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The present project aims at evaluating the impact of inquiry-based science teaching methodology training for primary school teachers on educational methods and pupil scientific competencies. Numerous papers confirm the advantages of such educational methods. But these results generally rest on small

The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a computer tool for learning-to-read developed for android touch-screen tablets, smart-phones, and regular mobile computers. The originality of this project is based on an existing partnership with the international leader in computer-assisted lear

The NéOPRÆVAL project aims to conceive a set of assessment tools in order to help teachers to manage the heterogeneity of learning process in the classroom. This multidisciplinary project addresses both the crucial issue of assessment and the development of various assessment tools. It also addresse

In a context marked by the necessity of developing the attractiveness of training courses, receiving new types of learners and designing learning systems that help to develop skills rather than strictly disciplinary knowledge, digital epistemic games come up as an alternative pedagogy to traditional

This innovative project brings together a variety of stakeholders from different and complementary disciplines (language sciences, motricity sciences, developmental psychology, neurosciences) and from two universities, that are geographically and scientifically close to each other. In Toulouse and M

We will experimentally probe the idea that motor learning rely on reinforcement contingencies by addressing four challenging questions in the field. First we will test the effects of learning on saccade reaction time. Second we will probe whether saccade kinematics may be controlled by reinforceme

Very preterm children, born before 32 weeks of gestation, are at risk of impaired neurodevelopment, particularly cognitive deficiency, school difficulties and behaviour troubles. Among these conditions, language difficulties play a crucial role in social interactions and academic performances. As ma

Within their first years of life, children rapidly and without much instruction acquire their native language. In recent years, the language development community has made tremendous progress in examining the development of language during early childhood. However, experimental studies testing infan

The first objective is to collect new information on the documents and resources used by teachers and to design a panel of indicators that will be used in a future national observatory. To do so we will rely on information that is currently not public, obtained by data mining in anonymous databases

The starting point of this project is the goal oriented action. A double ambition makes up the project. On the one hand, we propose an study of both, the learning process and the process of transmission of movement in technical actions. On the other hand, we will show the analogies in the learning p

see above see above see above see above Executive attention involves the selection and stabilization of cognitive processes relevant for the task at hand. As such, it is understandably a prerequisite of most forms of learning. Every teacher asks his/her students to be attentive, but kids never forma

In the last 15 years, the embodied cognition approach has become widespread in all fields related to cognition. The embodiment approach to meaning considers that language is grounded on the world which means that the same perceptual, motor and emotional brain mechanisms used in real world experience