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School Mediation under the Spotlight: What Spanish Secondary Students Think of Mediation
2019
Educational professionals and policy-makers need to update their strategies to address and prevent school violence. Mediation has proved to be a useful tool for peace-building in different countries by developing individuals, their relationships, and the school climate. However, little research has assessed mediation practices. This study aims to evaluate mediation through the perceptions of secondary school students in Spain in order to highlight strengths and weaknesses of school mediation programs. It specifically aims to learn from the assessment by those who attended mediation and to detect whether there exist any significant differences regarding gender and school year. To do this, we…
Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
2016
This chapter explores the best practices and resources for adopting assessment and evaluation strategies and practices across countries.
Case of Latvia in the Evaluation of Adult Education: Issues and Solutions
2015
<p><em>In the context of research the evaluation of adult education is analyzed as a process and outcome, emphasizing the evaluation of performance; goals are related to the assurance of quality and sustainability according to learners' needs; competence indicators are methodology, motivation, communication and management; evaluation involves self-evaluation, external evaluation and consolidation.</em></p><p><em>The goal of the article is to analyze the experience of adult educators in the field of evaluation. Methods - analysis of literature and interviews with Latvia’s education policy makers and implementers in AQUAD environment.</em></p>&l…
Item transformation for computer asisted language testing: The adaptation of the Spanish University entrance examination
2010
Since the Spanish Educational system is changing and promoting the use of online tests, it was necessary to study the transformation of test items in the 'Spanish University Entrance Examination' (IB P.A.U.) to diminish the effect of test delivery changes (through its computerization) in order to affect the least the current model. The purpose of this study was to describe and suggest the properties of a new test item taxonomy for the Spanish University Entrance Examination. After a convenient study and piloting by using previous research in computer-based language testing, the researchers created a taxonomy of test items for the I.B. PAU Keywords: Language test; item design; computers; edu…
The QELtLCUS questionnaire : an instrument for evaluating the learning to learn competence in university students
2021
La competencia 'aprender a aprender' es una competencia clave que la Comisión Europea (CE, 2006 y 2018) fijó para los sistemas educativos. Para su incorporación al diseño curricular y a los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje es ineludible disponer de instrumentos de evaluación rigurosos. Este trabajo se centra en el diseño y validación de un cuestionario cuantitativo estandarizado para evaluar su adquisición en estudiantes universitarios, dadas las limitaciones de los actualmente disponibles. Para ello se hizo uso de un diseño de validación de pruebas. Se utilizó una muestra de 1237 alumnos universitarios de tres universidades valencianas. Los resultados de consistencia interna y validez de …
Developing Engineering Skills in Secondary Students Through STEM Project Based Learning
2020
The development of 21st century skills allows the training of competent students prepared for work and social life. The improvement of these skills, necessary for engineering students and future engineers, can be favored with training in Secondary Education Stage. Specifically, the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology includes the performance of different activities that allow the acquisition of both conceptual and procedural skills. This article describes the relationship between the skills that high school students develop when they work with PBL and the competences (ABET engineering skills) they acquire. In addition, an objective evaluation of the learning outcomes of 129 Secondary s…
Consideraciones sobre la relación mente-cuerpo en el proceso del parto
2023
Analizo algunos aspectos clave del modelo médico del parto, centrándome especialmente en los presupuestos que parece albergar sobre la relación mente-cuerpo. En primer lugar, examino las visiones del modelo médico como un modelo dualista ontológico. En contra de las críticas habituales a este dualismo, que sostienen que ha llevado a tratar el cuerpo de parto como una máquina ¿rastreando, además, hasta Descartes el origen de este enfoque¿, defiendo que el problema no reside en el propio dualismo, sino en que se obvia la interacción mente-cuerpo: son las propias personas de parto quienes se tratan como máquinas. En segundo lugar, analizo la centralidad de la noción de riesgo en el modelo médi…
Blisters and calluses from rowing : prevalence, perceptions and pain tolerance
2022
Background and Objectives: Rowing is a sport that involves constant gripping, pulling/pushing, and rotational movements of the hands, in a cyclic periodic manner with every stroke, with hundreds of strokes being taken within a short period of time. Dermatological issues on rowers’ hands (fingers and palms) in the form of blisters and calluses are common knowledge within the community, but their prevalence and the rower’s perceptions and pain tolerance to them has never been systematically evaluated. This work addresses these lacunae. Materials and Methods: Analysis of data collected from a survey on a sample of competitive (117) and noncompetitive rowers (28) who row on-water (total 145). R…
Determination of the factors that condition the quality of an university: practical application of a factorial analysis
2003
This article supposes a practical application of the technique of the factorial analysis. Their particularity resides in the nature of the variables that we try to study (conditions of the university quality), of the instrument designed for the study (questionnaire of evaluation) and of the basic objective of this work that is not another that to pick up the opinion of a representative sample of students on the dimensions and elements that they have to conform a model of indicators of university quality. After a first exhibition of ideas in the one that different concomitant elements of the university quality are commented, this technique, applied on a total of 110 ordinal scales, she has g…
Teacher trainees' experiences of the components of ICT competencies and key factors in ICT competence development in work-based vocational teacher tr…
2022
International journal for research in vocational education and training 9 (2022) 2, S. 146-166