Valentina Tobia
Biographic Data
| ID | 5972575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Tobia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobia |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vita-Salute San Raffaele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8041-8113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Supporting inclusion in nursing education
BACKGROUND: Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs) are neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by persistent difficulties in reading, writing, and mathematics despite adequate intellectual abilities. Understanding the lived experiences of nursing student with SLDs is essential to developing inclusive educational strategies that promote both academic success and patient safety. AIM: This qualitative meta-synthesis explored and interpreted the live…
Gender differences of individual and contextual factors in predicting bullying and victimization
This study investigates the role of individual and contextual factors as potential concurrent predictors of bullying and victimization in male and female high school students. The sample included 517 adolescents and their teachers. With a multi‐informant approach, measures of bullying and victimization, personality traits, psychopathological symptoms, peer ratings of popularity, loneliness, bothersomeness, as well as school climate, were collecte…
Teachers' report of sense of time in kindergarten predicts children's time‐processing skills in first grade
The main aim of this longitudinal study was to evaluate if a questionnaire measuring the sense of time, filled in by teachers and parents in the last year of kindergarten, was able to predict children's time‐processing skills at the end of 1st grade. The sample included 131 children (initial mean age = 4.77 ± 0.29 years) tested three times in a 2‐year period with tasks of time reproduction, time discrimination, and comparison of durations. One of…
Clusters that are not there
Clustering methods are increasingly used in social science research. Generally, researchers use them to infer the existence of qualitatively different types of individuals within a larger population, thus unveiling previously “hidden” heterogeneity. Depending on the clustering technique, however, valid inference requires some conditions and assumptions. Common risks include not only failing to detect existing clusters due to a lack of power but a…
Spelling and writing skills in minority-language bilingual children exposed to a transparent orthography
Many studies have explored how Language-Minority Bilingual Children (LMBC) read and comprehend, while the way they learn to spell and write has received less attention. This study aimed to assess a comprehensive profile of spelling and writing skills in LMBC, comparing performances of 4th and 5th grade bilingual (n = 74) and monolingual (n = 131) children in word and nonword reading and multilevel spelling and writing tasks (word, nonword and pas…
Home Learning Environment and Screen Time Differentially Mediate the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Preschoolers’ Learning and Behavioural Profiles
Environmental variables related to the home context, including home literacy and numeracy, screen exposure and Socioeconomic Status (SES) are potential risks or protective factors for children's academic achievements and behaviour. The present multi-informant study aims to contribute to this issue by investigating SES's direct and indirect relationships in early learning (i.e., literacy, numeracy, and cognitive) and behavioural skills within a la…
A Multi-Informant Approach Testing an Expanded Home Numeracy Mode
The role of home numeracy activities in the development of numeracy skills is receiving growing interest, although some mixed results highlight the need to consider models that include different contextual variables. The present study was aimed at investigating, using a multi-method and multi-informant approach, how parents’ educational levels, parents’ numerical attitudes, home numeracy, and expectations toward their offspring’s numeracy attitud…
The influence of classroom seating arrangement on children’s cognitive processes in primary school
Text‐to‐speech applications to reduce mind wandering in students with dyslexia
Home activities and cognitive skills in relation to early literacy and numeracy
The aim of the present study was to test environmental and cognitive variables as possible cross-domain predictors of early literacy and numeracy skills. One hundred forty-eight preschool children (mean age = 64.36 months ± 3.33) were enrolled in the study. The battery included a home literacy and home numeracy questionnaire, measures and phonological and visuo-spatial working memory, tasks tapping response inhibition, and predictors of literacy …
Magnitude Comparisons, Number Knowledge and Calculation in VeryPreterm Children and Children With Specific Learning Disability
Difficulties in mathematics have been described in very preterm children, but their origins are not well understood and may differ from other populations with specific learning disability. Very preterm children, children with learning disability, and typically developing children were compared in mathematics skills, using standardized tools, experimental tasks, and eye-tracker measures. We assessed symbolic and nonsymbolic magnitude comparisons, …
Look back at text or rely on memory? Efficacy of reading comprehension strategies in good and poor oral comprehenders
Background Reading comprehension is a multifactorial process, but one of its features has been relatively under‐investigated: it is the strategy used when answering reading comprehension questions. In order to find the correct answer, children can either respond to questions about a text relying on their text memory or look back at the written text. This study analyses (i) which strategy, memory or look‐back is more frequently adopted in primary …
Rumination and Emotional Profile in Children with Specific Learning Disorders and Their Parents
Rumination, namely a cognitive process characterized by a repetitive thinking focused on negative feelings and thoughts, is a significant predictor for the onset of internalizing symptoms and has also been found to run in families. Rumination has never been studied in children with specific learning disorders (SLD), a population that, due to its condition, might encounter more difficulties in daily life and is at risk of increased psychological d…
Theoretical models of comprehension skills tested through a comprehension assessment battery for primary school children
In this study, two alternative theoretical models were compared, in order to analyze which of them best explains primary school children’s text comprehension skills. The first one was based on the distinction between two types of answers requested by the comprehension test: local or global. The second model involved texts’ input modality: written or oral. For this purpose, a new instrument that assesses listening and reading comprehension skills …
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire-Parents for Italian School-Aged Children
Reading under the skin
Cognitive Profiles of Italian Children With Developmental Dyslexia
The aim of this study was to investigate verbal and nonverbal cognitive deficits in Italian students with developmental dyslexia. The performances of 32 dyslexic students, 64 age‐matched typically reading controls, and 64 reading age–matched controls were compared on tests of lexical knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, verbal short‐term memory, visual search, verbal–visual recall, and visuospatial attention. Considering t…
Cognitive Profiles of Italian Children With Developmental Dyslexia
The aim of this study was to investigate verbal and nonverbal cognitive deficits in Italian students with developmental dyslexia. The performances of 32 dyslexic students, 64 age‐matched typically reading controls, and 64 reading age–matched controls were compared on tests of lexical knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, verbal short‐term memory, visual search, verbal–visual recall, and visuospatial attention. Considering t…
Cognitive Profiles of Italian Children With Developmental Dyslexia
The aim of this study was to investigate verbal and nonverbal cognitive deficits in Italian students with developmental dyslexia. The performances of 32 dyslexic students, 64 age‐matched typically reading controls, and 64 reading age–matched controls were compared on tests of lexical knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, verbal short‐term memory, visual search, verbal–visual recall, and visuospatial attention. Considering t…
Reading under the skin
Theoretical models of comprehension skills tested through a comprehension assessment battery for primary school children
In this study, two alternative theoretical models were compared, in order to analyze which of them best explains primary school children’s text comprehension skills. The first one was based on the distinction between two types of answers requested by the comprehension test: local or global. The second model involved texts’ input modality: written or oral. For this purpose, a new instrument that assesses listening and reading comprehension skills …
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire-Parents for Italian School-Aged Children
Look back at text or rely on memory? Efficacy of reading comprehension strategies in good and poor oral comprehenders
Background Reading comprehension is a multifactorial process, but one of its features has been relatively under‐investigated: it is the strategy used when answering reading comprehension questions. In order to find the correct answer, children can either respond to questions about a text relying on their text memory or look back at the written text. This study analyses (i) which strategy, memory or look‐back is more frequently adopted in primary …
Rumination and Emotional Profile in Children with Specific Learning Disorders and Their Parents
Rumination, namely a cognitive process characterized by a repetitive thinking focused on negative feelings and thoughts, is a significant predictor for the onset of internalizing symptoms and has also been found to run in families. Rumination has never been studied in children with specific learning disorders (SLD), a population that, due to its condition, might encounter more difficulties in daily life and is at risk of increased psychological d…
Magnitude Comparisons, Number Knowledge and Calculation in VeryPreterm Children and Children With Specific Learning Disability
Difficulties in mathematics have been described in very preterm children, but their origins are not well understood and may differ from other populations with specific learning disability. Very preterm children, children with learning disability, and typically developing children were compared in mathematics skills, using standardized tools, experimental tasks, and eye-tracker measures. We assessed symbolic and nonsymbolic magnitude comparisons, …
The influence of classroom seating arrangement on children’s cognitive processes in primary school
Text‐to‐speech applications to reduce mind wandering in students with dyslexia
Home activities and cognitive skills in relation to early literacy and numeracy
The aim of the present study was to test environmental and cognitive variables as possible cross-domain predictors of early literacy and numeracy skills. One hundred forty-eight preschool children (mean age = 64.36 months ± 3.33) were enrolled in the study. The battery included a home literacy and home numeracy questionnaire, measures and phonological and visuo-spatial working memory, tasks tapping response inhibition, and predictors of literacy …
A Multi-Informant Approach Testing an Expanded Home Numeracy Mode
The role of home numeracy activities in the development of numeracy skills is receiving growing interest, although some mixed results highlight the need to consider models that include different contextual variables. The present study was aimed at investigating, using a multi-method and multi-informant approach, how parents’ educational levels, parents’ numerical attitudes, home numeracy, and expectations toward their offspring’s numeracy attitud…
Gender differences of individual and contextual factors in predicting bullying and victimization
This study investigates the role of individual and contextual factors as potential concurrent predictors of bullying and victimization in male and female high school students. The sample included 517 adolescents and their teachers. With a multi‐informant approach, measures of bullying and victimization, personality traits, psychopathological symptoms, peer ratings of popularity, loneliness, bothersomeness, as well as school climate, were collecte…
Teachers' report of sense of time in kindergarten predicts children's time‐processing skills in first grade
The main aim of this longitudinal study was to evaluate if a questionnaire measuring the sense of time, filled in by teachers and parents in the last year of kindergarten, was able to predict children's time‐processing skills at the end of 1st grade. The sample included 131 children (initial mean age = 4.77 ± 0.29 years) tested three times in a 2‐year period with tasks of time reproduction, time discrimination, and comparison of durations. One of…
Clusters that are not there
Clustering methods are increasingly used in social science research. Generally, researchers use them to infer the existence of qualitatively different types of individuals within a larger population, thus unveiling previously “hidden” heterogeneity. Depending on the clustering technique, however, valid inference requires some conditions and assumptions. Common risks include not only failing to detect existing clusters due to a lack of power but a…
Spelling and writing skills in minority-language bilingual children exposed to a transparent orthography
Many studies have explored how Language-Minority Bilingual Children (LMBC) read and comprehend, while the way they learn to spell and write has received less attention. This study aimed to assess a comprehensive profile of spelling and writing skills in LMBC, comparing performances of 4th and 5th grade bilingual (n = 74) and monolingual (n = 131) children in word and nonword reading and multilevel spelling and writing tasks (word, nonword and pas…
Home Learning Environment and Screen Time Differentially Mediate the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Preschoolers’ Learning and Behavioural Profiles
Environmental variables related to the home context, including home literacy and numeracy, screen exposure and Socioeconomic Status (SES) are potential risks or protective factors for children's academic achievements and behaviour. The present multi-informant study aims to contribute to this issue by investigating SES's direct and indirect relationships in early learning (i.e., literacy, numeracy, and cognitive) and behavioural skills within a la…
Supporting inclusion in nursing education
BACKGROUND: Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs) are neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by persistent difficulties in reading, writing, and mathematics despite adequate intellectual abilities. Understanding the lived experiences of nursing student with SLDs is essential to developing inclusive educational strategies that promote both academic success and patient safety. AIM: This qualitative meta-synthesis explored and interpreted the live…
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (5 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Comprehension (4 works)