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The establishment of weak mental or mentally retarded and the appearance of the concept of subnormal child, turn up due to the rise of schooling and the access to School of unbiased social classes up to the moment, with the consequent decrease of Scholastic efficiency. The conception / notion and identification of the «Subnormal» will be the result of Schooling and Psychopedagogy because of the constant increase of compulsory schooling in Europe at the beginning of the XXth Century.

A heuristics is a strategy, sometimes not very well structured, whose purpose is to help to find a problem solution. In the present paper, a group of mathematicians rated a set of heuristics rules for their usefulness in four fields: Geometry, differential calculus, algebra and statistics. The heuristics are structured in three groups: those associated with the analysis of the problem; those associated with the search for a solution, and those asociated to the checking of the solution. Results may be taken as a guide for the design of a training

The purpose of this paper is to publish the results of a formative syllabus research carried out among future primary school teachers in the subject area of mathematics. We conclude that the formative assessment of pupils is an effective part of the teaching process.

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between the marks obtained by the students and their evaluation of teacher's lectures and teaching skills (university teaching effectiveness). There is a possible interpretation of this issue as halo effect. The unit analysed is the subject. Some variables have been included in the correlational study: the particular year in the program, the faculty involved and the number of teachers in charge of the subject. The results obtained suggest that the students' marks may distort rather significatively

By means of the present work-study we aimed at exploring the way a group of pre-university students employ reading comprehension strategies in order to approach a philosophical text, and the way these strategies influence upon its comprehension. The study group was conformed by 604 pupils, all of which belonged to C.O.U. level (Curso de Orientación Universitaria) in private and public centres in Madrid. The pupils read for twenty minutes a philosophical text about which they answered a series of written questions. Next, they completed a questionnaire

The variables influencing science-related attitudes have received a lot of researchers' attention that have also generated many but often inconsistent results. Some determinants of attitudes frequently emphasized in the literature are the gender, the number of science subjects studied in the curricula and the grade/kind of studies. The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of these factors on the students' attitudes employing a representative sample of all the educational levels. Attitudes are assessed by means of a questionnaire implementing

This paper is focused on the academic acceleration as one of the most adequate option to reach an optimal match between the special educational needs of academic talented students and the curriculum they have to follow. Very often we see that the curriculum that schools offer to the regular students is not challenging enough for those children who can reason extremely well in some academic areas (i. e. verbal and mathematics). Most of the time this can be harmful to these kind of students sometimes causing them to develop poor study and work habits