Adriana Gamazo

Universidad de Salamanca · Departamento de Didáctica, Organización y Métodos de Investigación

Las titulaciones de educación superior tienen entre sus funciones principales ofrecer una educación de calidad para formar a los trabajadores del mañana, para lo cual deben reforzar el desarrollo de competencias que faciliten su empleabilidad. Además, esta empleabilidad se verá positivamente afectada por una buena implementación de acciones orienta...

The 10th edition of the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2022) brings together researchers and postgraduate students interested in combining different aspects of the technology applied to knowledge society development, with particular attention to educational and learning issues. This volume includes contributions relat...

La Orientación Educativa es una disciplina con una gran repercusión en el desarrollo de la vida de las personas dado su vinculación con el ámbito educativo en contextos escolares y no escolares. Desde su doble vertiente, como ciencia y profesión, da respuesta a necesidades sociales de diversa índole mediante ayuda especializada. Si bien, su avance...

Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students. Dim...

The article aims to assess the degree of acquisition and importance of the competencies developed in the Degree in Pedagogy in the University of Salamanca (Spain), differentiating between employed and non-employed graduates. 78 graduates filled an ad-hoc questionnaire validated by experts. After the quantitative analysis of the data gathered, the r...

International large-scale assessments, such as PISA, provide structured and static data. However, due to its extensive databases, several researchers place it as a reference in Big Data in Education. With the goal of exploring which factors at country, school and student level have a higher relevance in predicting student performance, this paper pr...

Resumen-En el marco de la reforma educativa integral de las universidades marroquíes, el proyecto de hermanamiento financiado por la Unión Europea tiene el objetivo general de acompañar, asistir y promover la reforma del sistema de enseñanza superior de Marruecos en el marco de su visión estratégica 2015-2030 y su enfoque del Espacio Europeo la Ens...

Within the framework of the comprehensive educational reform of Moroccan universities, the twinning project financed by the European Union has the general objective of accompanying, assisting and promoting the reform of the Moroccan higher education system within the framework of its strategic vision 2015-2030 and its approach to the European Highe...

The academic performance's assessment has always been a topic of great interest in the field of educational research. For this reason, for some decades now, different international organisations have been trying to measure academic performance in order to adjust educational policies in the search for improved performance and school efficiency. One...

With the main goal of identifying the process factors associated with school effectiveness in secondary education, this work presents an innovative methodological proposal. Based on secondary data from the Spanish sample of PISA 2015, high- and low-effectiveness schools were selected by analysing the residuals of the school level (level 2) in multi...

During the last decade, the use of AIs is being incorporated into the educational field whether to support the analysis of human behavior in teaching-learning contexts, as didactic resource combined with other technologies or as a tool for the assessment of the students.

This study aims to analyze which student- and school-level context factors have a significant relationship with student achievement in the three competences assessed by PISA 2015 (Reading, Mathematics and Science) in Mexico. Through the use of multilevel modelling, we analyzed data from over 6 700 students from 189 schools, concluding that the fact...

In the past two decades, large-scale assessment schemes, such as PISA, have been set up at an international level as accountability tools for education systems, whose results and conclusions bear relevant repercussions for education systems and policies around the world. While the guidelines for student sampling and exclusion are explained in detai...

This research work explores the results of the psychometric analysis of the items related to school coexistence within the Assessment of Basic Conditions for Teaching and Learning in Upper Secondary Education (ECEA-MS in Spanish). The analyses conducted were: normality, internal consistency and exploratory factor analysis with principal axis factor...

After having celebrated the "Evaluation in education and guidance" track in TEEM17 in Cádiz (Spain), we return for this fifth edition of TEEM18 to Salamanca (Spain), to carry on with the presentation of research works dealing with the topics mentioned throughout this introductory paper. In the previous editions we have presented the advances of the...

The search for non-contextual process factors associated with school effectiveness has become a line of research with very broad dissemination, primarily from the ubiquity of research that includes analysis of secondary data from large-scale evaluations. With the aim of detecting ICT factors related to school effectiveness from the Spanish sample o...

The global integration of competence-based education and training systems and the search for a generalized common framework for the incorporation of key competences in the curriculums of national education systems have generated a growing need for information literacy as a way of advancing to the awaited knowledge society. Large-scale assessments o...

Assessment1 is a key element of the teaching-learning process, and it is necessary to innovate in this field in order to adjust it to the demands of the ever-changing educational landscape in which we live. This paper presents an innovation project that aims to assess and monitor the development of the competences that university students must acqu...

The study of school effectiveness has gained relevance in the past few decades. The availability of data pertaining both to student performance and to the socio-economic, demographic, organisational and educational features of students and schools has allowed for the proliferation of studies on the relationship of all kinds of variables with studen...

The past decade has seen a rise in the interest of policy-makers in the topic of key competences in the field of Higher Education. New guidelines for the development of student competences have been set out, both at European and national level, mainly aiming to facilitate the adaptation of the students to the demands of the labour market. Our resea...

In this paper, we describe the advances that have been made in a line of research on educational assessment between the years 2006 and 2016, within the research Group on "Evaluation in education and guidance", integrated in the GRIAL group and the University Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of Salamanca (Spain).

The concept of school effectiveness puts the data on student assessment into perspective by taking into consideration context factors such as the socio-economic level of the students, resulting in a more equitable way of assessing school achievement. Therefore, the study of factors that can foster or hinder school effectiveness is an important fiel...