Jesús Paz-Albo

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Rey Juan Carlos University

In play, children often explore mathematical ideas that are vital for future learning. Children’s play also reveals gender differences in both colour and toy preferences. The authors examined how gender related colour preferences of 5-year-olds are related to preferences for math-specific games/toys and gendered beliefs about math. Spanish preschoo...

Children's math self-concepts-their beliefs about themselves and math-are important for teachers, parents, and students, because they are linked to academic motivation, choices, and outcomes. There have been several attempts at improving math achievement based on the training of math skills. Here we took a complementary approach and conducted an in...

The English version of the “Math and Me Survey” was developed to measure mathematical attitudes of elementary students. This study was used to translate, validate and examine the attitudes of Spanish students in the second and fourth grades of primary school. The translation-back translation procedure was adopted. A total of 81 students (42 boys an...

The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of embedding the computer-based 'Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Simulation Series' within teacher education curricula in higher education institutions in the US and in Spain. A quantitative survey design was used to explore student teachers' perceptions of the simulation experience. The sa...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the opinions of future teachers on their experience using Socrative exit tickets in the university classroom. For this purpose, the Socrative program was implemented as a learning tool within the education programs of two large universities in Spain, and a questionnaire was created by adapting instrume...

The emergence of COVID-19 in education posed a challenge for teachers around the world, who faced it with differing levels of knowledge, competences, and digital resources. The aim of this study is to ascertain the teachers’ (n = 930) perceptions on the use of technology in the classroom, the main challenges in education, and the teaching professio...

El bajo rendimiento en el área de las matemáticas parece ser una constante en los estudios nacionales e internacionales provocando que surjan nuevas metodologías e instrumentos para mejorar la competencia matemática. Monk es una plataforma basada en la psicometría que evalúa la aptitud matemática de estudiantes de primaria a través de tests adaptat...

Play, and especially free play, offers a unique opportunity for children to act with agency. Yet the regulated and routinized structure of early childhood education and care settings, impedes children’s agentic action which is limited by adult-imposed rules. The present cross-cultural study aims to explore the extent to which Early Childhood Educat...

Access to high-quality bilingual education is critical and has evolved in many different ways during the last decades. Given recent efforts to enhance bilingual education, it is important to examine the perceptions of the current education workforce who serve students in bilingual education programs. A hundred and sixty-four bilingual education pro...

This research investigates bilingual and study abroad college students' intercultural attitudes on their understanding of global competence at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). To achieve this goal, an ad hoc questionnaire was developed based on the OECD framework for global competence. A total of 203 college students (157 females, 46 male...

La Asociación de Padres «Las Jaras» residencia y centro ocupacional se trata de un recurso destinado a mujeres con discapacidad intelectual no gravemente afectadas. Definirlo y analizarlo no ha sido fácil debido a la falta de documentación no catalogada ni archivada, a excepción de aquella que se ha encontrado y que se aporta. Sin embargo, podemos...

El aprendizaje basado en la simulación se ha utilizado como una herramienta para mejorar la calidad de las experiencias educativas y está resultando tener un gran impacto en los estudiantes de todos los niveles educativos. Algunas universidades consideran los simuladores educativos como una alternativa para motivar y promover el aprendizaje signifi...

El presente estudio ofrece detalles en relación con la importancia de las actitudes hacia las matemáticas y su relación hacia el aprendizaje. Para ello se diseñó una investigación en la que participaron 95 estudiantes de segundo y cuarto de educación primaria de la Comunidad de Madrid. Todos los estudiantes cumplimentaron la encuesta “Math and Me S...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which affects all areas of life, has also affected children in need of education and care. It is of great importance to develop policies that take into account the best interests of children in this process. In this review article, the policies developed for early childhood education and care during the pandemic period in fiv...

Technology plays a large role in the daily experiences of young children. Presently, technology is used both to support and enhance ‘educational’ activities and in the context of children’s play. The aim of the present study is to understand how much time teachers in early childhood centres across 8 countries implemented technology into their class...

Twenty-first century learning and skills call for tertiary mobility students to be prepared with global skills, interculturality and global competence. Study abroad programs offer a context in which tertiary mobility students can potentially learn about global competence and intercultural communication. Although much work has been done on studying...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the brain dominance of prospective early childhood, elementary and secondary school teachers and whether their cognitive abilities are oriented towards some mental skills, as well as several aspects of their personality and behavior. Determining how brain dominance can affect the educators teaching...

La sociedad actual nos exige desarrollar la capacidad de adaptación a nuevos desafíos en un mundo globalizado. La integración de las personas con discapacidad intelectual es uno de los retos a los que nos enfrentamos y a veces no recibe la atención ni los apoyos necesarios. En este estudio de caso nos centramos en el análisis de la autopercepción d...

This article offers an examination of how learning two languages from an early age may be an asset to children’s development. Although discourses on language learning development are not new, it is crucial to understand the benefits of being bilingual from a very early age. At the interface of bilingual development, the present review article provi...

This chapter was originally published in 2018 as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care, 188(5), pp. 613–623.

Las metodologías activas han favorecido la integración de herramientas digitales en el aula y esto ha supuesto la necesidad de transformar los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Para ello es imprescindible introducir la innovación educativa en la formación de futuros educadores dentro de este entorno interactivo y así poder propiciar el cambio educ...

La actitud hacia las matemáticas es un tema que ha sido objeto de investigaciones en el ámbito educativo durante los últimos años. Uno de los aspectos que más llama la atención es cómo esta actitud positiva va descendiendo, especialmente entre las chicas, con el paso de los cursos académicos. Informes como PISA revelan que, a diferencia de las chic...

Increased emphasis on academics has led to play becoming a controversial and topical issue in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Although play has been extensively researched we still lack consensus on what play is and how play is actually implemented and used in ECEC classrooms. The present cross-cultural study aims at understa...

La formación universitaria a través de una lengua vehicular como el ingles es una de las actuales innovaciones presentes en la etapa de Educación Superior. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las experiencias de 171 estudiantes de los Grados de Educación en habla inglesa de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos seis años después de su implan...

Evaluation and documentation in eTwinning projects

La incorporación de la tecnología dentro del modelo educativo universitario para propiciar el cambio educativo es un tema emergente en la actualidad. Sin embargo, para que su integración permita incrementar la eficacia pedagógica y tenga un impacto en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje se hacen necesarios estudios que analicen las percepciones sob...

Twenty-first century learning allows for teachers to incorporate teaching and pedagogy, social media and personal learning networks in education for active and intercultural language learning in their classrooms. The proposed globalized curriculum included inviting guest professional speakers of diverse backgrounds from the global educational commu...

Recent calls to improve quality experiences in children’s education have drawn attention to the importance of teachers’ preparation for working with families. Some teacher education programs are exploring the use of simulations as the means to provide nurturing experiences that help prospective teachers establish empowering relationships.This study...

Access to high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is important for developmental outcomes and school success. The first years of life are a critical period for learning and the quality of early experiences can have a significant impact later in life. Parenting is one of the primary influences on children's development and family enga...

Nurturing experiences in preparation for prospective early childhood educators’ work with families during their training are critical for establishing empowering relationships. This article details a qualitative case study of 77 prospective early childhood educators engaged with the Parent, Family and Community Engagement Simulation. An electronic...

eTwinning has become a learning laboratory for the application of Innovation and Communication Technology (ICT) across classrooms in Europe. Initial teacher training institutions (TTI) are aware of the impact ICT is having on students' lives at all levels of our education system. eTwinning has the potential to restructure traditional models of educ...

Teachersʼ collaboration networks in fostering Innovation and Communication Technology (ICT) are essential to promote 21st century skills. Teacher education forms part of the core mission of many universities and eTwinning can help accelerate this educational change needed in initial teacher training (ITT) reforms. eTwinning is part of the European...

The implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has led educators to rethink their way of assessing college students and look for alternative choices. In particular, the use of portfolios as a form of authentic assessment is becoming more popular in higher education settings. Educators have been making a move from traditional type t...

In play, children often explore mathematical ideas that are vital for future learning. Children's play also reveals gender differences in both colour and toy preferences. The authors examined how gender-related colour preferences of 5-year-olds are related to preferences for math-specific games/toys and gendered beliefs about math. Spanish preschoo...

The goal of this paper is to share a previous study aimed at establishing the main basis when choosing the best approach and the most appropriate methodologies to teaching English as a Second Language in Pre-Primary Education. Research has been done to identify and summarize the main English teaching methodologies and related approaches used in the...

Higher education classrooms have long suffered from a lack of engagement and interactivity. As a result, students learning often suffers. Engaging students in large lecture halls is a challenging task that requires purposeful planning by instructors. This study investigated the learning effectiveness and engagement appeal of using exit tickets as a...

This poster presentation offers opportunities to explore and analyze the boundaries between education and care, and to map state policies on early childhood education in different European countries, including Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, and the United States.

Education Policy Highlight

eTwinning Teacher Training Pilot 2014-2015

La experiencia de una implantación de grados bilingües: el caso de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos y los Grados de Educación

Higher education classrooms have long suffered from a lack of interactivity. At Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, some instructors actively seek technologic interventions that can increase interactivity in large classes. This study explored the learning effectiveness and engagement appeal of using Socrative as a Student Response System (SRS), known as c...

Higher education classrooms have long suffered from a lack of interactivity. At Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, some instructors actively seek technologic interventions that can increase interactivity in large classes. This study explored the learning effectiveness and engagement appeal of using Socrative as a Student Response System (SRS), known as c...

Liderazgo 2.0: Innovación en el management, talento digital y formación competencial del profesorado

The George Lucas Educational Foundation documents and disseminates the most exciting classrooms where new digital multimedia and telecommunications not only can improve students learning, but also support educators in their challenging endeavor. I will explore some of these edges to help students and teachers to acquire twenty-first-century skills...