Mª Cruz Sánchez-Gómez

University of Salamanca · Departamento de Didáctica, Organización y Métodos de Investigación

The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) sector is an academic and professional field with high gender disparity figures despite being a field with a low unemployment rate. The “Questionnaire with University Students on STEM Studies in Higher Education” (QSTEMHE) was designed to determine the opinion of the Spanish university po...

La investigación sobre el ocio del alumnado universitario es pertinente porque proporciona insights cruciales para diseñar intervenciones educativas y sociales que promuevan un equilibrio saludable entre el ámbito académico y el bienestar integral de la juventud en la sociedad contemporánea. El estudio presentando se propon averiguar la tipología,...

Resumen La detección e intervención temprana en menores con autismo es primordial para paliar los posibles efectos colaterales del neurodesarrollo. Está comprobado científicamente que con alto grado de fia-bilidad se puede realizar a los dos años de edad, una vez que se produzcan los primeros signos de alarma. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer...

There is an urgent need to deepen understanding of the particular experience of family caregivers of people with early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. In this effort, we aim to identify the socio-demographic variables associated with social support, self-efficacy and coping strategies. Not belonging to the family lineage carrying the disease-ca...

Conocer a qué alternativas de ocio dedican su tiempo libre los estudiantes universitarios y si estas son saludables o no es una preocupación socioeducativa. Son los objetivos de cada persona y su personalidad los que condicionan qué tipo de ocio se consume. Entre los espacios de ocio se encuentra el ocio digital. En el contexto del Proyecto de Inno...

The aim of this paper is to delimit the main lines of research on the use of exergames by elderly adults through a literature review. The search for studies was carried out in the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases. A series of inclusion and exclusion criteria were established for the literature review and evaluation. The design used for the conte...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar las investigaciones de pregrado en Literatura de una universidad peruana. Se realizó el mapeo sistemático de diez trabajos publicados entre el 2017 y 2022. Los resultados evidencian preferencia por la investigación en literatura peruana y que el género literario más estudiado es el narrativo. Se concluye que...

La Educación Superior demanda nuevas herramientas que se adapten a la sociedad del conocimiento y motiven al alumnado en áreas complejas como son las matemáticas. Nuestra investigación se desarrolló en el Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, donde se ha implementado una nueva plataforma virtual, que pretende ayudar al alumnado en su aprendizaje. El...

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees represent a future employment scenario with low unemployment rates due to the high demand for qualified personnel. However, the STEM sector also represents an educational field marked by horizontal segregation and the gender gap. Different factors play a role in deciding which higher...

Horizontal gender segregation exists in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The QSTEMHE instrument has been applied to study the phenomenon of the gender gap. The answers obtained to one of its open questions have been analysed: whether it is considered that there are typical studies and professions for men and women, and what...

Living Labs are spaces and laboratories for social innovation. The main objective of these labs is to improve people's quality of life, as well as the functioning of regions, companies, etc. The elderly population is one of the target areas of Living Lab initiatives. These Senior Labs are aimed at improving the quality of life of older people. Acti...

Initial Teacher Training and training in Comprehensive Sexuality Education contributes to the quality of education and has a positive impact on students’ learning processes. With a view to an adequate articulation of the topic within this group, this study is carried out with the objective of defining the categories found from the perspectives of t...

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...

In the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, there is a significant gap in access to higher education and this gap increases when it comes to access to STEM careers. Furthermore, the percentage of women who have access is even lower. For this reason, this work aims to design and validate a mentoring model with gender perspectives within higher education to faci...

The current education model for key competencies sets a guided path through the official curriculum, often delivered through an autonomous and repetitive approach by the education centres. Therefore, based on Dewey and Kolb’s experiential learning concepts, several experiential activities have been designed for Astronomy education to be offered by...

Besides providing the consulted publication’s findings, the literature review can offer information through metadata. Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) can support visualising bibliometric metadata through RIS files. The usefulness is to provide an interactive image of the reality and actuality of scientific production....

Self-efficacy is based on Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory and from this perspective the objective of this study is to examine the relationship between academic writing and self-efficacy beliefs for writing in undergraduate university students. The sample consisted of 176 participants, 114 women and 62 men, from a Peruvian public university. Quant...

Actualmente, en la formación de estudios superiores se requiere que los egresados hayan adquirido unos conocimientos básicos en investigación. Tal es así que deben finalizar sus estudios con un trabajo fin de grado, o de máster, o si han avanzado hacia una carrera más enfocada a la indagación, culminar con un pro-yecto de investigación o una tesis...

The development of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) requires more qualified professionals in these fields. However, gender segregation in higher education in this sector is creating a gender gap that means that for some disciplines female representation does not even reach 30% of the total. In order to propose measures to ad...

The academic literature confirms the difference between the perspectives of students and professors when designing and applying teaching methodologies. This paper uses the case of entrepreneurship teaching in doctoral programs to point out the differences between both groups when designing the content of the modules. It also highlights the need to...

Introduction: With the failure of dating applications for technological devices, various questions have been generated around the psychosocial variables that circulate inside and outside of them. Objectives: The objective of this study focuses on Tinder (dating application), which has grown in popularity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, ra...

The academic literature confirms the difference between the perspectives of students and professors when designing and applying teaching methodologies. This paper uses the case of entrepreneurship teaching in doctoral programs to point out the differences between both groups when designing the content of the modules. It also highlights the need to...

The academic literature confirms the difference between the perspectives of students and professors when designing and applying teaching methodologies. This paper uses the case of entrepreneurship teaching in doctoral programs to point out the differences between both groups when designing the content of the modules. It also highlights the need to...

Nos encontramos en una sociedad en la que el aprendizaje ha cambiado vertiginosamente, debido a diversos factores como la mejora de la tecnología educativa, la pandemia provocada por el COVID-19 o el avance de la sociedad del conocimiento. Es por ello, que no solo es importante formar al alumnado en los contenidos de los currículos oficiales de cad...

Nos encontramos en una sociedad en la que el aprendizaje ha cambiado vertiginosamente, debido a diversos factores como la mejora de la tecnología educativa, la pandemia provocada por el COVID-19 o el avance de la sociedad del conocimiento. Es por ello, que no solo es importante formar al alumnado en los contenidos de los currículos oficiales de cad...

Objetivos: El rol de cuidador familiar impacta en la vida de la persona y se considera que dicho impacto continúa tras el fallecimiento de la persona cuidada. Sin embargo, existe muy poca evidencia sobre la experiencia de los postcuidadores familiares en la reconstrucción de su vida cotidiana. Por ello, el objetivo de este trabajo es explorar las c...

Los estereotipos de género se encuentran en las diferentes esferas en las que se desarrolla un individuo. Existen presiones sociales, sesgos, patrones y roles, creencias estereotipadas, que condicionan el comportamiento y la autopercepción de la persona. Esto también sucede en el momento de decidir qué estudios superiores cursar. Si bien se trata d...

EhcoBUTLER is a tablet platform mainly aimed at the elderly with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to promote their well-being and health. The main objective of this study was to explore the perceptions and feedback level of the ehcoBUTLER potential users and stakeholders to improve its development. Through this exploration, the secondary objective w...

Differences in the representation of diversity in higher education, emphasising the gender gap in some areas, are issues addressed from different research domains. Socially, gender roles have been constructed and are also related to professions. In this context, the Social Cognitive Career Theory explores the possible causes of segregation. This se...

Living Labs are spaces and laboratories created in natural areas aimed at social innovation. The basic principle of these labs is improving people's quality of life and the improvement of regions, the functioning of compa-nies, etc. One of the areas in which Living Labs interventions are applied is the elderly. Seniorlabs are initiatives aimed at i...

Discrimination and denial of the rights of women with disabilities continues to be a reality. Women suffer situations of double discrimination, because they are women and because they have a disability. Women are disadvantaged in educational, employment, social, legal and economic terms. The prevalence of disability in Castilla y León (an Autonomou...

Lay abstract: Professional guidance and support in response to first concerns appears to be an important predictor of the level of satisfaction with the detection process of autism in young children. In this study, we analyzed the views of 1342 family members, including 1278 parents, who completed an online survey form collecting information about...

Different educational programs aim to reduce or control Internet addiction. These are based on a traditional methodology that can be recognized as an exposition or master class (participatory or not). In this type of educational programs the student acquires a passive role since they are focused on informing the students of the dangers associated w...

La investigación en Humanidades no parece recibir la misma importancia que sí se otorga a las investigaciones de las áreas de la ciencia y la tecnología. El propósito central de este estudio es caracterizar la producción de artículos científicos sobre Humanidades en los últimos cinco años en Iberoamérica. La metodología empleada corresponde al mape...

El lenguaje es algo más que una herramienta de comunicación. Cuando preguntamos, saludamos o realizamos alguna acción, estamos esperando la reacción de las personas que nos ven, con lo cual la intención va implícita, lo que significa que el lenguaje no es neutral ni inocente, intenta influir en nuestra conciencia. En estos términos se expresaban Ro...

El desarrollo de la competencia digital trae avances significativos demostrados en la formación de ciudadanos competentes para el mundo digital en el que nos encontramos, suponiendo actualmente uno de los retos más ambiciosos para la comunidad educativa. Existen una serie de dimensiones clave que facilitan la evolución en la competencia digital, si...

Horizontal segregation in the higher education framework is a problem that goes up in the work environment. Women are assuming traditional gender roles due to phenomena such as the threat of stereotyping, which prevents them from opting for higher studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This research work arises within t...

University students are expected to have the appropriate digital competence to face the demands of the changing educational model and to meet the challenges of the future work. This paper describes university students’ perceptions of digital competence and analyzes the impact of personal factors on digital competence in a sample of 5164 students fr...

Grandparents who have grandchildren with disabilities are an underrepresented group in existing research related to the field. This qualitative phenomenological study’s general purpose is to analyze, from a personal perspective, the situations and needs of grandparents who have grandchildren with Down syndrome. The participants’ ages range from 65...

En la Universidad de Salamanca no ha existido un programa de mentoría que busque ayudar a la orientación, apoyo, integración académica y social de los estudiantes dentro de un programa específico como lo es el Doctorado en Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento, lo que lo convierte en un proyecto totalmente nuevo e innovador en la USAL. Se qu...

Introduction: The pandemic produced by COVID-19 and the home confinements that have been ordered because of it have impacted minors with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Objective: This work has been carried out in order to know the social impact of COVID-19 on people with childhood autism, including the perception and reactions of third people. The...

Las aulas multigrado son habituales en los centros educativos rurales, aunque en la actualidad están en peligro de desaparición debido a la baja natalidad y el efecto de la España vaciada. La investigación realizada presenta la opinión sobre estas aulas, ofrecida por docentes de dos provincias de Castilla y León (España). El objetivo ha sido analiz...

In dementia care, psychosocial interventions can increase people's quality of life with dementia and their caregivers. Despite their effectiveness, however, their translation into practice lacks the desirable systematicity. Systematic educational programs on psychosocial interventions in dementia will improve this translation, as it prepares profes...

The gender gap is a problem that occurs in different forms in regions and countries around the world. It is a goal of large international organisations, governments, companies and other entities. Although it is not a new issue, it is important to continue studying it and seek mechanisms and strategies to attract and maintain more women in these are...

With the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the emergence of the Corona virus (COVID-19,) our way of life and even our education have been affected. The education approach has changed from traditional tutorials to online education. As a result, it has been a necessary for not only students but also teachers to impro...

In the information and knowledge society, where technology develops rapidly and penetrates deeply into our lives, the discussion about digital competence has become a hot topic today. After the emergence of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and with its huge impact on the education industry, the concern about digital competence has reached a new height. T...

There is evidence supporting the use of psychosocial interventions in dementia care. Due to the role of policy in clinical practice, the present study investigates whether and how the issue of psychosocial care and interventions has been addressed in the national dementia plans and strategies across Europe. A total of 26 national documents were fou...

Se presenta una guía basada en la experiencia de direferentes docentes al llevar a cabo una actividad de taller de evaluación entre iguales desde Moodle. Esta experiencia ha permitido detallar los aspectos que se deben tener en cuenta desde que se configura hasta que se cierra la actividad, tratando de solventar las dudas que a los propios profesor...

In recent years, technology has been implemented in the field of interventions for older adults. GRADIOR 4.5 is a cognitive software within the wide variety of available multimedia programs that support healthcare professionals in cognitive assessment and neuropsychological rehabilitation. The study aimed to evaluate the new version of GRADIOR (v4....

Se ha llevado a cabo un estudio empírico en un municipio de España con nueve entidades del Tercer Sector que trabajan con mujeres víctimas de violencia de género con el objetivo de plantear una propuesta de intervención basada en la orientación sociolaboral, adecuada a las necesidades específicas de las destinatarias de las asociaciones participant...

There is a critical gender gap in the STEM areas at all levels of education and the labour market. In this context, the European Union has included an increase in female participation in STEM as one of its priorities. It has funded a considerable amount of research projects, so a substantial number of institutions and organizations across Europe ha...

Early services for ASD need to canvas the opinions of both parents and professionals. These opinions are seldom compared in the same research study. This study aims to ascertain the views of families and professionals on early detection, diagnosis and intervention services for young children with ASD. An online survey compiled and analysed data fro...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in one of the co-author’s family name. The correct name should be María Victoria Martín-Cilleros instead of María Victoria Cilleros-Martín.

La calidad de vida se ve afectada ante una discapacidad, más aún cuando quien la presenta es una mujer. De cara a emprender futuras acciones se realiza un estudio dirigido a conocer la percepción que dicho colectivo tiene sobre su calidad de vida. Para ello se elaboró un cuestionario cualitativo. De las respuestas de 526 mujeres se realizó un análi...

Se ha llevado a cabo un estudio empírico en un municipio de España con nueve entidades del Tercer Sector que trabajan con mujeres víctimas de violencia de género con el objetivo de plantear una propuesta de intervención basada en la orientación sociolaboral, adecuada a las necesidades específicas de las destinatarias de las asociaciones participant...

W-STEM is a research project funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in order to develop concrete actions to modernise the government, management and operation of higher education institutions in Latin America to improve women’s access to STEM programs. Among the main objectives of the project, there is the development of a mobile...

Introducción: La discapacidad es una condición que afecta a la calidad de vida de las personas, si quien la padece es una mujer, esta afectación puede llegar a ser más limitante. Ante la escasa literatura y la necesidad de conocer la situación actual con fines de intervención, se realiza el siguiente estudio; Objetivos: Conocer la percepción de la...

The aim of this study is to develop a profle of attachment experiences through the analysis of content shared in a virtual forum by a group of mothers who have children with developmental delay. Three categories were extracted from the data: behavioural system, care system, and professional parenting assistance. The results allowed the identifcatio...

The goal of the current research was to explore the perceptions of the students in the last year of a degree in Primary Education towards technology and inclusive education. It employed a mixed method research with a combined use of qualitative and quantitative methods. The research population was comprised of 153 learners, and the quantitative sam...

The present study, based on the opinion of the students of the different degrees in the field of Education, evaluates the use of a teaching methodology gamified with Kahoot in higher education, where the smartphone becomes an educational resource. To this end, a non-experimental research of a descriptive nature is carried out, applying an electroni...