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This paper presents the results of a study aimed at identifying good practices in different systems of Vocational Education and Training (VET) around the world and in some regions of Mexico, with the purpose of designing a new vocational model for the state of Guanajuato, integrating the educational and employability dimensions, and considering the new trends in vocational systems, that have evolved from an exclusive action of educational centers, towards a new conception that integrates strategic actions carried out collaboratively by educational, governmental, social and economic actors in the region. This is a research project where a documentary analysis methodology is applied, exploring different sources and references of vocation systems that have been implemented by different countries and in other states of the Mexican Republic, to make the proposal of a new vocation model, which is the theoretical-practical reference to coordinate the actions of different actors in the region, which facilitates adequate decision-making by Guanajuato students about the continuation of their educational preparation at the high school and college levels, in addition to the best option for employment. The resulting model integrates two major conceptual axes and four subcategories in each axis, so that it is the initial input for the design of state public policies, as well as the formation of strategies in the educational, social and economic sectors of the state of Guanajuato. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exposure to community violence among adolescents is not a recent phenomenon, the consequences have an impact on their development and performance. In Mexico there are few approaches on the issue despite its current relevance. This paper presents a qualitative approach using focus groups which allowed to know the characteristics of violence in the community to which students are exposed, as in the world literature found that older adolescents are more exposed. Although both men and women are considered equally exposed, men who reported more events and greater violence. Finally the analysis with Atlas.ti release is achieved conceptual organization allowing his later work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objectives of this paper were to study the ECODI27 distribution to determine a cut-point for diagnosis of the dissocial behavior problems as well to evaluate its discriminative and concurrent validity. A sample of 798 northwestern Mexican adolescent (648 students and 150 offenders) was used, and the measure instruments were ECODI27 and the EPI. The distributions of the ECODI27 and its factors were negatively skewed in the students' sample, but were normal in the sample of male offenders. A score of 85 or less was proposed for the dissocial disorder diagnosis. The scale and its factors presented discriminative and concurrent validity with the EPI 2-dimensions, especially with extroversion. Its bias with social desirability was scant. It is concluded that the ECODI is appropriate to use in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper refers to a proposed evaluation of the guidance program, referring to the experience level of the upper half of the Autonomus University of the Estado de México (UAEM), which was implemented from 2003; nearly at five years of implementation, it is necessary to assess development to establish its scope and expectations of operation. Keywords: educational guidance, assessment, epistemology, methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]