ICT in evaluation practices in secondary education

Resumen basado en el de la publicaciónTítulo, resumen y palabras clave también en inglésSe intenta hacer explícita la necesidad de fomentar durante la práctica de evaluación del alumnado la integración de las TIC, pues favorece su motivación, regula su aprendizaje, y la coevaluación. De esta forma, los objetivos planteados es describir la práctica de la evaluación de los alumnos con las TIC y valorar su resultado. El estudio se enmarca en una metodología de naturaleza mixta. La muestra seleccionada para el estudio es un grupo específico de 15 alumnos de 2º de E.S.O, un grupo de refuerzo de lengua castellana y todos de origen magrebí. Del total de alumnos de la muestra el 53% son mujeres, frente al 47% restante que son varones, todos ellos con edades comprendidas entre los 14 y los 16 años, procedentes de un I.E.S de la Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta. Esta experiencia puede hacerse extensible a institutos de similares características repartidos a lo largo de todo el territorio nacional. La autoevaluación presencial en el aula a través del apoyo de distintos recursos TIC, resultó una experiencia positiva y motivadora para el alumnado, mostrando un gran interés por medir el logro de sus conocimientos y seguir mejorando académicamente.ES

The Mothering of Conduct Problem and Normal Children in Spain and the USA: Authoritarian and Permissive Asynchrony

Ninety-two clinic-referred and nonclinical mother-child dyads in Spain and the USA were observed in their home settings under naturalistic conditions for a total of 477 hours. Children in the clinic-referred dyads were considered troubled because of conduct problems. The observations were aimed at assessing two forms of mother-child asynchrony, either of which was expected to differentiate clinic referred from nonclinical dyads. Authoritarian asynchrony was defined as a mother’s indiscriminate use of aversive reactions to her child, whereas the permissive form entailed indiscriminate positive reactions. Results showed the American mothers to generate more permissive asynchrony, whereas the Spanish mothers were inclined in the authoritarian direction. Only authoritarian asynchrony differentiated the clinical versus nonclinical dyads in each country. Discussion was centered on the greater salience of aversive as opposed to positive maternal attention, and cultural differences between countries that might have accounted for the different parenting [email protected]

Enantiomeric separation of prothioconazole and prothioconazole-desthio by capillary electrophoresis. Degradation studies in environmental simples

In this work, two analytical methodologies by Capillary Electrophoresis were developed. The first one enabled the rapid and cost-effective enantioseparation of prothioconazole and was applied to the analysis of prothioconazole-based commercial agrochemical formulations. The second methodology enabled the simultaneous enantioseparation of prothioconazole and its metabolite prothioconazole-desthio and was applied to degradation studies of both compounds in soil and sand samples. The influence of several experimental variables was investigated to develop both methodologies. The separation of prothioconazole enantiomers was achieved in 4.5 min with a resolution of 2.8 employing a neutral cyclodextrin (heptakis(2,3,6-tri-O-methyl)-?-cyclodextrin). Given the nature of prothioconazole-desthio, a neutral cyclodextrin cannot be used for its chiral separation. For this reason, the simultaneous enantioseparation of prothioconazole and prothioconazole-desthio was achieved in 5.5 min with resolution values of 1.9 and 8.2, respectively, using a negatively charged cyclodextrin (sulfated-?-cyclodextrin). The analytical characteristics of the developed methodologies were evaluated and both methods showed good performance to be applied to the quantitation of the enantiomers of prothioconazole in commercial agrochemical formulations (LOD 0.7 mg L-1) and to carry out degradation studies for both compounds in environmental matrices (LODs lower than 0.9 and 1.3 mg L-1 for prothioconazole and prothioconazole-desthio enantiomers, respectively). The recovery values obtained were in the range between 94-104 % for the agrochemical formulations, between 96-99 % for the sand samples and between 97-100 % for the soil samples

European Union Cohesion Policy: Socio‑Economic Vulnerability of the Regions and the COVID‑19 Shock

The European Union Cohesion Policy for the period 2021–2027 focuses on five goals to make the European Union smarter, greener, more connected, more social and closer to citizens. However, a macroeconomic index is proposed as the predominant criterion for allocating the Structural Funds among regions. In this paper, we hypothesise that it is possible to take into account new, complementary criteria that better reflect citizens’ quality of life. To that end, we build a composite index of socio-economic vulnerability for the 233 regions. The results show that following our multidimensional approach for allocating the Structural Funds, there are remarkable differences in the maps of priority regions. In addition, the COVID- 19 pandemic represents a threat to well-being. Are all regions equally exposed to COVID-19 in terms of their socio-economic vulnerability? To address this issue, we estimate multilevel models which indicate that country characteristics interact with regions’ characteristics to alter patterns of vulnerability. More specifically, increases in government expenditures in education and an improvement in political stability would reduce the regional vulnerability or foster the capacity for resilience, whereas increases in poverty would be associated with greater vulnerability. Likewise, more vulnerable regions would be the most exposed to the negative socio-economic effects of COVID-19. However, it is remarkable that several regions of Sweden and Finland would be among the group of regions whose socio-economic vulnerability would be the most negatively affected.Universidad de Granada/CBUAproject ERDF-University of Granada B-SEJ-242.UGR2

Repercussion of the corporal autopercepción in the relations of pair in mastectomizadas women

Introducción. El cáncer de mama constituye la primera causa de muerte por cáncer en mujeres en los países desarrollados, representando un 13.04/100.000 mujeres, un riesgo de 1 a 8. El objeto del presente estudio ese relacionar la autopercepción corporal de las pacientes mastectomizadas según la técnica quirúrgica y conocer su repercusión en las relaciones sociales y de pareja. Pacientes y métodos. Se trata de un estudio transversal, con metodología cualitativa realizado en una muestra de 22 mujeres (68.75%) del total de las 32 seleccionadas con edades comprendidas entre 35 y 76 años, mediante entrevista personal de 30´. Las mujeres estaban mastectomizadas, con el tratamiento de radioterapia/ quimioterapia finalizado con más de 6 meses desde la intervención. Características de las pacientes. A 12 mujeres del total (54,54%) se les ofreció reconstrucción mamaria, las 10 restantes (45,45%) no tuvieron esa opción. Resultados. 12 mujeres valoran la relación de ayuda de los profesionales muy buena (54,54%), pero en 10 casos expresan muy buena la atención de enfermería y regular la atención médica. Conclusiones. Parece que el cambio en la imagen corporal de la mujer mastectomizada influye en sus relaciones de pareja, dependiendo de la técnica quirúrgica a la que haya sido sometida.Introduction. The breast cancer constitutes the first cause of death by cancer in women in the developed countries, representing 13.04/100.000 women, a risk from 1 to 8. The object of the present study that to relate the corporal autopercepción of the patients mastectomizadas according to the surgical technique and to know its repercussion in the social relations and of pair. Patients and methods. One is a cross-sectional study, with qualitative methodology made in a sample of 22 women (68,75%) of the total of 32 selected with ages included/understood between 35 and 76 years, by means of personal interview of 30´. The women were mastectomizadas, with treatment of x-ray chemotherapy finalized with more of 6 months from the intervention. Characteristics of the patients. To 12 women of the total (54.54%) mammary reconstruction was offered to them, the 10 rest (45.45%) did not have that option. Results. 12 women value the relation of aid of the professionals very good (54.54%), but in 10 cases express very good the infirmary attention and to regulate the medical attention. Conclusions. It seems that the change in the corporal image of the mastectomizada woman influences in its relations of pair, depending on the surgical technique which it has been put under

Dealing with weighting scheme in composite indicators: An unsupervised distance-machine learning proposal for quantitative data

There is increasing interest in the construction of composite indicators to benchmark units. However, the mathematical approach on which the most commonly used techniques are based does not allow benchmarking in a reliable way. Additionally, the determination of the weighting scheme in the composite indicators remains one of the most troubling issues. Using the vector space formed by all the observations, we propose a new method for building composite indicators: a distance or metric that considers the concept of proximity among units. This approach enables comparisons between the units being studied, which are always quantitative. To this end, we take the P2 Distance method of Pena Trapero as a starting point and improve its limitations. The proposed methodology eliminates the linear dependence on the model and seeks functional relationships that enable constructing the most efficient model. This approach reduces researcher subjectivity by assigning the weighting scheme with unsupervised machine learning techniques. Monte Carlo simulations confirm that the proposed methodology is robust.European Commission European Commission Joint Research Centre 813234ERDF-Universidad de Granada B-SEJ-242-UGR20Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain (MICINN) Spanish Government PID2019-105708RBUniversidad de Granada/CBU

G-inverses for random walks

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