Óliver Soto Sainz

Óliver Soto Sainz

Doctor in Political Science

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Introduction
Óliver Soto currently works at the Department of Political Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid. Óliver does research in Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Comparative Democratization and Comparative Politics. His most recent publication is "Rendicion de cuentas y legitimidad: hacia una nueva propuesta de tipologia de los sistemas politicos autocraticos y democraticos". .

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The creation of educational audio-visual materials has recently become popular. It is an innovative and entertaining practice, which can reach millions of people through social networks and YouTube. For this reason, this specific was designed for students enrolled in the following three modules: The Spanish political system, public administration i...
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Active-learning environments have been slowly but increasingly integrated into the political science curricula. Students and professors have fun in the active-learning processes. However, we still need evidence to support the nexus between learning and playing to ensure students learn more, or at least the same, with active-learning methodologies t...
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El proceso de conformación de la agenda política se ha descrito como una interacción entre las agendas de los medios de comunicación y la agenda denominada “ciudadana”. En todo este proceso se ha estudiado en qué medida se imponen unas u otras agendas a la hora de conformarse la agenda pública. No obstante, cuando atendemos a los niveles infraestat...
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En este artículo pretendemos presentar el concepto de sistema político como la base para la elaboración de una tipología empíricamente útil para dividir los sistemas políticos en categorías que nos permitan extraer conclusiones sobre su funcionamiento. El concepto de sistema nos engloba el marco de objetivos, normas y estructuras en el que se desen...
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La extrema derecha acumula portadas en los medios de comunicación, en los que se vaticina su auge imparable. A nivel europeo, el auge de estos movimientos se mezcla con la presencia que tienen los grupos euroescépticos. Estos fenómenos se presentan como algo totalmente nuevo hasta tal punto que parecen surgidos de la nada. No obstante, muchos de es...
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La elección directa de los eurodiputados en 1979 supuso un hito en el proceso de democratización y apertura de las instituciones europeas al conjunto de la ciudadanía. No obstante, dicho hito se produjo de manera incompleta y con ciertos peajes hacia los Estados miembros que aún se arrastran hoy día. Así, si bien todos los europeos comparten una ún...
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Resumen In this paper we study how the application of new innovative teaching techniques in our school, has produced an overall improvement in the performance of students along the school years 2005-2008. Students with a worse previous level of student achievement in highschool have not only increased their performance but also the school attritio...
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Programa de Estudios y Análisis. Proyecto EA 2011-0120 Coordina: Edmundo Tovar Redacción: Jorge López, Nelson Piedra, Eva Sancho, Óliver Soto, Edmundo Tovar
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Students' performance in the development of their academic career depends on their input level for a core of key competences that they have already developed in the secondary education level. In 2008-09 we led a project called “Comparative study about the level of the development of generic competences in newcomer students of Computer Engineering”...
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Students' performance depends on the input level they had in a set of key competences before accessing higher education. However, there has not been much research on the relationship between student performance and key competences in this level of education. In the computer engineering studies at the Universidad Polite¿cnica de Madrid we have deve...
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Resumen En el centro universitario donde se imparte Ingeniería Informática objeto del presente estudio se constata que en los últimos años ha habido una mejora en los resultados obtenidos por los alumnos de nuevo ingreso con respecto de los años anteriores. Una de las hipótesis más razonables que puedan explicar este hecho es el empleo de nuevos mé...
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This paper describes the processes that have started to reform the curriculum and learning landscape at Computer Engineering School of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) within the European Higher Education Area framework. In this context, competences and learning outcomes are emerging as a new teaching/learning paradigm, where approache...

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