Javier Corredor

National University of Colombia | UNAL · Department of Psychology

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Scarcity acts as a mental burden that disrupts how people process information and make decisions (Mullainathan and Shafir in Scarcity: Why having too little means so much. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013; Mani et al. Science 342:976–980, 2013). In this study, we replicated Mani et al.’s (Science 342:976–980, 2013) experimental design to explore whethe...

The Illusion of Explanatory Depth (IOED) occurs when people overestimate their ability to explain the causal mechanisms of natural or social processes. Prior research has attributed this metacognitive bias to confounding the understanding of abstract causal patterns with the comprehension of domain-specific mechanisms. However, this explanation doe...

Pedagogical change is imperative for historical memory education (HME). This chapter describes qualitatively an educational experience in HME that embeds document-based analysis in role-playing activities. Historical role-playing was used as a pedagogical resource, allowing the presentation of historical inquiry within narratives that are attractiv...

This article explores why certain types of conversations are effective to develop disciplinary knowledge during video game play while others are not. In particular, we analyze conversations among students playing an educational video game that focuses on the process of viral replication. To do so, we use an emergent qualitative coding strategy. In...

Audience Response Systems (ARS), also known as clickers, are wireless devices commonly used in instruction. The present study explored the effects of ARS on students’ performance in an introductory psychology course. The study also described the trajectories of students during the course. Participants in the experimental group used ARS to solve ten...

Este artículo describe los objetivos identitarios y los temas que los estudiantes universitarios (N=231) tratan en formato audiovisual en sus muros de Facebook. Para tal fin, se realizó un análisis de contenido de una muestra de 1514 publicaciones de los usuarios. Estas publicaciones fueron codificadas en términos de sus objetivos identitarios, de...

Audience Response Systems (ARS), also known as clickers, are wireless devices commonly used in instruction. The present study explored the effects of ARS on students’ performance in an introductory psychology course. The study also described the trajectories of students during the course. Participants in the experimental group used ARS to solve ten...

This article estimates the effects on depressive symptoms, family relationships, social support, and academic self-efficacy of participating in a forgivable loan program, using an instrumental variable (IV) estimation strategy. In particular, we estimate local average treatment effects (LATE) of program participation on these variables, using progr...

The paper explores the effect of nudges on dishonest academic behavior in a 3x4 factorial treatment design. Subjects had to throw a physical die 50 times, report the outcome and were given partial credit for their participation. 435 students were assigned to the following conditions: a) a nudge presenting an authoritarian instruction; 2) a nudge re...

Este documento presenta un instrumento para evaluar el conocimiento sobre el conflicto armado interno en Colombia. Esta constituido por 66 preguntas de opción múltiple con única respuesta y al final del documento se encuentran las respuestas a cada pregunta. Esta evaluación cuenta con adecuados estándares de confiabilidad y validez, resultado de su...

El libro Desarrollo del Pensamiento Histórico en la Escuela de la Colección Salud, Universidad y Sociedad de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud- UPTC, es un recurso científico para nutrir las discusiones y debates entre los investigadores y agentes educativos, alrededor de los avances, problemas, retos e innovaciones, en la investigación en el áre...

This study explores the relationship between factors related to the implementation of school reform in technology and variables related to students’ acceptance of technology, in particular, of tablets. In order to do this, 2659 students in 208 schools were surveyed using an instrument developed according to the unified theory of acceptance and use...

This article explores the black box of college adaptation and social integration of low SES students entering higher education under a forgivable loans program. It does so by studying a context of extreme educational and economic inequality. The magnitude of this study offers an unprecedented window to observe interactions between different social...

This study explores the effect of a learning experience on the love and personal preference for biology in a group of 32 fourth-grade children from a school in a Colombian city of approximately 200 thousand people between the ages of 9 and 10. The results are part of a study on the learning of taxonomy and biology in informal learning environments....

Este artículo de investigación describe una experiencia educativa en memoria histórica y los efectos de dicha experiencia sobre los niveles de conocimiento histórico y las actitudes en el área. En el texto se propone que la educación en memoria histórica debe combinar el desarrollo de elementos emocionales con otros asociados al razonamiento histór...

Este estudio explora el efecto de una experiencia de aprendizaje sobre el gusto y las preferencias personales hacia la biología de un grupo de 32 niños de cuarto grado de primaria de un colegio de una ciudad de aproximadamente 200 mil habitantes de Colombia en edades entre los 9 y 10 años. Los resultados hacen parte de un estudio sobre el aprendiza...

Currículo informativo-educativo, desarrolla una intervención en aula de clase en torno a la creación de nuevas estrategias para generar razonamiento histórico desarrollado por la línea de investigación de Educación, Cognición Aplicada y Medios (EDUCAMOS) de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Se realizó en el marco del proyecto de investigación:...

Background. Prior research suggests that video games function as spaces for informal interaction. In this way, they foster spontaneous conversation that supports gameplay. Such conversation can facilitate learning. In particular, conversations that connect gameplay with the learning materials have positive effects on learning. In this article, thos...

This study investigated the frequency of the use of tablets, places of use, mediation of use and the function of use of the applications utilized. For this purpose, a Likert Scale was presented in order to determine change perceived by students regarding methodological features: The role of the teacher and Interaction among students. A oneway ANOVA...

This study explores boys’ and girls’ relationships with math in Colombia, a society more sexiest than the firstworld countries in which most studies in the area have been conducted previously. The relation of boys and girls with math is explored explicitly through measures of attitudes and anxiety and implicitly through an IAT adapted to measure th...

p class="p1">En este artículo se analiza cómo los estudiantes de primaria y secundaria, en colegios rurales y urbanos, reconstruyeron la historia sobre la Independencia Colombiana. Se realiza una investigación observacional descriptiva con una medida transversal, la cual involucró una pregunta generativa de narración aplicada a 43 estudiantes, sele...

Este artículo de investigación da cuenta de un estudio cualitativo que usó el análisis de las narrativas para conocer cómo los textos escolares reconstruyen la Independencia de Colombia, y cómo esta reconstrucción se relaciona con las narrativas independentistas de los estudiantes en contextos socioculturales diversos. Se realizaron 21 entrevistas...

This article proposes a new of field of research in social sciences education: Historical Memory Education (HME). Despite the large amount of educational experiences following the end of violent conflicts and totalitarian regimes during the twentieth century, historical memory has not been recognized as a field in educational research. From a revie...

This paper explores whether social desirability affects the illusion of explanatory depth (IEOD) by comparing the magnitude of this illusion in topics with different levels of social desirability within several domains. This question was chosen because prior literature shows that social expectations about how much a person should know about a certa...

La realización de este estudio responde a la necesidad de diseñar ambientes académicos que mejoren la adquisición de los conceptos en ingeniería que resultan a veces abstractos y limitan su comprensión. Utilizando metodologías cualitativas, se explora cuáles son los principales factores que los estudiantes refieren cuando evalúan las clases de inge...

Technological literacy is a need for greater competitiveness and productivity in the population. But the current organization of school educational system does not facilitate the development of such skills and competences. The purpose of this research is to identify the effects stemmed from the implementation of a project-based learning program wit...

Digital Education Review-Number 30, December 2016-http://greav.ub.edu/der/ 207 Tecnología para la comunicación y la solución de problemas en el aula. Efectos en el aprendizaje significativo. Resumen El interés por aumentar el aprendizaje significativo es una preocupación para distintas líneas de investigación en el campo de la educación. Sin embarg...

Interest for increasing meaningful learning is a concern to various lines of research in the field of education. However, little is known about how this process can be facilitated by using technological resources. In this article, we want to explore how the use of technology, which fosters communication and problem solving in the classroom, is rela...

A large strand of research attempts to measure the impact of media and technology on the development of individuals. However, little is known about this impact on students’ career choice. The present research aims at studying how new media and technology usage affects students’ career decision-making. Specifically, this study evaluates the influenc...

This article aims at investigating the differences among three groups having distinct levels of experience in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), when solving a character design task in the videogame World of Warcraft (WoW), and when planning how to use the character during gameplay. These groups consisted of inexperienced pla...

While investment in technology for use in the classroom is increasing, studies still do not reveal significant improvements in learning. Investigations have shown that aligning the design of learning experiences with students' needs creates synergy in the teaching and learning classroom processes. This can be achieved through orchestration, the gui...

The Internet has created spaces for second-language learning that are fundamentally different from spaces available fifteen years ago. These new, Internet-enabled spaces allow for bilingual participation in complex shared social activities. Young people all over the world watch, listen, read and learn from content produced in languages different th...

Este texto es producto de un trabajo conjunto entre el grupo de in-vestigación "Estu dios sobre desarrollo socio-moral" de la Universi-dad Nacional de Colombia, el grupo "Estudios en psicología básica y aplicada para el desarrollo social" de la Corporación Universitaria Minu-to de Dios y la Universidad de Hannover (Alemania). Para el desarrollo de...

This article explores how learning biological concepts can be facilitated by playing a video game that depicts interactions and processes at the subcellular level. Particularly, this article reviews the effects of a real-time strategy game that requires players to control the behavior of a virus and interact with cell structures in a way that resem...

In the last two years, the introduction of social gaming – playing video games in the context of social media – has created new possibilities for playing and learning. Social games attract a huge playership that represents a different demographic than traditional video games. For this reason, it is worth asking whether or not they can be used for e...

This article examined the tradeoff between data analysis and simulations in the learning of statistics. In order to do this, the article compared two different interventions aimed at teaching statistics. One intervention used data analysis tools and focused on examples and long exercises that required students to interpret data. The other intervent...

Este artículo revisa el papel que el choque de tradiciones y la competencia entre diversas fuentes de legitimidadpuede tener en el éxito o fracaso de los procesos de formación docente y reforma escolar en e-learning. Medianteun estudio cualitativo, este artículo muestra cómo prácticas que son legítimas para el Ministerio de Educación nocoinciden ne...

The objective of this paper is to set the stage for a discussion of the status of the idea of psychological process within psychological explanations and descriptions, indicating some of its consequences for the teaching of psychology. It is argued that contemporary psychology espouses some form of modularity, which, in turn, reveals commitments to...

This article explores the effects that new information technologies have on the cognitive development and the construction of identity among Colombian adolescents. It first reviews the recent literature regarding changes in adolescent development and culture in the international context and illustrates such changes with various case studies. Specif...

This article explores the effects that new information technologies have on the cognitive development and the construction of identity among Colombian adolescents. It first reviews the recent literature regarding changes in adolescent development and culture in the international context and illustrates such changes with various case studies. Specif...

This study explores the effects of prior training in argumentationand of the pragmatic goals of an argumentative dialogueon the way people evaluate the evidence and explanationspresented in the dialogue. 122 university students, dividedinto two groups, participated in the study: a high traininggroup (n=43) composed by senior students that had taken...

This study explores the effects of prior training in argumentation and of the pragmatic goals of an argumentative dialogue on the way people evaluate the evidence and explanations presented in the dialogue. 122 university students, divided into two groups, participated in the study: a high training group (n=43) composed by senior students that had...

This study explores the effects of prior training in argumentation and of the pragmatic goals of an argumentative dialogue on the way people evaluate the evidence and explanations presented in the dialogue. 122 university students, divided into two groups, participated in the study: a high training group (n=43) composed by senior students that had...

p style="text-align: justify;">A partir del análisis de algunas concepciones éticas y del desarrollo psicológico se busca presentar la evolución de la teoría de Lawrence Kohlberg y de la psicología del desarrollo moral. Las posiciones deontológicas y formalistas de la filosofía moral determinaron las primeras conceptualizaciones en el estudio de la...

This article explores the role of both experimental social psychology and critical psychology in the process of social change. It presents the broader debate between both versions of social sciences, and subsequently the main issues that differenciate these two perspectives. By describing the differences between both perspectives, this article aims...

Este artículo explora el papel de la psicología social analíticay la psicología crítica en los procesos de transformación social.El artículo presenta el debate existente entre las versionescríticas y las versiones positivistas de las ciencias sociales.Posteriormente, se presentan los principales puntos de debateentre estas dos perspectivas con el o...

Starting from the analysis of some ethical conceptions and the psychological development we introduce the evolution of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory and the psychology of moral development. The deontological and formalist positions rooted in the moral philosophy shaped the first conceptualizations in the study of morals in psychology. Thereafter, and...

This dissertation explored the effects of two different interventions on the learning of statistics. Each intervention corresponded to a different conception of statistical learning and used a particular type of computer-tool. One intervention used data analysis tools and focused on authentic situations of statistical activity. The other interventi...

This article explores the influence of prior knowledge on the setting of goals and use of content in museum website visits. Goal setting is a crucial process in organizing the activities of surfers in open environments, such as museum websites, where surfers faced ill-defined tasks. To this end, 12 graduate students were asked to surf through two m...

We extend George W. Cobb's evaluative framework of statistics textbooks to six online instructional materials that exemplify the diversity of introductory statistics materials available on the Internet. Materials range from course Web sites with limited interactive capabilities to courseware and electronic textbooks that make extensive use of inter...