Pietro Boscolo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2492487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pietro Boscolo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pietro |
| FAMILY NAME | Boscolo |
| SIGNATURE | BOSCOLO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Relations among motivation, behaviour, and performance in writing: A multiple‐group structural equation modeling study
BACKGROUND: Writing is a particularly demanding activity, which poses unique motivational challenges for students. Despite the wealth of research on the relation between writing motivation and writing performance, little is known about the role of students' writing frequency in writing motivation and writing performance. AIMS: We aimed to: (1) examine structural relations among two motivational variables (i.e., self-efficacy and attitudes), a beh…
Improving the quality of students' academic writing: An Intervention Study
An intervention aimed at improving academic writing—in particular, synthesis writing—was conducted with 52 undergraduate students of psychology of the University of Padua (Italy). Before and after the intervention, which lasted 12 weeks, participants were administered a questionnaire on beliefs about writing and a synthesis writing task. During the intervention, participants practised academic writing by composing texts which were revised by the …
Causal Coherence in Deaf and Hearing Students' Written Narratives
This study investigates the causal coherence of deaf students’ written narratives and the relation between students’ use of causal structures in narrative writing and their linguistic skills. The written narratives of 17 deaf high school students were compared with those of 2 groups of hearing writers: 17 high school tudents and 16 second graders. Participants were asked to produce a written narrative on the basis of the picture storybook Frog, W…
Student motivation: An experience of inservice education as a context for professional development of teachers
The construction of expository text
The aim of this study is to analyse the ways in which elementary school children construct an expository text, i.e. a text whose primary objective is to express information and ideas and which is well exemplified in school textbooks. Eighty subjects from grade 2 to 8 were requested to write a text about the wind. The writing task was divided into two main phases: in the first phase each subject dictated his/her ideas to an adult who transcribed t…
Semantic components in the literal and metaphorical use of movement verbs
Improving the quality of students' academic writing: An Intervention Study
An intervention aimed at improving academic writing—in particular, synthesis writing—was conducted with 52 undergraduate students of psychology of the University of Padua (Italy). Before and after the intervention, which lasted 12 weeks, participants were administered a questionnaire on beliefs about writing and a synthesis writing task. During the intervention, participants practised academic writing by composing texts which were revised by the …
Causal Coherence in Deaf and Hearing Students' Written Narratives
This study investigates the causal coherence of deaf students’ written narratives and the relation between students’ use of causal structures in narrative writing and their linguistic skills. The written narratives of 17 deaf high school students were compared with those of 2 groups of hearing writers: 17 high school tudents and 16 second graders. Participants were asked to produce a written narrative on the basis of the picture storybook Frog, W…
Student motivation: An experience of inservice education as a context for professional development of teachers
Semantic components in the literal and metaphorical use of movement verbs
The construction of expository text
The aim of this study is to analyse the ways in which elementary school children construct an expository text, i.e. a text whose primary objective is to express information and ideas and which is well exemplified in school textbooks. Eighty subjects from grade 2 to 8 were requested to write a text about the wind. The writing task was divided into two main phases: in the first phase each subject dictated his/her ideas to an adult who transcribed t…
Student motivation: An experience of inservice education as a context for professional development of teachers
Causal Coherence in Deaf and Hearing Students' Written Narratives
This study investigates the causal coherence of deaf students’ written narratives and the relation between students’ use of causal structures in narrative writing and their linguistic skills. The written narratives of 17 deaf high school students were compared with those of 2 groups of hearing writers: 17 high school tudents and 16 second graders. Participants were asked to produce a written narrative on the basis of the picture storybook Frog, W…
Improving the quality of students' academic writing: An Intervention Study
An intervention aimed at improving academic writing—in particular, synthesis writing—was conducted with 52 undergraduate students of psychology of the University of Padua (Italy). Before and after the intervention, which lasted 12 weeks, participants were administered a questionnaire on beliefs about writing and a synthesis writing task. During the intervention, participants practised academic writing by composing texts which were revised by the …
Relations among motivation, behaviour, and performance in writing: A multiple‐group structural equation modeling study
BACKGROUND: Writing is a particularly demanding activity, which poses unique motivational challenges for students. Despite the wealth of research on the relation between writing motivation and writing performance, little is known about the role of students' writing frequency in writing motivation and writing performance. AIMS: We aimed to: (1) examine structural relations among two motivational variables (i.e., self-efficacy and attitudes), a beh…
Psychology (6 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Writing and Handwriting Education (3 works) · Comprehension (2 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)