Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31835531›Full record

ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Learning Styles Determine Different Immigrant Students' Results in Testing Settings: Relationship Between Nationality of Children and the Stimuli of Tasks.

Sandra Figueiredo, Tânia Brandão, Odete Nunes

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 78% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandra FigueiredoDepartment of Psychology and Sociology, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Luís de Camões (UAL), Rua Santa Marta, Palácio Dos Condes Do Redondo 56, 1169-023 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5152-4467
Tânia BrandãoDepartment of Psychology and Sociology, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Luís de Camões (UAL), Rua Santa Marta, Palácio Dos Condes Do Redondo 56, 1169-023 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7865-2445
Odete NunesDepartment of Psychology and Sociology and I&D CIP-Psychology Research Centre, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Luís de Camões (UAL), Rua Santa Marta, Palácio Dos Condes Do Redondo 56, 1169-023 Lisbon, Portugal.
Autonomous University of Lisbon · PT

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UID/PSI/04345/2019Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) Refª UID/PSI/04345/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLiterature presents little examination on the learning styles and sensorial preferences of immigrants during decoding of different tasks in testing contexts.

methodsIn this cross-sectional study, non-native children (between 2nd and 12th grade) were divided into six groups determined by country of origin and examined on different stimuli, visual and auditory, associated with four tasks that measure cognitive and linguistic specific abilities.

resultsThe multivariate analysis confirmed that the children's nationality significantly explained achievement variability regarding picture recognition and auditory discrimination.

conclusionsResults indicate that tasks' stimuli can effectively assess and differentiate specific young minority groups in order to understand their actual level of preparation and their needs for further learning. The listening input, on the one hand, should be established as the main differentiator for all groups at the time of school entry, but, on the other hand, it should be avoided in Asian groups and Eastern European students during the first stages of second language (L2) learning in European contexts with romance languages as the target learning.

Indexed as

auditory inputethnic groupslearning stylespersonality differencesschool learningsecond languagevisual stimuli

Identifiers

PMID31835531
PMCPMC6960589
OpenAlexW2995122131

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.