Browsing School of Education (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Hijón-Neira, Raquel"
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Analysis of three methodological approaches in the use of gamification in vocational training
Garcia-Iruela, Miguel; Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia (MDPI, 2021-07-28)A reduced interest and low motivation in learning amongst vocational students has become a challenge with many traditional strategies not capable of providing a solution to motivation and encouraging participation in ... -
Can gamification help in increasing motivation, engagement, and satisfaction? A gamified experience in teaching CS to students from other disciplines
García-Iruela, Miguel; Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia (Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2022)The digital revolution is causing the new generations to demand new ways of learning. Motivating students is one crucial element of the learning-teaching process to achieve students’ learning, which is the main objective ... -
The effects of a visual execution environment and makey makey on primary school children learning introductory programming concepts
Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Pérez-Marin, Diana; Pizarro, Celeste; Connolly, Cornelia (IEEE, 2020-12-01)The interest of children in learning to program computers has increased dramatically in recent years with the adaptation of new programming languages such as Scratch or game-based approaches. That being so, it is still ... -
A guided scratch visual execution environment to introduce programming concepts to CS1 students
Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia; Palacios-Alonso, Daniel; Borrás-Gené, Oriol (MDPI, 2021-09-17)First-year computer science (CS1) university students traditionally have difficulties understanding how to program. This paper describes research introducing CS1 students to programming concepts using a Scratch programming ... -
Mobile learning to support computational thinking in initial teacher education: A case study
Connolly, Cornelia; Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Ó Grádaigh, Seán (IGI Global, 2021)Research on the role of mobile learning in computational thinking is limited, and even more so in its use in initial teacher education. Aligned to this there is a need to consider how to introduce and expose pre-service ... -
Pre-service teacher perceptions in integrating maker-centered learning in their mathematics and education initial teacher education programme
Connolly, Cornelia; O Gorman, Sean; Hall, Tony; Hijón-Neira, Raquel (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament de Pedagogia, 2020)This paper describes an innovative programme ‘C2 4M2 : Creative Coding for Math’s Makers’, in an undergraduate concurrent teacher education degree programme. Using the Makerspace in a University setting, the programme ... -
Prototype of a recommendation model with artificial intelligence for computational thinking improvement of secondary education students
Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia; Pizarro, Celeste; Pérez-Marín, Diana (MDPI, 2023-05-26)There is a growing interest in finding new ways to address the difficult task of introducing programming to secondary students for the first time to improve students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Therefore, extensive ...