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Residential Mobility, Inhibitory Control, and Academic Achievement in Preschool
The present study investigated the direct effects of residential mobility on children’s inhibitory control and academic achievement during the preschool year. It also explored fall inhibitory control and academic skills as mediators linking residential mobility and spring achievement. Participants included 359 preschool children (49% female) studied in the fall and spring of the preschool year (73% were enrolled in Head Start). Residential mobility was significantly and negatively associated with fall inhibitory control and fall math and literacy. Significant indirect effects of mobility were found for spring math and literacy through inhibitory control and fall achievement. Specifically, the negative relation between mobility and spring math and literacy was partially explained by lower scores on fall inhibitory control and academic skills. The current study contributes to existing literature by specifying pathways linking frequent moves and achievement for young children. Policy implications are discussed.Keywords: preschool, inhibitory control, residential mobility, academic achievemen
Enhancing informal learning recognition through TRAILER project
Conde, M. A., García-Peñalvo, F. J., Zangrando, V.,
García-Holgado, A., Seoane-Pardo, A. M., Alier, M., Galanis, N.,
Griffiths, D., Johnson, M., Janssen, J., Brouns, F., Vogten, H.,
Finders, A., Sloep, P. B., Marques, M. A., Viegas, M. C., Alves, G. R.,
Waszkiewicz, E., Mykowska, A., Minovic, M., &
Milovanovic, M. (2013). Enhancing informal learning recognition through
TRAILER project. In F. J. García-Peñalvo, M. Á. Conde, & D. Griffiths (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Solutions that Enhance Informal Learning Recognition (WEILER 2013) (pp. 21-30). September, 18, 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1039/The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, has for some
years been making the existence of informal learning more and more
transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education
and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, coursebased,
approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal
processes satisfactorily. The project aims to facilitate first the identification by
the learner (as the last responsible of the learning process), and then the
recognition by the institution, in dialogue with the learner, of this learning. To
do so a methodology and a technological framework to support it have been
implemented. This project has been tested in several contexts showing that an informal learning dialogue between learners and people in charge
of the institutions is possible.Tagging, Recognition and Acknowledgment of Informal Learning ExpeRiences project (TRAILER) that is funded by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme. Ref. 519141-LLP-1-2011-1-ES-KA3-KA3MP [http:// trailerproject.eu]. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
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