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The purpose of this article is to examine recent publications on the emerging field of learning analytics, to describe its evolution or growth, to analyze the elements that differentiate it from other disciplines in terms of field, lines of work and maturity, and to determine how it relates to learning. Twenty-three papers were reviewed, based on the application of a method that incorporated a series of inclusion and exclusion criteria proposed for that purpose. The results indicate the main element differentiating learning analytics in terms of its field is the focus on improving or optimizing learning. It uses different techniques and methods from different fields to accomplish that goal. As a result, an important body of work also has emerged that is concerned with delimiting the field through models or frameworks for learning analytics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, international and national test results have been unfavorable for Mexico's educational system, turning the spotlight on teachers' quality. This problem has also occurred in the public teaching entrance examination and calls into question the efficiency of the initial training provided by Mexican normal schools. This paper intends to study the relationship between a student community's social origin and academic performance in three normal school sites in Sonora. It analyzes a cohort of 268 students through the five cultural capital types that, as variables, contribute to exploring academic performance. Besides, it determines the social origin of the students through K-means clustering. Through an analysis of the Pearson correlation coefficient, the results show that the student's family, school, and economic capitals are associated with academic performance. Afterward, a linear regression analysis was carried out where the highest Beta value was for the school capital variable. In conclusion, in a framework of social inequality, the school and economic capitals take part in the educational achievement of students who are being trained as teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interest in game-related topics within educational processes is due to numerous proposals that emerged in the 1960s and their applicability to different disciplines, such as military, health, social sciences, and engineering. This paper shows the evolution from the primary form of the game to current concepts such as serious games and gamification. It presents a theoretical review of various studies conducted in the field of gaming in education, its characteristics, and its applications. Then, it proposes an integrating theoretical model of the concepts associated with gaming in education, which account for the learning-fun relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exploration of the teacher's perceptions about their innovative actions, in official institutions of Bogotá, Colombia. Mixed methods were used to explore perceptions regarding the generation and development of educational innovative actions, to identify the mechanisms used to disseminate those actions, and to learn about the problems associated with the achievement of innovative activities in public education. The results offer the grounds to build strategies for the dissemination and recognition of innovative actions in teaching practice and show the need to understand the conditions, situation, interests, and possibilities of those teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article identifies research trends in the processes of creating historical memory from the state, civil society, and school, and the significant challenges of the educational sector regarding this conjunction. This paper deals with a corpus of 38 texts derived from research during the post-dictatorship period in Chile (1990) and Argentina (1983) and the post-conflict period in Colombia (2012). Then, it identifies as trends the state's intention to promote the construction of memories and confer this task to school. As for civil society, it notes the effort to strengthen spaces for protecting memories and ensure resistance against past victimizing agents. Regarding school, it recognizes crucial breakthroughs in the three nodes of the teaching system: teacher, student, and knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the disciplinary and practice areas that shape the educator's work is educational guidance. This paper intends to describe the most relevant methodological conditions to develop educational guidance skills during initial teacher training. To this end, qualitative research with a descriptive scope was conducted with students and professors of the Education program at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico. The method used is of a hermeneutical phenomenological type. Results show the significance of practice projects and social service as central concepts in the development of educational guidance skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of a documentary research about the education of the will. The paper addresses issues related to the shaping of the will in current society, its theoretical background and the educational trends in this field. Among the factors that seem to affect the decline of the education of the will are: a widespread educational permissiveness; the enhancement of an emotional culture, which privileges feelings over reason and will, as well as a tendency to take the easy way out and the mediocrity resulting from a "weak will". Regarding education of the will, it is important to consider its double cognitive and motivational dimension. Valuable things motivate human behavior. Educators must consider this when designing pedagogical strategies with that purpose. Great ideals call for great answers. Finally, the paper presents three current educational trends that combine several initiatives regarding the shaping of will: education of the will, character education and moral education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article derives from an interinstitutional research project built, which took a qualitative approach and was conducted in eight major cities of Colombia using narrative methods. It aimed to inquire into the nature and pedagogical practices of Religious Education teachers, which is a fundamental and mandatory class under the General Education Act. Accounts of participating teachers showed different outlooks as to the identity and praxis of Religious Education in School (RES) but, within them, researchers' interest focused on an emerging perspective that regards this subject as a search for the cultivation of human spirituality. Therefore, this paper intends to present some contributions that RES can make to cultivate human spirituality because, when built from this perspective, it favors religious pluralism --preventing any exclusion arising from the dynamics of majority religious systems-- and enriches comprehensive education by providing educational opportunities for the search, construction and cultivation of the meaning of human life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflection paper evaluates three methodological options in the field of arts education that can be implemented in contexts in which artistic training programs in artistic social cartography, action research and creation research are offered. It provides an overview of the advantages and possible complexities of these methodological approaches to art research. Finally, it explains the need to multiply and expand the range of research opportunities, thus helping to guide knowledge creation in arts education, from the ideal of qualitative methodology pluralization, and exploring the future possibility that art builds its own research method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Curricula continue to be a matter of research and problematization in higher education programs, particularly those that train teachers. Although the tendency is to consider them from an instrumental and technical perspective, this paper adopts critical and comprehensive perspectives. Then, this qualitative case study carried out in a School of Education at a public university intends to inquire into the curriculum conceptions present in teacher training programs and their characteristics. The research focuses on the different ways of conceiving the curriculum in the programs, even when they are part of the same academic unit; on flexibility and curricular integration as central concerns; and on the shaping/structuring of programs, which is not homogeneous but determines some paths in the training of those participating in the proposals. From the discussion, it is concluded that a key implication is the need to reach agreements both on curriculum conceptions that guide teaching action and practice and on the particular ways in which proposals are structured/shaped, following those "common minimums" that enable dialogue and collective construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the paper is to identify the current trends in competency-based evaluation in the field of health, based on review of scientific literature. A review of primary, secondary and tertiary sources in Spanish and English from 2005 to date was conducted in search engines such as PubMed, Redalyc, Scielo, Lilacs and Virtual Health Library. Current trends show competency-based evaluation brings students, teachers, HEIs and the community together to train new professionals as part of the transformation in education. It is essential that students, teachers, administrators and universities are part of the teaching, learning and evaluation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the contributions of the praxeological approach to the development of civic competences and civic education, based on an incipient and incident mechanism on pedagogical practice, shaped in higher education and developed in children's classrooms. This pedagogical strategy is highly linked to the recognition of social needs in a non-conventional way that encourages the inclusion, innovation and the development of social competences. The methodology of this investigation is to involve different sectors of society for the reconstruction of democratized and inclusion-oriented spaces, based on the reflection and discussion of a civic education thought from and for the child population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explain the factors that determine the gap in the level of English language proficiency between public and private schools, and to determine whether it has narrowed over time as a result of public policies to generalize bilingualism in Colombia. The language scores on the Saber 11 tests for 2008 and 2013 were analyzed for this purpose. An educational production function that involves family, personal and school factors and an approach to the unobservable component of the skill is introduced. The difference in performance has remained more or less constant, but with a slight reduction; however, the unexplained portion, attributable to the students' motivational component, was found to have declined considerably, indicating that public policies are working in terms of helping students to become interested in learning a foreign language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to analyze the progress and challenges of inclusive education in Colombia, through a comparative analysis of policies and strategies developed within the country and the measures taken by Spain in the same direction. Nine categories were defined for this analysis, based on the key elements identified in the international agreements with names preceded by "UNESCO": 1) the inclusive education approach, 2) focus groups, 3) responsible parties and resources, 4) teaching and learning strategies, 5) curriculum design, 6) educational levels, 7) teacher training, 8) community involvement and 9) evaluation and monitoring. The sources of information include official documents from the agencies in each country that oversee and direct educational services, as well as national legislation currently in effect. The results of this analysis indicate the two countries in question are not so far apart in terms of their legislation and recognition of the principle of inclusion. This shows Colombia has adapted its policy on education to reflect international guidelines. However, it is clear the implementation of these guidelines is still far from inclusive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interaction between contextual characteristics, the way students learn and the way teachers teach opens up a range of issues and obliges teachers to be aware of the factors that influence what constitutes effective teaching. Identifying teaching styles requires adequate tools for evaluation that consider not only the didactic elements that shape the way teachers teach, but also the theoretical aspects. This paper is an attempt to identify the teaching styles typically used by college professors in different disciplines. The Questionnaire on the Teaching Orientation of the University Professor (Feixas, 2006) was used to evaluate teaching styles in a sample of 188 teachers from private universities in the Argentine educational system. No differences, from a descriptive point of view, were observed in the styles adopted by teachers in the disciplines that were analyzed. The authors found teachers in the various fields of knowledge who adopt both the teacher-centered style and the student-centered style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]