la mejora de la convivencia desde el ámbito escolar. Se ofrece el marco teórico, siete unidades formativas y orientaciones para la puesta en marcha de cuatro estrategias reseñadas previamente, así como un cuestionario para la evaluación de la convivencia escolar y orientaciones para su aplicación y análisis,...
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El fracaso académico y la convivencia escolar son dos de los principales retos educativos a nivel internacional. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre fracaso escolar y violencia en los centros de Educación Secundaria. Con este fin, se aplicó el Cuestionario de Violencia Escolar (CUVE) a 1742 estudiantes de siete centr...

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