Job satisfaction among primary school personnel in Madagascar

This article analyzes the job satisfaction of primary school teachers in Madagascar. Based on the estimation of multilevel models, low wages and problems getting paid, job insecurity, lack of in-service training, high pupil-teacher ratios, and lack of basic infrastructure and teaching materials are identified as the main reasons for dissatisfaction. Principals’ control of teachers’ activities also adversely affects satisfaction, suggesting that, in Malagasy schools, neither school directors nor teachers have succeeded in adopting organizational cultures based on cooperation among their members. These results are likely to stimulate debates on educational policy, both in Madagascar and in many other developing countries.Universidad de Málaga. CAmpus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Hábitos de estudio y rendimiento académico universitario: El poder predictivo de los tests on-line

El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar de manera empírica la relación entre hábitos de estudio y rendimiento académico entre alumnos universitarios. La muestra está compuesta por 160 estudiantes matriculados en primer año del Grado en Administración y Dirección del Empresas durante el curso 2011/2012 en la Universidad de Málaga. Desde un punto de vista metodológico, la forma de capturar la información sobre métodos y técnicas de aprendizaje difiere del proceder habitual en este tipo de estudios. En lugar de encuestas dirigidas a los estudiantes, cuyas respuestas podrían ser catalogadas por éstos como comprometedoras, se ha utilizado como indicador sobre hábitos el comportamiento de esos alumnos respecto a tests on-line diseñados en entorno Moodle. Los resultados obtenidos de los análisis multivariantes efectuados apuntan a que los alumnos que dilatan el momento de respuesta a esas pruebas obtienen peores notas en esos tests y en exámenes futuros, una probabilidad inferior de presentarse al examen final de la asignatura y también peores notas en este último examen. Este conjunto de evidencias pone en valor la preocupación por los estilos de aprendizaje adoptados por los alumnos de enseñanza superior.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Cuestionario3-Variables aleatorias

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Changing family models in Spain: the impact of the sociodemographic factors

Abstract During the last few decades, there has been an increasing international recognition of the studies related to the analysis of the family models change, the focus being the determinants of the female employment and the problems related to the work family balance (Lewis, 2001; Petit & Hook, 2005Saraceno, Crompton & Lyonette, 20062008; Pfau-Effinger, 2012). The majority of these studies have been focused on the analysis of the work-family balance problems as well as the effectiveness of the family and gender policies in order to encourage female employment (Korpi et al., 2013). In Spain, special attention has been given to the family policies implemented, the employability of women and on the role of the father in the family (Flaquer et al., 2015; Meil, 2015); however, there has been far less emphasis on the analysis of the family cultural models (González and Jurado, 2012; Crespi and Moreno, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to present some of the first results on the influence of the socio-demographic factors on the expectations and attitudes about the family models. This study offers an analytical reflection upon the foundation of the determinants of the family ambivalence in Spain from the cultural and the institutional dimension. This study shows the Spanish family models of preferences following the Pfau-Effinger (2004) classification of the famiy living arrangements. The reason for this study is twofold; on the one hand, there is confirmed the scarcity of studies that have focused their attention on this objective in Spain; on the other hand, the studies carried out in the international context have confirmed the analytical effectiveness of researching on the attitude and value changes to explain the meaning and trends of the family changes. There is also presented some preliminary results that have been obtained from the multinomial analysis related to the influence of the socio-demographic factors on the family model chosen by the individuals in Spain (father and mother working full time; mother part-time father full-time; mother not at work father full-time; mother and father part-time). 3 The database used has been the International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles IV- ISSP 2012-. Spain is the only country of South Europe that has participated in the survey. For this reason it has been considered as a representative case study.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Cuestionario 2- Modelos continuos

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Cuestionario3-Variables aleatorias

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Cuestionario 2- Modelos discretos

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Cuestionario3-Probabilidad

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Probabilidad. Conceptos básicos

Presentación de conceptos básicos de probabilidadParcialmente financiado por el PIE13-02

Modelos probabilísticos. Variables aleatorias discretas

Presentación modelos de variables aleatorias discretasParcialmente financiado por el PIE13-02