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Sport education and lifelong learning in the Cemea experience: Cecrope Barilli and Ettore Gelpi

Formare, 2019
This work is a reflection on sport and its educational value. We shall be focusing on how necessary it is to be aware that humans, before being a mind, have a body, and that education, conceived as a lifelong global project, cannot neglect the body and ...
Veronica Riccardi
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Analysis of the metacognitive aspects of the writing process in secondary school students

Italiano a scuola, 2023
This paper presents the results of an action research which, based on a cognitive approach, aimed to observe the process of collaborative writing during its development, as a result of the collaborative interaction between the authors of a text.
Martina Giunchi
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Exploring the corruption‐inefficiency nexus using an endogenous stochastic frontier analysis

Southern Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 3, Page 811-849, January 2025.
Abstract Several scholars report that, due to reverse causality, the endogeneity problem makes it difficult to identify the real effect of institutional factors at the local level, such as corruption, on firm efficiency. This study employs a panel stochastic frontier analysis that endogenizes production efficiency and robustly assesses the effect of ...
Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Calogero Guccio   +1 more
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Monitorare e valutare il miglioramento scolastico [PDF]

, 2021
One of the main goals of the Italian National Evaluation System, since its establishment in 2013, is to strengthen the link between improvement and evaluation.

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The impact of math anxiety and self‐efficacy in middle school STEM choices: A 3‐year longitudinal study

British Journal of Educational Psychology, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 1091-1108, December 2024.
Abstract Introduction In today's world, which is progressively oriented towards science and technology and facing a growing demand for skilled professionals, it becomes essential to identify the factors that encourage individuals to pursue careers in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Alessandro Cuder, Sandra Pellizzoni, Miriana Di Marco, Claudia Blason, Eleonora Doz, David Giofrè, Maria Chiara Passolunghi   +6 more
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Analyzing matching patterns in marriage: Theory and application to Italian data

Quantitative Economics, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 737-781, July 2024.
Social scientists have long been interested in marital homogamy and its relationship with inequality. However, measuring homogamy is not straightforward, particularly when one is interested in assessing marital sorting based on multiple traits. In this paper, we argue that Separate Extreme Value (SEV) models not only generate a matching function with ...
Pierre‐André Chiappori, Edoardo Ciscato, Carla Guerriero   +2 more
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Young people’s civic engagement in Italy: evidence on grade 8 students from the international civic and citizenship education study (ICCS) 2016

Large-scale Assessments in Education
Civic engagement represents a key aspect of a democratic society and is itself a multidimensional construct. Research has shown that the promotion of civic engagement is an important component of civic and citizenship education intended in a broad sense,
Valeria Damiani, Elisa Caponera, Bruno Losito, Laura Palmerio, Gabriella Agrusti   +4 more
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Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 1396-1419, June 2024.
Abstract In Italy, parents are free to choose the primary school for their children without restrictions imposed by catchment areas. This freedom of choice, inspired by quasi‐market mechanisms, aims to foster competition between schools and raise educational standards.
Andrea Parma, Tommaso Agasisti, Costanzo Ranci   +2 more
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Indicators of (in)tolerance toward immigrants among European youth: an assessment of measurement invariance in ICCS 2016

Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2019
Background Promoting tolerance is an important goal of European education policies focused on education for democratic citizenship and human rights. In this article, we argue that cross-cultural comparability must be empirically assessed and ensured for ...
Maria Magdalena Isac, Laura Palmerio, M. P. C. (Greetje) van der Werf   +2 more
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Training Executive Functions Within the Mathematical Domain: A Pilot Study with an Integrated Digital‐Paper Procedure in Primary Second‐Grade

Mind, Brain, and Education, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 85-102, February 2024.
Abstract Interventions targeting cognitive control processes, such as Executive Functions (EF) have recently been experimented to enhance early math skills. This pilot study explored the feasibility and effectiveness of an intervention integrating EF activities into the mathematical domain among second‐grade students.
Costanza Ruffini, Camilla Chini, Giulia Lombardi, Silvia Della Rocca, Annarita Monaco, Sara Campana, Chiara Pecini   +6 more
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