Silvia Liza Morales Silva

Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina · Education Innovation Unit

Three strategies that have been implemented in the last six years in order to improve education offered at National Agrarian University La Molina are presented and discussed. The strategies were designed to integrate discipline-specific research into teaching, as part of a broader collaborative project (Innovation of Education) funded by the Flemis...

This presentation describes educational projects at National Agrarian University La Molina (Peru), a new strategy to support teachers in order to innovate teaching practices. Since 2010 a call for projects is made including the following areas: (a) Integration of research into teaching; (b) Integration campus - field/practice; and (c) Use of ICT or...

Se estudian los efectos del programa Lectura sobre la comprensión de lectura y motivación para leer en niños de quinto grado de los niveles socioeconómicos medio y bajo de Lima. El programa enfatizó las estrategias para leer y las dimensiones de motivación para leer. Mediante el análisis de varianza se calcularon los efectos de tiempo de medición,...

In this study, the socio-cultural variation in reading comprehension development was examined in 331 fifth graders from schools in Lima, Peru. Reading comprehension was measured using an adaptation of the PIRLS Reading Literacy test. The fifth graders’ reading comprehension results, measured over the course of fifth grade, were related to the devel...

This study investigates socio-cultural cognitive literacy predictors for reading literacy (RL), tested in 314 fourth graders from two different levels of social economic status in Lima, Peru. The following variables were tested as predictors: word decoding, vocabulary, motivation to read, reading strategies, intellectual maturity, gender, home lite...

This descriptive research examines the performance on reading comprehension of four gifted adolescents participating in a reading enrichment program. This performance is related to the variables associated to the gifted performance following the model developed by Mönks: motivation, creativity, high ability, school, peers and family. Results showed...