Necesidades de formación continua del profesorado de educación básica para el diseño de programas de posgrado

This paper shows the results of an exploratory study with a quantitative approach in which the continuous training needs of basic education teachers are identified: preschool, primary and secondary, in order to design a relevant and contextualized postgraduate proposal. The main objective is based on the diagnosis of training needs felt by teachers for the design and implementation of continuous training educational programs, based on the areas of opportunity expressed by teachers in service in the northern region of the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, in contrast to the professional competences for the exercise of teaching. For the collection of information, a questionnaire instrument with a Likert-type scale was used, made up of 48 items in six categories of analysis: continuous training needs, teaching and continuous improvement, educational research, professional ethics, didactic use of ICTs and English. This study shows a diagnosis of the training needs most felt by in-service teachers, from which Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) could base their proposals for continuous training programs.Estudio exploratorio con enfoque cuantitativo en el que se identifican las necesidades de formación continua de docentes de educación básica: preescolar, primaria y secundaria, a fin de diseñar una propuesta de posgrado pertinente y contextualizada. El objetivo principal se basa en el diagnóstico de necesidades de formación sentidas por el profesorado para el diseño e implementación de programas educativos de formación continua, a partir de las áreas de oportunidad expresadas por los profesores en servicio de la región norte del estado de Zacatecas, México, en contraste con las competencias profesionales para el ejercicio de la docencia. Para la recogida de información se utilizó un instrumento de cuestionario con escala tipo Likert, conformado por 48 ítems en seis categorías de análisis: necesidades de formación continua, docencia y mejora continua, investigación educativa, ética profesional, uso didáctico de TIC´s e inglés. Este estudio muestra un diagnóstico de las necesidades de formación más sentidas por los docentes en servicio, a partir de las cuales las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES) podrían fundamentar sus propuestas de programas de formación continua

Planteamiento del problema de investigación en el programa de maestría de la ENERRC, aprendizajes y dificultades.

The objective of this paper is to describe the main learning and difficulties faced by students in the drafting of the research problem statement of the Master's program in Education and Improvement of Teaching Practice (MEMPD), of the Rafael Ramírez Castañeda Normal Experimental School. (ENERRC), from the experience of the participants and the perspective of the teachers/tutors. The research was developed from a mixed approach, of an exploratory type and an action-research methodological design. The results of the research showed how the follow-up and timely accompaniment of the course teacher/tutor favored the construction of theoretical-methodological learning for the elaboration of the problem statement in qualitative research, as a starting point for the generation of reflective processes of the practice itself and the development of professional skills in the participants. At the end of the formative path of the first quarter, temporal delimitation of the research, it became clear that the most relevant learning consisted of the diagnosis of a problem in their professional practice, pertinent and justified, as well as some methodological aspects such as: background, delimitation, justification, question and research objectives. Among the most felt areas of opportunity, those related to the use of theory to substantiate, justify or argue ideas derived from empirical reflection were commented, together with the use of the correct way of referencing them in APA format.El presente escrito tiene como objetivo describir los principales aprendizajes y dificultades que enfrentaron los estudiantes en la redacción del planteamiento del problema de investigación del programa de la Maestría en Educación y Mejora de la Práctica Docente (MEMPD), de la Escuela Normal Experimental Rafael Ramírez Castañeda (ENERRC), desde la experiencia de los participantes y la perspectiva de los docentes/tutores. La investigación se desarrolló desde un enfoque mixto, de tipo exploratorio y diseño metodológico de investigación-acción. Los resultados de la investigación mostraron cómo el seguimiento y acompañamiento oportuno del docente/tutor del curso, favorecieron la construcción de aprendizajes teóricos-metodológicos para la elaboración del planteamiento del problema en una investigación cualitativa, como punto de partida para la generación de procesos reflexivos de la propia práctica y el desarrollo de competencias profesionales en los participantes. Al término del trayecto formativo del primer cuatrimestre, delimitación temporal de la investigación, quedó de manifiesto que, los aprendizajes con mayor relevancia consistieron en el diagnóstico de una problemática en su práctica profesional, pertinente y justificada, así como algunos aspectos de orden metodológico como: antecedentes, delimitación, justificación, pregunta y objetivos de investigación. Entre las áreas de oportunidad más sentidas se comentaron las relacionadas con el uso de la teoría para fundamentar, justificar o argumentar ideas derivadas de la reflexión empírica, aunado al uso de la forma correcta de referenciarlas en formato APA

Percepción y Realidad del Secuestro en Nuevo León: Una Visión Multidisciplinaria en el Diagnóstico de Rutas, Perfiles y Zonas Detectadas Para su Prevención y Tratamiento

Durante el año 2012, un total de 18 académicos y profesionales procedentes de distintas disciplinas y apoyados por la UANL, Waldos y Asociados, la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Gobierno de Nuevo León y el Instituto Dipev, trabajaron específicamente en diversas técnicas metodológicas para analizar el fenómeno del secuestro en la entidad

An Eco-System Architectural Model for Delivering Educational Services to Children with Learning Problems in Basic Mathematics

International audienceA large diverse amount of educational content can dynamically contribute to the construction of basic knowledge for elementary school children. These contents can be used to develop or expand such knowledge and this becomes different when it needs to be applied to children with learning problems in basic mathematics. Then, it is necessary to manage effectively educational resources. The current work proposes the use of an architectural model in order to support teaching activities of a multidisciplinary group of specialist in inclusive education. A case study presents here some examples of teaching activities such as the specification of context and the management of educational resources according the learning problems of children at elementary school

Morphological and histomorphometric evaluation of the ventral rectus sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, fascia lata and pectoral fascia. The beginning of a morphological information bank of human fascias

The aim of this study was to characterize and compare the morphological and histomorphometric characteristics of the pectoral fascia, fascia lata and ventral rectus sheath. Twenty cadaveric samples of these fascias were analyzed and stained with hematoxylin and eosin, orcein, Van Gieson, Masson’s trichrome and Verhoeff’s stain (1200 slides in total). Morphological evaluation, semiquantitative, morphometric and microdensitometric analysis of elastic fibers present in each of the tissues and a morphometrical analysis of tissue thickness were performed. The mean value of the pectoral fascia thickness was 612±68.13 µm; 84±246 µm for the fascia lata and 584±92 µm for the ventral rectus sheath. The area occupied by the elastic fibers in the pectoral fascia was 12.24±5.84%; 6.54±3.85% for the fascia lata and 11.11±5.26% for the ventral rectus sheath. There were no statistically significant differences when comparing the mean values between the pectoral fascia and the ventral rectus sheath (p=0.07). There were statistically significant differences when comparing the fascia lata to the pectoral fascia and the ventral rectus sheath (p≤0,001). This study reports other morphological characteristics not described in previous histological studies of the analyzed tissues. The results of the morphometric and densitometric analysis in this study reveal that the fascia lata has the fewest elastic fibers of all the tissues analyzed, and the pectoral fascia has the most. These results will be useful for the beginning of a morphological information bank of human fascias

Los primeros 70 años de transformar vidas

Este eBook incluye diversas an&eacute;cdotas narradas por distintas personas cuyas vidas han sido transformadas por el Tecnol&oacute;gico de Monterrey. Tambi&eacute;n se muestra un recorrido fotogr&aacute;fico a lo largo de 70 a&ntilde;os del Tec.</p

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module

We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line–associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U.S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN