Articles – MEMAT

The influence of parent’s expectations and children’s early skills on children’s future STEM career prospects

26/11/2024

This paper investigates indicators of STEM career expectations among middle school children in Chile, with a focus on the roles [...]

Effects of Sex, Gender Stereotypes and Gender Identity in Male and Female Students’ Reading Motivation

12/09/2024

This study aimed to enhance our understanding of the biological sex gap in the reading motivation of students by focusing [...]

Socioeconomic gaps in specific mathematical skills at different ages in primary school.

23/07/2024

Mathematical skills significantly predict students’ educational paths. Mathematical achievement varies depending on the student’s socioeconomic status (SES).

Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts

27/06/2024

Earth’s biodiversity decline poses critical biocultural challenges, including food sovereignty and climate change adaptation. Teacher education can play a pivotal [...]

Successfully preparing future mathematics teachers for digital technology integration: a literature review

11/06/2024

Over the last several decades, digital technology (DT) integration in teaching and learning mathematics has received considerable attention, as such [...]

Characteristics of research on professional development in mathematics education and its approach to student learning

11/06/2024

This study presents a systematic literature review on Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programs in Mathematics Education, focused on their approach [...]

Discussions and Argumentation in Science Teaching: Teaching Practices and Challenges

11/06/2024

Scientific discussions in school classrooms are recent and scarce globally, with teaching characterized by unproductive patterns of interrogation-response-evaluation.

Teacher’s social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment

11/06/2024

Scholarly research has consistently shown that teachers present negative assessments of and attitudes toward migrant students.

“We are not being taught sustainable citizenship!” Podcasts for critical science literacy in teacher education

11/06/2024

Education on sustainability is a crucial goal that requires a transformative shift in teacher education to drive meaningful changes oriented [...]

Students With Growth Mindset Learn More in School: Evidence From California’s CORE School Districts

04/06/2024

Previous research provides evidence that developing a growth mindset—believing that one’s capabilities can improve—promotes academic achievement.

Playfulness and the quality of classroom interactions in preschool

31/05/2024

A high degree of playfulness in learning activities has been claimed to be more developmentally appropriate for young children than [...]

The role of mathematical vocabulary in the development of mathematical skills for Spanish-speaking students

12/04/2024

Does mathematical vocabulary predict the change in students’ performance on mathematical tasks from one academic year to the next?

Kindergarten children’s math anxiety and its relationship with mathematical performance

23/01/2024

There is limited evidence on the occurrence of math anxiety among kindergarten children.

Early symbolic numeracy and gross, fine, and perceptual-motor skills in Mexican preschool children

28/12/2023

The relation between early numeracy and motor skills has previously been examined, however,different results have been obtained depending on whether [...]

Equity in maths: Mechanisms underlying the sharpening of the gender gap.

28/12/2023

Given that early maths skills are crucial predictors of later academic success, the results from the latest maths SIMCE (System [...]

Intelligence can grow in all dimensions: findings from an experiment in Latin America

13/11/2023

Computer-based interventions that aim to help students endorse a growth mindset have been designed and tested in high-income countries for [...]

Socioeconomic disparities in the reopening of schools during the pandemic in Chile

13/11/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic produced the most significant disruption in education in history.

Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms

06/11/2023

This paper reports results of an experimental study that assessed the efficacy and teachers’ perception of feasibility of a set [...]

The Problem of Reading Motivation Multidimensionality: Theoretical and Statistical Evaluation of a Reading Motivation Scale

06/11/2023

Reading motivation is multidimensional and a critical contributor to students’ reading comprehension skill.

Impacts of a personalized book giveaway intervention in low-SES households

06/11/2023

This study reports whether a personalized book giveaway intervention boosts both parents’ perception about their 33-month-old (52% female) children's interest [...]

Adolescents’ academic self-efficacy and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis of family and school risk factors.

06/11/2023

The study sought to identify family conditions and school actions associated with academic self-efficacy and emotional well-being of adolescents during [...]

Study of a set of reading precursors among Chilean children with Down syndrome

06/11/2023

Learning to read for children with Down syndrome is relevant because of the impact this ability has on learning and [...]

Interactions for teaching mathematics in early ages.

17/08/2023

Mathematics education is deeper than the mere transmission of content and includes, for example, the development of skills and competencies. [...]

Sexism in Higher Education: How is Gender Inequality Reproduced in the University context?

03/08/2023

In Chile, as in many countries in the world, there are manifestations of gender inequality in education, which undermines everyone’s [...]

Characterising the Didactic-Stochastic Knowledge of Future Mathematics Teachers: The Case of Chile

01/08/2023

Background: Stochastics’ teacher education has become an important research topic since mathematics teachers are usually responsible for the teaching of [...]

International comparisons of the home mathematics environment and relations with children’s mathematical achievement

20/07/2023

Home mathematics environment (HME) re-search has focused on parent–child interactions surround-ing numerical activities as measured by the frequency of engaging [...]

Development of children’s number line estimation in primary school: Regional and curricular influences

27/06/2023

Is the development of number line estimation (NLE) similar across regions? Data from Canada (Quebec, n = 67, Mage = [...]

Teachers’ strategies and challenges in teaching 21st century skills: Little common understanding

20/04/2023

Faced with a world of accelerating change and rapidly-evolving technology, education systems must provide students with the skills they need [...]

Mathematical problem-solving-related affect across gender and grade-level among upper primary students

13/01/2023

Affect has been identified as one of the important inputs in illuminating the mechanism of cognitive activities in mathematical problem [...]

Initial Diagnostic Assessment in Pre-Service Teacher Training in Chile and its Relationship With Institutional Contexts

09/12/2022

This paper examines the way in which five Chilean universities have implemented the mandatory initial diagnostic assessment in pre-service teacher [...]

My family matters: altruistic, mixed and self-oriented purposes for learning among Chilean students

01/12/2022

This work analyzes the purposes declared by a small sample of Chilean students, categorizing them according to their self-oriented, altruistic [...]

Tensions in Teaching Statistical Inference in Pre-Service Teacher Education

03/11/2022

This study examines the tensions experienced by a mathematics teacher educator when teaching statistical inference, a topic where several teaching [...]

The Role of Preschool Dosage and Quality in Children’s Self-Regulation Development

01/11/2022

The present study examined how the dosage and quality of the federal preschool program “Head Start” (HS) in the US [...]

Self-Regulation Scaffolding Behaviors of Teachers in Chilean Preschool Classrooms

27/10/2022

Teachers’ scaffolding behaviors support children’s self-regulation skills in the classroom. However, little evidence is available regarding the presence of self-regulation [...]

Early home learning environment profiles and their contribution to child development in Chile

16/08/2022

The home learning environment (HLE) is a significant factor in children's development. This study uses the Chilean Early Childhood Longitudinal [...]

Relations between the Home Learning Environment and the Literacy and Mathematics Skills of Eight-Year-Old Canadian Children

26/07/2022

The home learning environment includes parental activities, attitudes, affect, knowledge, and resources devoted to supporting children’s development, including literacy and [...]