Lourdes Villardón

Lourdes Villardón
University of Deusto | DEUSTO · Faculty of Psychology and Education

PhD

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This chapter compares the evolution of day-to-day, informal, workplace learning and work-based training arrangements in the metals sector in Bulgaria and Spain’s Basque region. The latter’s advanced, industrialised economic model is rather different from other Spanish regions. Basque country institutions successfully link vocational education with...
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Academic and social-emotional experiences during the university years influence students’ academic achievement and emotional well-being. However, there is insufficient evidence on how the numerical representation of same-gendered persons affects such experiences in each group. The aim of this research was to analyze university experiences within de...
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Background: Gender-based violence is a worldwide public health problem that is increasingly occurring at younger ages. This investigation aims to analyze effective interventions to prevent and to face gender-based violence beginning in early childhood in order to ensure quality education for all children through violence-free schools. Methods: T...
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Despite the abundance of the literature reflecting peer facilitators' short-term gains, the long-term merits of once acting as a peer facilitator still represent a blank space in the academic literature. This retrospective qualitative case study employs Personal Meaning Maps and semi-structured interviews to explore five former peer facilitators' n...
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Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency i...
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The acquisition of oral communication skills is essential for lifelong learning and development. Despite their importance, specific approaches oriented to its acquisition and mastery in second languages (L2) are not widely established. Indeed, the prevalence of a monologic classroom discourse still hinders the opportunities to enhance language prod...
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The basic competences (such as Information Acquisition and Management; Understanding and Expression of Information and Emotions; Competence to Do and Undertake; Competence to Live Together; and Competence to Be) are necessary to achieve adequate personal, social and professional development. This study develops and validates, through Confirmatory F...
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Existe un consenso a nivel internacional sobre la importancia de garantizar la participación igualitaria de todo el alumnado, incluido aquel con necesidades especiales. Décadas de investigación han evidenciado que el diálogo y las interacciones son clave para el aprendizaje y el desarrollo. Sin embargo, se sabe menos sobre cómo garantizar la partic...
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Una educación de calidad para todas y todos requiere un profesorado competente. Un análisis de las funciones que tienen que desarrollar deriva en un perfil de competencias docentes. Conocer la percepción del profesorado sobre la relevancia de dichas competencias y sobre su nivel de realización en la práctica permite identificar puntos fuertes y áre...
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The goal of this study is to determine the extent to which faculty training in Cooperative Learning (CL) transfers to university teaching, according to students’ opinions. The design was qua-si-experimental, with a control group and an intervention group during two years, 346 first-year university Business School students and 12 university teachers...
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The risk for many young children from minority backgrounds of being excluded from a quality education might be reduced through the creation of a positive classroom climate. A systematic review was conducted to gain a better understanding of the pedagogical and structural aspects that foster a positive classroom climate in multicultural early childh...
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p>La identidad profesional del profesorado afecta a la forma de ser y actuar como profesor (1). Por ello, es importante trabajarla específicamente en la formación inicial. La interacción, la reflexión y la acción han demostrado ser elementos formativos eficaces para trabajar la identidad profesional en la formación inicial del profesorado. En esta...
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(1) Background: The aim of Second Chance Schools (E2Cs) is to provide employment-focused training for young people who left compulsory education without any formal qualifications by encouraging them to pursue initial vocational training. Transversal Competences (TCs) are important for enabling the social inclusion of young people in vulnerable situ...
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Family participation and involvement in schools has been reported to be crucial for improving academic achievement and social cohesion, especially among those systematically excluded such as migrants or the Roma population. However, these families often participate less in school life. This hinders any attempt to reverse the cycle of inequality exp...
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Taking a communicative approach in a qualitative inquiry entails including people’s voices through dialogues that are egalitarian and oriented toward transformation. This approach aligns with the transformative paradigm in the pursuit of ensuring the inclusion of the most vulnerable groups. This article explores the role of the communicative approa...
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Peer interactions in early childhood education play a key role in establishing the first structures of social relationships and foundations for future development. Engaging in social exchanges with different people enriches children’s concurrent and future learning opportunities. Building on the importance of diversifying interactions, interactive...
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A través de este capítulo se quiere hacer una contribución a la optimización de la aplicación de la estrategia tutoría entre iguales a través de dos vías. En primer lugar, realizando una clarificación conceptual de la estrategia, conocida también como peer support, peer-assisted learning and peer teaching, sus fundamentos y sus características, así...
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The purpose of this article is to illuminate the conceptualisations and applications of the Belmont Report’s key ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice based on a document analysis of five of the most relevant disciplinary guidelines on internet research in the social sciences. These seminal documents are meant to provi...
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Many studies and publications have been devoted to the analysis and development of teacher identity from different points of view, using diverse instruments and methodologies and analyzing different dimensions of identity. Despite the scrutiny, it is still a challenge to understand and define an issue as complex as professional identity. Although t...
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Background: There is growing evidence and awareness regarding the magnitude of mental health issues across the globe, starting half of those before the age of 14 and have lifelong effects on individuals and society. Despite the multidimensional nature of this global challenge, which necessarily require comprehensive approaches, many interventions p...
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Aquest article examina l’experiència d’un projecte d’educació intercultural en dos centres d’educació primària amb presència d’alumnat estranger molt poc significativa, numèricament parlant. L’objectiu de l’estudi és doble. En primer lloc, analitzar el procés de posada en marxa de les activitats proposades i en segon lloc contribuir al debat teòric...
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Doctoral studies lead to the highest level of academic qualification, promoting the development of competences that enable individuals to perform as leaders in the generation of scientific knowledge and its application in the improvement of society, through research and innovation. The process of acquiring competences involves a demanding and long-...
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Teachers’ social prestige is a factor that affects teachers’ identity and quality of education. This research aims to analyze education undergraduate and master students’ perception about the teacher’s social image. Participants in this research were 147 first year and 117 fourth year Undergraduate students in Primary Education, and 59 Master’s stu...
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Prosocial behavior consists of a set of behaviors that are beneficial to others in the form of sharing and helping. It includes aspects such as solidarity and friendship, and it fosters development and positive psychological functioning; it also improves classroom and school climate. Interactive learning environments may play a crucial role in crea...
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Faced with the challenges posed by the knowledge society, compulsory education must ensure to produce responsible, competent citizens committed to improving their environment. This aim requires re-thinking teachers’ work and having a teaching staff involved in the development of teaching competences that will allow them to effectively perform their...
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Introducción. El conocimiento sobre lo que significa investigar para los investigadores en formación en el contexto español es prácticamente inexistente. La finalidad de este estudio es analizar las concepciones sobre la investigación de los estudiantes de doctorado en ciencias sociales y la relación de estas concepciones con algunas variables rele...
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Introducción. El bajo logro y el escaso compromiso en matemáticas de los estudiantes de secundaria están estrechamente relacionados con sus actitudes hacia la asignatura. A pesar de la amplia investigación existente al respecto, una revisión exhaustiva de la literatura sobre instrumentos para su medición concluye con la inconsistencia en la definic...
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Introducción. Entre las estrategias afectivas como forma de afrontar estados afectivos vinculados al proceso de aprendizaje se incluyen aquellas orientadas al control de emociones y las enfocadas a la motivación; ambas influyen directa o indirectamente en el rendimiento. El objetivo de esta investigación fue diseñar un instrumento para medir las es...
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Introduction. In the Spanish context, very little is known about what research means for researchers in training. The goal of this study is twofold: to analyze the research conceptions held by doctoral students in the Social Sciences, and to evaluate how those conceptions relate to several relevant variables in the process of researcher training. M...
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Secondary students’ low achievement and engagement in mathematics is known to relate closely to their math anxiety. Despite the international body of research, the theoretical conceptualization of the construct math anxiety is still debated, showing strong discrepancies regarding its factor structure. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to develop...
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The goal of this research has been to design and validate an instrument to evaluate the assessment process in higher education from the perspective of a learning-oriented assessment, characterized by incorporating evaluation activities as learning activities, involve students in the process and provide accurate feedback to guide changes towards imp...
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Resumen:El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido diseñar y validar un instrumento para evaluar la práctica evaluadora en la enseñanza universitaria desde un enfoque de Evaluación Orientada al Aprendizaje, caracterizado por incorporar las actividades de evaluación como actividades de aprendizaje, implicar a los estudiantes en el proceso y ofrecer r...
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Conceptions about teaching are important because they affect professional performance. Metaphors are a tool to identify them. In this qualitative study metaphors are used to gain insight into conceptions held by pre-service teachers, and their development during Initial Teacher Training in the Bachelor’s Degree in Primary Education. A total of 247...
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The skills for job are highly valued in the labor market; therefore, their development is fundamental in all people and especially in those at risk of exclusion, as they act as a factor of inclusion through entry into the labor world. In spite of their importance, there are not always worked and systematically evaluated in training institutions. Th...
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The adoption of an educational model that is geared towards equipping students with key life skills involves a shift in approaches and actions to be undertaken in schools and the transformation of the roles to be performed by teachers. Previous review and analysis of the tasks that should be performed by compulsory education teachers, as establishe...
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p>El objetivo de la investigación es el análisis de las condiciones, emociones y sentimientos asociadas al momento de la jubilación del profesorado universitario. En este artículo se analiza el caso de la Universidad de Deusto, a través de las respuestas de 81 profesoras y profesores activos, jubilados y eméritos a un cuestionario sobre su experien...
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Resumen: El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido diseñar y validar un instrumento para evaluar la práctica evaluadora en la enseñanza universitaria desde un enfoque de Evaluación Orientada al Aprendizaje, caracterizado por incorporar las actividades de evaluación como actividades de aprendizaje, implicar a los estudiantes en el proceso y ofrecer...
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Introduction. In secondary education, students’ low achievement and engagement in mathematics are closely related to their attitudes towards the subject. Despite the international body of research, an exhaustive literature review of the existing instruments for measuring it draws attention to the inconsistency in the definition and corresponding fa...
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This chapter focuses on an inquiry-based learning experience conducted with a group of 17 students of the Master’s Degree for Secondary Education Teacher Training with two key objectives: (a) to start the process of developing their own professional identity and (b) to develop research competences. Two questions guide the inquiry process: Which pro...
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Experiencias Las tertulias literarias dialógicas (TLD) fueron algo completamente diferente en esta escuela de Cambridgeshire. A través de interacciones dialógicas entre alumnado y profesorado, mejoraron al mismo tiempo sus resultados académicos y sus relaciones, compartiendo palabras y sentimientos profundos. Tertul i as l i terari as di al ógi cas...
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Se presentan reflexiones en torno a la importancia de las competencias genéricas en educación superior y en torno a los principios metodológicos para su desarrollo
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There is solid evidence that high quality Early Childhood Education (ECE hereafter) have substantial impact on later life outcomes. A growing literature suggests that interventions that develop social competency as well as cognitive, language and academic skills in the earliest years play a role in later educational, social and economic success. Le...
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Introduction: This article describes an experience carried out with a group of students from the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training where Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) is applied to train future educational counselors. Method: The subject Educational Research and Innovation is structured around the task of evaluating an educatio...
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A key moment in the construction of Secondary School teachers’ professional identity takes place during the Master's Degree that qualifies and enables them to be teachers for this educational stage. Thus, one of the main objectives of the initial training for future teachers is to spark a shift in their preconceptions regarding teachers.
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There are numerous research on the experiences of academic mobility in Europe, fueled by the Erasmus program and its effects. These studies found multiple evidence that these activities have a positive impact in individual, institutional and political level. According to these studies, the student mobility contributes to the personal development of...
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This article describes theoretical foundations underlying the design of Plan for Teacher Training and Development to implement at the University of Deusto educational model. It describes the structure, planning and development processes and evaluation results of this Plan in each of its three phases. Reflections about experience and implications fo...
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Los profesores son considerados personas clave para poner en práctica la educación inclusiva. Por lo tanto, conocer sus actitudes hacia este campo es importante para el logro del cambio educativo. El objetivo de este estudio es, en consecuencia, conocer las actitudes hacia la inclusión educativa del docente de inglés en formación en la Universidad...
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One of the educational aims of teacher training is the construction of a professional identity. The goal of this investigation is to examine what concept of the teaching profession a sample of the students from the Master’s in Secondary Education has. To carry through the study, 35 students of the Master answered an open question questionnaire at t...
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In this study, a scale was designed to measure the level of application of Cooperative Learning in Higher Education. The Cooperative Learning Application Scale (CLAS) comprises seven dimensions: Positive interdependence, interaction, social skills, group reflection, heterogeneity, assessment and tutoring. The sample consisted of a total of 1470 stu...
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This book provides university teaching strategies to develop generic skills. It focuses on some selected competences according to criteria of utility, transversality and presence in the professional profiles: self-regulated learning: competence to learn, written communication, teamwork, entrepreneurial competence, interpersonal competence.
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Estrategias y técnicas para aprender a aprender. Aprendizaje experiencial. Una propuesta metodológica para aprender a aprender. Aprendizaje Basado en Investigación
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RESUMEN La construcción de la identidad profesional es una de las metas educativas de la formación del maestro/a. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el cambio de la imagen profesional del estudiante del Grado en Educación Primaria durante sus estudios. Han participado en la investigación 134 estudiantes de último curso del Grado en Edu...
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Estrategias y recursos para el desarrollo de competencias genéricas en educación superior.
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Introduction. Among affective strategies as a way to face affective states linked to the learn-ing process are included those emotion-control-oriented and those motivation-control-oriented strategies. Both of them affect direct and indirectly to the learning efficiency. The objective of this research is to design an instrument for measuring the aff...
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Employment and its vocational dimension are key elements for the identity of 21st century citizens. At the same time, unemployment is a major problem requiring a study of the variables that contribute to improving conditions for finding a job. Collaboration between training and the labour market improves employability as it promotes two of its main...
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Abstract: There are numerous research on the experiences of academic mobility in Europe, fueled by the Erasmus program and its effects. These studies found multiple evidence that these activities have a positive impact in individual, institutional and political level. According to these studies, the student mobility contributes to the personal deve...
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The significance of a teacher as an educator and trainer of proactive, capable, flexible and committed citizens is undeniable. Thus, it is important that teachers be proficient to adequately fulfill their duties. Teachers' beliefs about the teaching profession, training, class organization, etc. influence in their teaching behaviour. Therefore,...
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Son numerosas las investigaciones realizadas sobre las experiencias de movilidad académica en Europa, propiciadas por el programa Erasmus y sus efectos. En dichos trabajos se encuentran múltiples evidencias de que estas actividades tienen un impacto positivo tanto a nivel individual como institucional y político. Según dichos estudios, la movilidad...
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Table of contents Introduction (Paweł Bryła) 1. Erasmus mobility and employability research (Robert Brown, Basagaitz Guereño-Omil, Kevin Hannam) 1.1. Introduction 1.2. The aims of the Erasmus programme 1.3. Mobilities and Employability Research for Generation Erasmus (MERGE) 1.4. Erasmus in a European migration and integration context 1.5. The soc...
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The main objective of this study isto analyse the effects of Erasmus on the mobility and employability of former students, and to identify which elements of the Erasmus experience have had the greatest impact upon their career choices and opportunities. Thus, the research will contribute to the challenges of analysing and promoting mobility within...
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This article summarizes a longitudinal research project to identify and develop values in university students. The aims of the study were: to identify the values needed to achieve the graduate student profile the university hoped to promote; to compare student value profiles at the beginning and end of their time at university; and to develop a ser...
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Este artículo resume una investigación longitudinal realizada para identificar y desarrollar valores en estudiantes universitarios. Los objetivos que han dirigido este estudio son: identificar los valores necesarios para lograr el perfil del egresado de la universidad y de la titulación; comparar los perfiles de valores de los grupos de estudiantes...
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p>En este artículo se describe una propuesta de un Plan de Tutoría y Apoyo para estudiantes de doctorado diseñada y llevada a cabo por el equipo Desarrollo de Competencias y Valores de la Universidad de Deusto. Dicho Plan pretende aportar estrategias para la formación de los investigadores del equipo y se plantea como una alternativa para evitar la...
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This paper describes a proposal of a Tutoring and Support Plan for PhD students, designed and conducted by the Competences and Values Development Team of Deusto University. This plan aims to provide the training of the members of the research team with strategies and it is also conceived as an alternative to avoid the feeling of loneliness experien...
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This research focused on designing and validating a scale to assess the level of learning competence in university students. Learning competence refers to the acquisition, selection and integrated mobilization of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for continuous, life-long learning. The development of this competence is a basic training g...
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This study aims to examine the relationship between the learning competence and the autonomy value. The values underlying autonomy and the theoretical dimensions of the learning competence were described. Scales to collect information on these constructs were drawn up and validated. Nearly 500 university students from five different faculties at th...
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This study aims to examine the relationship between the learning competence and the autonomy value. The values underlying autonomy and the theoretical dimensions of the learning competence were described. Scales to collect information on these constructs were drawn up and validated. Nearly 500 university students from five different faculties at th...
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This research delves into unemployed people's perceptions of their employability competences. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with twenty-six unemployed people in Bilbao, Spain. Based on the interpretation of information from an educational perspective, interventions in the field of vocational guidanc...
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The teacher’s perception of their teaching self-efficacy includes a whole set of beliefs about their own ability to teach and to exert a positive effect on student learning. These beliefs are linked to behaviour patterns that teachers show in the classroom, and that establish marked differences in the type of teaching and in the strategies and...
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Introduction: This research presents the validated proposal of an entrepreneur competency profile. We analyzed the phases of the entrepreneurial process, and the functions involved in each of them, in order to identify the tasks involved in each function/role and consequently the specific competencies of entrepreneurs. Method: The proposal was vali...
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Abstract Introduction. This research introduces a validated proposal of the competence profile of the entrepreneurial individual. We analyzed the phases of the entrepreneurial process and the functions involved in each of them, in order to identify the tasks involved in each func-tion/role and consequently also the specific competences of entrepren...
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The teacher's perception of their teaching self-efficacy includes a whole set of beliefs about their own ability to teach and to exert a positive effect on student learning. These beliefs are linked to behaviour patterns that teachers show in the classroom, and that establish marked differences in the type of teaching and in the strategies and meth...
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In higher education, generic skills are considered appropriate for the majority of studies because are important for this level of education. On the one hand, these competences in!uence how people act in their professional performance. Furthermore, they show how the universities do expect graduated people to exercise their work tasks and functions...
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Adapting and including student-centred strategies, methodologies and techniques that foster the competence to be learned and encourage independent learning is one of the major challenges that university teachers are faced with. The success of these teaching activities and practices depends to a great extent on teachers’ self perception and confide...
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One of the key ways to take a closer look at the values of society today and of organisations in the near future is to find out the values of university students, young people and future professionals in different organisations. The actions and decisions made by individuals and organisations are based on values. Therefore, it is vital to analyse an...
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his article shows the learning assessment system used in a subject included in a university degree programme. It is coherent with a competence-based approach and has been put forth to foster the development of these competences and evaluate students’ performance. After having reviewed the competence assessment principles and having made proposals t...
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Tal y como recoge la LOU (Ley Orgánica de Universidades, 2001), la Universidad ocupa un lugar central en el proceso de renovación social y económica, específicamente en los sectores vinculados al desarrollo cultural, científico y técnico y, por tanto, debe responder a la sociedad, potenciando la formación y la investigación de excelencia. El proc...
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In compliance with the approaches put forth in the process of European convergence, the move from a teaching-centred model to a learning- centred one has called for a major attitude change for all the agents involved in the education system. The aim is to discontinue the old educational system based on teaching and implement one centred on learning...