Sistema Regional de Información
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The burnout syndrome describes a set of negative attitudes such as indifference or distant attitudes towards others and a lack of effective self-assessment in health workers. Nevertheless, another group can show high rates of work commitment, concentration and strength. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between those characteristics of the burnout syndrome with those of work engagement, selfefficacy and resilience in special education teachers. The Resilient Performance Teacher Scale (Lozada García, et al., 2012), the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (Schaufeli, et al., 1996), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Schaufeli, et al., 2002) and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (Baessler y Schwarzer, 1996) were applied to 80 teachers serving students with severe disabilities and an average of work experience of 18.24 years. The main findings highlight that in 34.38% of teachers there is arelationship between emotional fatigue with less work engagement and low levels of self-efficacy and resilient performances.

The following research refers to the use of the didactic game in elementary school. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the application of the didactic game in the classroom improves the academic performance of third grade students in the Spanish subject. With a quantitative approach and a pre-experimental design, the scopes of this research are delimited in the exploration and description of the results obtained. In a sample of students from a Mexican public school (n = 30), significant differences were found in the scores of third grade Spanish students after implementing the didactic game in the classroom.

Starting university can represent a huge hange in life for students in different aspects of life, either in a positive o negative way. This investigation has the objective to evaluate and describe psychological wellness in psychology students of Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. This study was conformed by 120 students in which 79.2% were women and 20.8% were men between 18 and 37 years old. An evidence-Based practice scale was used on this investigation (EBP) in it’s adaptation for Díaz and contributors (2006). The results revealed mid level in three of the evaluated dimensions, being these three positive relationships of autonomy and environment domain.

The purpose of the present inquiry was to know the performance differences between boys and girls in elementary school with respect to basic curricular learning in mathematics. The Evaluation of Mathematical Achievement [ELMA] was applied to 444 children from 1st to 3rd grade of public schools in east of Mexico City. Among the main findings stand out the statistically significant differences between men and women in the areas of: seriation, SDN, mental calculation and multiplicative problems. The results allowed to observe the strengths and the areas of opportunity, by grade as well as differentiated by sex. When considering that performance is not static, the authorities will be able assume decisions that help improve the mathematical learning process.

The intent of this article is to present the way it the Mexican government drives an Educational policy Aimed at the search for quality through the establishment of evaluation programs. It examines two cases, the National Researchers System (SNI) and the Teachers Professional Development Program (PRODEP), both programs are thought for Higher Education regulations in service academics. It argues the way in which this kind of evaluation deranges substantially different ways of doing practice at Higher Education academic work.

The objective of this research was to explore the level of emotional management of the seventh semester students in the academic program of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN), using the instrument called: Inventory of Emotional Management (IME). The method used was a quantitative exploratory transection, with a non-probabilistic sample for convenience with voluntary participation. The results show the levels of emotional management in 3 dimensions: resource for the solution of problems, positive emotions and negative emotions; distributing the sample studied in the levels: desirable, medium high, medium low and at risk. Each dimension is integrated from 4 to 5 scales that compose it; measurements were obtained for each scale and for each dimension.

The current reflection seeks to understand the relationship among teachers and researchers with educational authorities in the context of higher education politics and program evaluations. This relationship is analyzed from the teacher’s points of view of their personal and subjective experience and its impact on their character armour and moral quality. The argument explores the Me - You type existential relationship, in contrast with the Me - That/It type of relationship and its marks on a teacher’s body as a social, psychological, and emotional reality, as well as an interpersonal and intrapersonal reality.

The present communication synthesizes ideas about the commitment of children and young people around educational environments. The reasons that lead students to disengage from their educational trajectories and take a passive position in their studies with tendencies to boredom. Likewise, the paper describes the relationship between academic engagement and procrastination. Finally, I rescued some contributions of the Educational Psychology to think and reflect the current school and university scenarios.

The role of university professors in not only based on teaching (explaining-evaluating) knowledge which will have a limited validity. Helping students to “learn to learn” and “learningservice autonomously is vitally important for students to develop cognitive and personal aspects and their training and professional preparation. Institutions of higher education (IHE) mustchallenge students to overcome the mandatory requirement for passing the subjects and instilling critical thinking, human quality, social values, among others. For that reason, this study proposes an alternative pedagogical model to help students to develop professionally with social and human engagement through a Model of a Community Center for EducationalDevelopment (CCED). In this analysis, the model was supported by the infrastructure and the social services that an IHE has at the Toluca Valley with the purpose of serve the more vulnerable sectors of the surrounding population. As a starting point, communities were jointly diagnosedto detect real needs and possible solution in order to prove that the project is feasible. Therefore, the courses and workshops could be developed based on the needs of the vulnerable population.

This paper seeks to identify how high school teachers assume their teaching identity as a part of three axis: vocation, satisfaction and teacher discomfort. The sample was comprised of 17 teachers from two public institutions. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information. The main findings include ambivalence in that the teachers do not nominally identify as teachers, yet feel satisfied with the result of their teaching work. All interviewees exhibited an awareness of the responsibility and social commitment inherent in their work.