The academic learning viewed from the perspective of John Biggs' «3P model»

El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la contrastación de un modelo teórico de aprendizaje en el cual se postula que, de acuerdo con el Modelo 3P (Biggs, 1987a, 1993a), las variables de presagio inciden sobre las de producto, mediadas por las de proceso. El modelo ha sido analizado en base a las respuestas dadas por 561 estudiantes portugueses de Educación Secundaria, a un conjunto de instrumentos de medida (Inventario de Estilos de Pensamiento IEP, Batería de Pruebas de Razonamiento Diferencial BPRD, Cuestionario de Estrategias de Autorregulación del Aprendizaje, cuestiones para evaluar las concepciones de aprendizaje, metas escolares y un problema evaluado a partir de la taxonomía SOLO) y el rendimiento final del curso en diferentes áreas académicas. Los resultados confirman las hipótesis formuladas en el modelo postulado en esta investigación y son discutidas algunas consecuencias para la práctica educativa y para el desarrollo de los alumnos.The academic learning viewed from the perspective of John Biggs’ «3P model». The authors tested a theoretical model in which is postulated that, in accordance with the Pattern 3P (Biggs, 1987a, 1993a) the presage variables, impact on those of product, mediated by those of process. The model was contrasted in a group of 561 portuguese students of Secondary Education, using the following instruments: Inventory of Thinking Styles IEP, Battery of Differential Reasoning Tests BPRD, Questionnaire of Self-regulation learning strategies, questions to evaluate the learning conceptions, school goals and a problem evaluated with the SOLO taxonomy. Academic Achievement was measured by the grades obtained by the students in different areas at the end of academic year. The results confirm the hypotheses formulated in the pattern postulated in this investigation. Consequences for the educational practice and the promoting of students learning are discussed

Spectra of heavy-light and heavy-heavy mesons containing charm quarks, including higher spin states for Nf=2+1N_f=2+ 1

We study the spectra of heavy-light and heavy-heavy mesons containing charm quarks, including higher spin states. We use two sets of $N_f = 2 + 1$ gauge configurations, one set from QCDSF using the SLiNC action, and the other configurations from the Budapest-Marseille-Wuppertal collaboration, using the HEX smeared clover action. To extract information about the excited states, we choose a suitable basis of operators to implement the variational method.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, Talk presented at the XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice2011, July 11-16, 2011, The Village at Squaw Valley, California, US