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In this paper we present some results of the European Project Erasmus K1 ACTTEA (2012-2015) in which four countries participated (Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands and Spain). The objective of the project was to assess what kind of knowledge pre-service teachers learn when teaChing in the Practicum setting. An empirical study was conducted in each country following three phases. video recordings were made in sessions; analysis of critical incidents; and an individual report of learning was performed. Three conditions were established: Individual reflection; Dialogue among peers; and Dialogue with a tutor. An inductive procedure based on propositional and thematic analysis was followed, and the Chi Square Test and V Cramer were used. Results from the Spanish data show that student teachers under the condition C are better able to learn a kind of sophisticated and generalizable knowledge, while conditions A and B allow students to better understand what they had done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses narrative thinking and literacy levels in future primary school teachers in Spain. It uses the study of a historical synthesis of one of the main narratives in Spanish history: the Christian expansion through Muslim territories in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages. Accounts by 283 students of the degree in elementary school teaching at the universities of Valencia and Murcia were studied. The aim was to ascertain the students' discursive abilities with respect to their historical thinking skills. The results reveal poor narrative skills in future teachers and a very low level of historical literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets out the professional knowledge and practice of María, a pre-school teacher with three years of experience in a public school in Catalonia and 13 girls and 11 boys in her care. The data collected enables further understanding of her teaching experiences and the educational process she uses, which contribute to the creation and development of an educational relationship marked by a focus on individual needs and the unique characteristics of each child, and describes the support and care provided throughout classroom experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an analysis of university teacher training with the aim of providing an assessment to improve ongoing initiatives. It contributes to the debate on university teacher training by comparing aspects such as different training topics, the profiles of teachers who take part in such training, and the relationship between these characteristics. An exploratory, descriptive and quantitative methodology supported by content analysis analyzes the training offered by some of the best-placed Spanish universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The results show that the main topics addressed are methodologies, assessment and technology, and most hours of training were intended for teachers with more than five years' experience. The conclusions highlight the importance of introducing topics related to inclusion and designing courses for every stage of a teacher's training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

European education policy is based on the principle of subsidiarity on common goals for the year 2020 among the member countries of the European Union. This article explores the educational context in Spain and the method used to achieve the European objectives. Currently we are living in a system of political decentralization and have experienced important legislative changes in recent years. Consequently, through a documentary analysis of the reports and papers produced by the Ministry of Education, the proposals for the Educational and Social Covenant of 2010 and Territorial Cooperation Programs, we identified the commitments that the Spanish government has undertaken to work in conjunction with the European objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the basic knowledge needed by the sports practitioner who wishes to have a healthy physical education. To determine the necessary basic knowledge, we used a methodology of standard expertise, delving further into the subject by means of a semistructured interview. The interview was taped, transcribed and analyzed through the program Nudist NVivo. We have grouped the common responses emerging from the analysis into different categories, thus obtaining a total of 9 basic considerations which should be habitually transmitted to Physical Education students, so that they may achieve adequate self-management in the practice of physical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a study on the competencies possessed by the faculty of elementary-school and junior-high-school teachers (of compulsory and post-compulsory education) in Valencia (Spain), as concerning the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We worked with a stratified random sample of 868 teachers, and analyzed their competencies in two areas: personal-professional use, and the use they make of ICT in the classroom. Although the study is based on various analyses, its contribution to Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CATPCA) should be emphasized for the dimensional analysis and determination of the relationship of these dimensions with other variables of interest. The paper contributes results of interest as regards planning the integration of ICT into schools, as well as pertaining to teacher training for the pedagogical integration of ICT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper an experiment was carried out to test the theory of mental models of Johnson-Laird, which classifies subjects according to their previous knowledge. The subjects of the experiment were high school students of Valencia (Spain), to whom a problem solving test was administered. The results found seem to confirm that an inverse relation between the number of mental models implied in the problem and the percentage of subjects that solve it correctly, as the theory predicts. Moreover, subjects of higher previous knowledge do not always solve problems significantly better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The North of Morocco, like border regional space with Spain and the European Union, is object of an intense process of promotion of policies and programs of cooperation of diverse institutions (UN, European Union, agencies of co-operation, among others) that have interests in the zone, such as: fortification of a growth, safety ring in a strategic zone of the rent by the existence of a high step between neighbors, creation of a new policy of vicinity based on semi-integration, reduction of the emigration, etcetera. Question that agrees with a determined policy of the Moroccan government to re-launch socially and economically this space: process of regionalization and dowry of institutions (Agency for the Promotion of the Development in the Regions of the North), design of a strategy of growth based on the human development, and more. This paper analyzes the reasons of this process, the geographic reality and the socioeconomic characterization of the border area. At the same time, it diagnoses the weaknesses and opportunities for the joint of new policies of cooperation and development for the actors who look for a territorial development in this border area, today in crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present a conceptual model and a methodology for the review of translated tests in the context of such international comparisons as TIMSS and PISA. We also discuss results from a research on the quality of the Mexican, Spanish translation of TIMSS-1995. We identified translation errors in a considerably high percentage of items and observed relatively high correlations between the severity of translation error and the items' p values. These findings indicate that our approach for error coding is very sensitive to test translation error. These findings underscore the need for improved translation and translation review procedures in international comparisons. In our opinion, in order to properly implement guidelines for test translation in international comparisons, each participating country needs to have internal procedures that ensure a rigorous review of its own translations. As a conclusion, we offer four recommendations for countries participating in international comparisons. These recommendations address: (a) the characteristics of the individuals in charge of translating instruments, (b) the use of review not simply at the end of the process but during the process of test translation, (c) the minimum time needed for various translation review iterations to take place, and (d) the need for properly documenting the entire process of test translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the psychometric data of a scale of evaluation of the social abilities (social expression and splits motor) are presented. The scale was built to investigate the social competence and antisocial conduct in adolescence. The process of construction of the scale is explained, and the data on its internal consistency, its reliability test-retest and its concurrent validity are presented. The scale was filled out by 325 teachers of different schools of the city of Badajoz (Spain); however, 20 of them were rejected because they were not properly completed. Likewise, the scale was analyzed giving as a result 9 factors that explained 59.4% of the total variance. With the results obtained in this scale, the position of situational specificity with regard to social abilities is supported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the school evaluation model that is being applied in different centers of the Basque Autonomous Community. It analyzes, on the one hand, the theoretical bases that underlie it and, on the other, the more relevant methodological and technical aspects of this experience. The evaluation attempts to offer relevant information to set up processes of change and improvement in each one of the participant centers. Along with the description of the evaluation model that is being applied, the reader will find in this article a detailed account of the analyzed dimensions and the processes of collection and construction of the tests and questionnaires that are being used, as well as that of the present situation and the perspective facing the immediate future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]