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Lyric Reading and Empathy

Rodriguez, Antonio

In: Journal of Literary Theory, 2017, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 108-117

Université de Fribourg

Effectiveness of an extracurricular program for struggling readers: A comparative study with parent tutors and volunteer tutors

Villiger, Caroline ; Hauri, Silke ; Tettenborn, Annette ; Hartmann, Erich ; Näpflin, Catherine ; Hugener, Isabelle ; Niggli, Alois

In: Learning and Instruction, 2019, vol. 60, p. 54-65

This study reviews the effectiveness of an extracurricular paired reading program to enhance the reading of struggling readers. For the first time, two program conditions are compared within one study: parent tutors and volunteer tutors. The program was implemented within a randomized controlled field trial; its effects on reading fluency and reading ability were investigated on a sample of...

Université de Fribourg

The relation between spatial thinking and proportional reasoning in preschoolers

Möhring, Wenke ; Newcombe, Nora S. ; Frick, Andrea

In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2015, vol. 132, p. 213–220

Previous research has indicated a close link between spatial and mathematical thinking. However, what shared processes account for this link? In this study, we focused on the spatial skill of map reading and the mathematical skill of proportional reasoning and investigated whether scaling, or the ability to relate information in different-sized representations, is a shared process. Scaling was...

Université de Fribourg

Evaluation of the Rapid Polymyxin NP test and its industrial version for the detection of polymyxin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

Jayol, Aurélie ; Kieffer, Nicolas ; Poirel, Laurent ; Guérind, François ; Güneser, Deniz ; Cattoir, Vincent ; Nordmann, Patrice

In: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2018, vol. 92, no. 2, p. 90–94

The commercial Rapid Polymyxin NP test was evaluated to detect colistin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. A total of 223 enterobacterial isolates corresponding to 136 resistant (including 38 MCR-like producers), 19 heteroresistant, and 78 colistin- susceptible isolates were tested. The test was performed according to the manufacturer's instruction, and the color of the wells was read after 2 and 3...