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The objective of this research is to quantify the relationship between emotional intelligence and performance in mathematics (numerical-variational thinking and geometric-metric thinking) in first-year engineering students at the Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo located in the state of Sonora, Mexico. The research is supported by the theory of emotional intelligence of Reuven Bar-On and in the “Mathematical Knowledge and Skills Test” with reference framework of the Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education. The methodology is quantitative. Linear correlation was applied to find the degree of relationship between the variables emotional intelligence and mathematics; through the one-way analysis of variance, the socio-school context factors associated with performance in mathematics and emotional intelligence were determined; and with the cluster analysis of K-means, the profiles of the student were generated by performance in mathematics: acceptable, intermediate and deficient; the finding concluded implies that the schooling of the student’s mother, the student’s general high school average and the school of origin are related to numerical-variational and geometric-metric thoughts; the finding of a weak relationship between emotional intelligence with numerical-variational and geometric-metric thoughts is also concluded.

This article presents the results of the first stage from a research project related to digital competences development on teachers for the indigenous contexts. In this part of the research project, an educational needs diagnosis was developed, to assess the digital competences profile in students of the bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Basic Education for Indigenous Context of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Unidad 211, in Puebla, Mexico. Data was collected employing a virtual course management system accessed from internet, and solving an on-line questionnaire that included information analysis units that were related to knowledge and use of tools from information and communication technologies, the skill rate, use frequency, and the attitude towards the use of this technology on teaching. The field survey was deployed between May to August 2019. The data collected serve as input for the next stage of the research project, which will be responsible for the design of a formative program on digital competences development.

The Covid-19 pandemic not only mobilized the sanitary and health fields, for the Universities also had to rethink and adopt emerging measures that could enable to continue with the educational programs without affecting the members of the schooling process; that is why several institutions decided to adopt digital platforms in which they could teach virtual classes, however, not all of them have the accessibility required by a student with disability. This paper analyzes the viability of the MS Teams platform as an educational strategy adopted by the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León as an emerging measure to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a case study were obtained the perspective of five deft students, who are part of the inclusion program of the Mechanical and Electrician Engineering School. The results obtained show the way in which students with hearing disabilities make accessible their class by themselves, either with the use of technological tools and even extracurricular work to implement subtitles in recorded sessions, so they can be reviewed later. The conclusions allow us to identify an opportunity area in the analysis of streaming and remote work platforms used as emerging measure during the pandemic...

This article is a summary of an academic master’s research that addresses the use of problem solving in initial mathematics teacher training. This work aims to present the results regarding the observation of the epistemic concepts of teachers in initial training in the context of solving didactic situations, which address the content of Number Sequences, according to the assumptions of the Theory of Didactical Situations supported by GeoGebra software. The methodology followed the stages of Didactic Engineering that was used in the planning of didactic situations and data analysis, creating a teaching and training environment with direct participation in problem-solving and knowledge construction. From the analysis of an application, it was found as a result the manifestation of other comprehension skills of understanding the subject of Number Sequences that were not expected in the a priori analysis, as well as another discovery was the satisfaction of using the GeoGebra application on the cell phone to solve problems. It is concluded that working with problems from the Mathematics Olympics helped in the initial training of mathematics teachers, either in the elaboration of conjectures, in the deepening of the contents, and the development of strategies during the problem-solving action.

This article shows the results of a systematic review of the literature on teaching strategies and experimentation experiences used in science teaching to analyze the contribution of the use of modern scientific concepts, and the development of skills in science and technology, showing as well the integration and solution of problems and laboratory practices that facilitate dialogue and the presentation of one’s ideas, in addition to obtaining information on the desirable characteristics that technological tools or devices applied to education that favor the development of scientific skills in students should consider. The conformation of the study corpus was carried out using logical Boolean operators in the Scopus and Dialnet databases. The grouping-analysis criteria were teaching strategies and school laboratory or experimentation experiences. The results show that the didactic strategies used do contribute to the development of scientific skills and basic concepts in science. School experimentation activities based or not on technology such as virtual, remote, or electronic laboratories facilitate the experience of scientific inquiry at school, having problem-solving as an area of opportunity.

With the idea of exploring the current condition of teaching statistics in Mexican higher secondary education (HSE), the objective of this article is to identify the approach of teaching statistics promoted by syllabuses of this discipline in HSE. Based on the theoretical ideas of the statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking approaches, a set of indicators were constructed to analyze, following a documentary research technique, eight statistics syllabuses of the main HSE subsystems in the country. The results show that, although the syllabuses show elements of the three approaches, most of these programs seem to promote teaching aimed at the development of elements of a statistical literacy. The importance of some conditions of statistics teaching in HSE are highlighted and a teaching that promotes elements of statistical reasoning and thinking is discussed.  

The objective of this article is to analyze the configuration of citizenship in young people from a high school institution, that is, to make explicit the process through which this population builds citizen practices. The research was designed as a qualitative ethnographic proposal, resorting to the ethnosociological perspective and in turn relying on the biographical and sociocultural approach to obtain and treat empirical references. Among the main results we can identify: the recognition of the citizenship configuration process in young people called Youth citizenship, as well as the constitution of four types of citizen practices: positioning practices, border practices, intervention practices and recognition practices.

This work aims to determine how the factors of top management and users training influence their satisfaction through the quality of IT service, and the perceived usefulness of the information systems (IS) of higher-level educational institutions in the center of Tamaulipas, Mexico. 141 questionnaires were collected and analyzed using the variance-based structural equation modeling technique. Of the constructs considered, the support and usefulness of senior management had the most significant associations. The findings provide practical implications on how to increase the effectiveness of IS in organizations.

Teaching practice can cause discomfort in some teachers and affect several areas of both their professional and personal life. There are several reasons that contribute to the suffering in teachers; therefore, the aim of this research was to analyze the biological, psychological, and social status of a university professor and identify some current teaching practice problems, prior to the social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to achieve this, the case of a teacher who has taught for 24 years at the higher education level is being presented. This research is approached from a qualitative, descriptive, and interpretative perspective due to its scope, based on an in-depth interview and institutional analysis framework. The results are presented as a novel that highlights the discomfort experienced by some teachers. The participant’s narrative helped in the analysis of the main biopsychosocial repercussions presented in some members of the Mexican teaching profession and the elements involved in their professional practice.

The educational path of doctoral students to carry out their research is accompanied by complex academic reading processes; however, there is scarce research that carries out an analysis in this regard, and about the pedagogical function the thesis supervisor can perform to promote the development of this type of reading. Given this situation, in this essay, based on an analysis of studies that focus or are like this topic, the challenges that doctoral students need to face when carrying out different types of reading according to the different processes of their research are made visible. Likewise, pedagogical resources that can be applied by thesis supervisors are addressed to contribute to the development of an academic reading focused on research, in which the training process of the doctoral student is considered. In addition to this, the need to carry out studies that allow a greater understanding of the academic reading processes of the doctoral students is pointed out, as well as the development of systematized pedagogical strategies that the thesis supervisor can apply to favor them, in accordance with the training process of the student and his disciplinary field.