Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

The implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) required university courses to strengthen the development of students' competences. This paper presents the results of four editions of The Maddison Awards, a practical exercise to develop several competences: teamwork, audiovisual production, synthesis, and ICT use. Specifically, it consisted in writing, filmmaking and editing short films related to different topics studied in Economic History. In total, almost 2,000 students have participated, who working in groups, have made more than a hundred videos. The results have been highly positive, corroborating the usefulness of this exercise to bring the Economic History closer to students, stimulating creativity and the degree of involvement during the course. However, it also posed some difficulties.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, 76 physical education and sports teachers and 74 preservice teachers voluntarily participated in this study, which investigated the Lifelong Learning competencies of Physical Education and Sports Teachers and Physical Education and Sports Teaching Students. Data were collected with the Lifelong Learning Competence (LLC) scale. According to the results of the research, it was determined that the average scores of the participants from the LLC scale were high. There is a statistically significant difference in favor of physical education teachers between the LLC total score of teachers and students and the sub-dimensions of the scale. In terms of the age variable, a statistically significant difference was found between the LLC total score and the sub-dimensions of the scale in favor of the age of 34 and above. According to the results of the correlation analysis between age and LLC sub-dimensions, a positive relationship was found between age and total score, self-management, learning to learn, initiative and entrepreneurship, and a positive relationship between acquiring information and decision-making. Although it is difficult to make a causal inference because the current research was designed in a cross-sectional pattern, lifelong learning competence in the current research group increases with age in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since it entered education in the mid-20th century, qualitative research has been a well-established methodology among educational researchers. Its strength lies in its nature, scope, and methodological flexibility to understand education's cultural, social, political and moral phenomena. Between the 1970s and 1980s, the relevance and superiority of quantitative vs. qualitative research in education were debated in academic forums. The paradigm debate was so intense that it reached political discussions. In 2002, the National Research Council (NRC) of the United States of America recommended the Federal Department of Education the exclusion of qualitative research from federal funds because it was not considered scientific research. A similar situation was observed in England and Australia. Since then, qualitative research has continued to develop as a model of educational research with the support of private funds. This paper revisits qualitative education research and examines its developments to reposition itself as a legitimate model of scholarly research in a political-scientific era.

The objective of this study is to show the level of self-esteem of secondary school students, both in urban and rural areas and according to gender and year group, in the province of Córdoba (Spain). The sample consists of 307 students from four secondary schools. The Garcia (1995) self-esteem evaluation questionnaire for secondary school students was used. The results show statistically significant discrepancies according to gender: for physical, general, intellectual, emotional self-esteem, relationships with others and on the independent scale of self-criticism. Depending on the year group, there are differences in physical and general self-esteem and the self-critical independence scale. On the other hand, significant correlations are observed (slight ones, between the students’ age and their general and physical self-esteem and the self-critical independence scale). These results are useful in terms of identifying specific aspects of self-esteem that could be fostered in the school environment.

The presence of students with special educational needs in Spanish universities has increased considerably in recent decades, making it necessary to train teaching staff in certain areas. The main objective of the study is to find out the perceptions of those responsible for technology and training in university higher education centres in Seville city and province, more specifically, on the knowledge of university teaching staff in relation to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as a support for students with disabilities. A qualitative methodology was used, with semi-structured interviews as the main instrument for collecting information. The study sample consisted of a total of 10 experts in the field of disability and technology. In terms of the conclusions of the present study, the lack of awareness of the subject and the lack of time available to teachers are notable. As for the main barriers, there is also a lack of technological training available to them when it comes to applying ICT as a support for students with disabilities.

The objective of this study has been to analyze the relationship of different variables such as possible previous training in web 2.0 and social software, or the number of hours of exposure and browsing on the internet and academic use of university virtual platforms by students of courses 18- 19 and 19-20 from the Pablo de Olavide University and the National Distance Education University of Graduate in Social Education and Pedagogy respectively, in terms of the degree of training shown in digital skills of students in these university contexts. For this purpose, a didactic instrument called COBADI_2_0 (basic digital skills 2.0 of university students) has been used with registered trademark 29,706,648 in the OEMP (Spain), and the present study of the Innovation Project "Teaching Innovation 2.0 with Technologies of Information and Communication (ICT) in the European Higher Education Area ”, located within the framework of Action 2 of Innovation and Teaching Development Projects subsidized by the Vice-Rector's Office for Teaching and European Convergence of the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville) . Multivariate analyzes of variance, t tests, chi-square tests as well as descriptive box and whisker tests were carried out with the different variables referred to. In the first place and with respect to previous training in web 2.0 and social software, the results showed both at the Pablo Olavide University and the UNED during courses 18-19 and 19-20, a significant correlation between this training and the competences basic digital data demonstrated in the use of ICTs for the search and processing of information (block II). However, subsequent t-student tests also showed that, with respect to students without this previous training in web 2.0, no significant difference is evidenced in any block of acquired digital skills. Secondly, in the sample of students from both universities, it was found that greater exposure and Internet browsing was related to a slightly higher demonstration of all blocks of basic digital skills, although only a significant relationship was evidenced for this exposure to the Internet. with the acquisition of basic digital skills of block IV (virtual tools and social communication of the University), in the students of the UNED, of both courses. Finally, the tests carried out on boxes and whiskers showed little relevance or impact of the aforementioned time of exposure of the student on the Internet for the acquisition or demonstration of basic digital skills of block I and block III (knowledge and use of ICT in social communication and interpersonal skills in the use of ICTs in the university context, respectively). On the other hand, said exposure was significant for the competences of blocks II and IV (competences of use of ICTs for the search and treatment of information and virtual and social communication tools of the University, respectively), especially for the low and medium exposure levels. Finally, the results and their possible practical implications are discussed.

Unwanted behaviour using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), generally with mobile phones, is a concern in schools in our country. In order to address this situation, new strategies are being developed and applied to promote positive coexistence, such as peer mediation. The aim of this research is to analyse how ICT conflicts are perceived by students in Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO). A survey study was carried out using a Likert-type questionnaire, the School Violence Questionnaire (CUVE-R) on the perception of conflicts. The sample consisted of 1069 students from different schools in Malaga. The results indicate the existence of a significant level of ICT conflict between pupils and, to a lesser extent, between pupils and teachers, always from the pupils' point of view. It is concluded that ICT violence can be tackled with the implementation of school mediation, a strategy that is proposed as an appropriate procedure for positive conflict management. The fundamental principles of mediation are the same: voluntariness and free will, equality of the parties, neutrality of the mediators and confidentiality. In this paper we do not include cyberbullying behaviour as these authors consider that this conflict is the most serious of all possible conflicts and does not admit school mediation between peers as it does not support the elementary principle of equality between the parties, although mediation can be a good proactive strategy against cyberbullying.

Psychological outcomes play a vital role in the stress and satisfaction with life (SWL) of people amid novel situations. Set in the context of emergency remote education amid the global COVID-19 crisis, this study was carried out with the overall purpose to assess whether hope and resilience mediate the relationship between stress and SWL of teachers. A survey was conducted in a sample of 2272 teachers from Mindanao, Philippines. Adapted scales were used to gather the needed data through a structured online survey questionnaire. The result of the analysis demonstrated that stress has a significant and negative predictive effect on hope, resilience, and SWL. On the other hand, hope and resilience generated significant and positive predictive effects on SWL. The result of mediation analysis proved that hope and resilience significantly mediated the relationship between stress and SWL. These pieces of evidence suggest that hope and resilience are important psychological resources that can decrease the negative impacts of COVID-19 experiences such as stress on the SWL of the teachers.

The global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has enormously induced psychological impacts on humans like fear. Considering this particular concern, there is a need to test instruments used to measure such psychological impact. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19) Scale originally developed by Ahorsu et al. (2020). A sample of 1,060 K to 12 professional teachers from Mindanao, Philippines were selected to participate in the online survey. The preliminary analysis showed a high level of perceived fear of COVID-19 in the respondents of this study. The results of the series of tests are encouraging as the FCV-19 Scale generated a robust construct validity for both one- and two- factor structure models and a very high internal consistency complemented by strong inter-item correlations and item-total correlations. The results further supported the concurrent validity of the FCV-19 Scale with selected COVID-19-related characteristics significantly predicting fear of COVID-19. Overall, this paper provides an assessment of the fear of COVID-19 in a sample of professional teachers and the properties of the FCV-19 Scale in a particular context. The FCV-19 Scale, a seven-item scale, is a valid and reliable measure that can be used to assess the fear of COVID-19 of Filipino teachers.

This study analyzes the implementation of the KiVa Antibullyiing program in Spain with 10 pioneer schools. This research has two aims. The first is a preliminary evaluation of the KiVa program’s implementation in the pioneer schools in Spain. To do so, the perceived levels of bullying and victimization have been analyzed through the surveys done anonymously by the students of 10 KiVa schools before and after the program’s implementation. The second is to identify the factors which explain the phenomenon with a view to knowing the background of the victims and the bullies and proposing courses of action. To do so, the school environment (atmosphere in the classroom and in the school), the perception of the students concerning teachers and parents in relation with the phenomenon (attitude, capacity and behavior) and the communication of the victims were analyzed in their environment in the case of bullying. In the empirical study, analyses were performed of the prevalence of bullying before and after the first year of program’s implementation, as well as an analysis of independence and multiple correspondences. This enables identifying the key variables and drawing conclusions about how the children surveyed live out school bullying in the pioneer Spanish KiVa schools, and what aspects should guide other schools interested in preventing bullying.