Margarida Alves Martins

Full Professor

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Biographical Note

Margarida Alves Martins has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University René Descartes Paris V and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Coimbra. She is a full Professor of Educational Psychology at ISPA and head of the Centre for Educational Research (CIE-ISPA) funded by FCT (national research agency). She teaches several curricular units in graduate, post-graduate and doctoral courses in Education and Educational Psychology and has supervised post-doc, PhD and Master students in Education and Educational Psychology. She has participated as Principal Researcher in several funded research and intervention projects. She published several papers in national and international journals mainly on early literacy and reading and writing acquisition in primary school and authored several books and book chapters on literacy.

Research Interests

  • Early literacy
  • Reading and Writing acquisition
  • Metalinguistic development

Margarida Alves Martins has been working on literacy development in preschool and on reading and writing acquisition in primary school. She has developed several research projects in these areas, namely the development of invented spelling programmes in pre-school and of writing and reading programmes in primary school.

Relevant Publications

  • Albuquerque, A. & Alves Martins, M. (2022, in press) Invented spelling as a tool to develop early literacy: The predictive effect on reading and spelling acquisition in Portuguese. Journal of Writing Research.
  • Albuquerque, A. & Alves Martins, M. (2021). Invented spelling activities in kindergarten: the role of instructional scaffolding and collaborative learning, International Journal of Early Years Education, 29(1), 96-113. DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2020.1760085
  • Dockrell, J.E., Papadopoulos, T.C., Mifsud, C.L., Bourke, L., Vilageliu, O., Bešić, E., Seifert, S., Basteiger-Klicpera, B., Ralli, A., Dimakos, I., Karpava, S., Martins, M., Sousa, O., Castro, S., Knudsen, H. B., Donau, P., Haznedar, B., Mikulajová, M., & Gerdzhikova, N., (28/01/2021 published online). Teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe: findings from a cross-European study. European Journal of Psychology of Education https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00523-z
  • Gaitas, S. & Alves Martins, M. (2017). Teacher perceived difficulty in implementing differentiated instructional strategies in primary school. International Journal of Inclusive Education 21(5), 544-556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2016.1223180
  • Alves-Martins, M., Salvador, L., & Fernández, M. M. (2017). “Otro niño lo escribió así”. Ayuda educativa y resultados de actividades de escritura inventada. Revista de Educación, 377, 161–186. doi: https://doi.org/10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2017-377-357

Current PhD students

Maria Beatriz Madeira Gil
Da planificação à textualização. Teorias e práticas pedagógicas. Um programa de intervenção para professores e alunos do 1º CEB.

External collaborations

  • Manuel Montanero Fernandéz (Universidade de Badajoz, Spain)
  • Peter Bryant (Universidade de Oxford, UK)
  • Sara Mourão Monteiro (Minas Gerais Federal University, Brasil)
  • Sandra Figueiredo (Universidade Autónoma, POrtugal)
  • Terezinha Nunes (Universidade de Oxford, UK)

Alumni

  • Anabela Marcelo (PhD student until 2020)
  • Ana Albuquerque (PhD student until 2020)
  • Betina Astride (PhD student until 2019)
  • Liliana Salvador (PhD student until 2017)
  • Mónica Gaiolas (PhD student until 2016)
  • Edlia Simões (PhD student until 2015)
  • Jorge Gonçalves (PhD student until 2015)
  • Sérgio Gaitas (PhD student until 2013)
  • Dominique Bina (PhD student until 2011)
  • Miguel Mata Pereira (PhD student until 2011)
  • Inês Vasconcelos Horta (PhD student until 2010)