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The study was aimed at establishing a relationship between the process of drafting and editing scientific papers and the process of education, training and professional development of researchers. Text analysis, as an alternative of the method of analysis the activity results, was the key method used for conducting the investigation. The total number of articles published at Transformación scientific journal during 2013 and the first semester of 2015. The features characterizing the contribution of each author were compared to the rest of his/her production. The findings include the description of informational and investigative components of researcher training, the challenge the drafting of paper poses to researcher trainees and the contribution of the editing process to such education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The potentialities of the educational units as medium of university extension, as material vehicle of promotion of culture, in their more wide meaning, it is the referring that defends this work. It includes a summaries of the main epistemological conceptions about the extension as university process, as well as those that it maintain to the educational units as fundamental vehicle for the investigative labor formation and it reflects about the possibilities of these to be a canal that possesses the university to extend their culture to community. Appear also a proposal of methodology for the development of the process of university extension in the educational units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presented describes a linguodidactic strategy to enhance teachers' skills in scientific communication, since the relationship science-technology-society-education requires that scientific results are communicated effectively and efficiently to the scientific community and society. The strategy was the result of an institutional project of the Central University «Marta Abreu» of Las Villas, which ran from 2011-2013 and obtained Prize Provincial Academy of Sciences Award Rector Cuba and the result already implemented most useful to Education superior. Among the actions executed diagnoses were highlighted; the description of the linguistic peculiarities of scientific language; indicators for evaluation; digital resources; conferences, courses, and training; which were developed in different centers of higher education and institutions. The strategy is characterized by integrating the linguistic and the didactic; see action in Spanish and English; by the work of teachers and students; by the joint efforts of teachers of Spanish, English and computing from research. The strategy helps teachers produce better quality scientific papers, watching the ethical principles of the scientist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Model of Formation of the Professional of the Accounting and the Finances, it is modeled the formation of a professional of wide profile and on the logic of the profession, where the process of formation of investigative-labor abilities plays an important paper. This model will be determined in great measure by the formation contents that those professionals will acquire, where the use of the countable method as procedure to solve the countable and financial problems in correspondence with the accountant's functions, it will propitiate the domain of the investigative-labor abilities, as those abilities that express in themselves the way of acting of this professionals. The present article is directed to establish the paper of the countable method inside the process of formation of investigativelabor abilities in the students of Accounting and Finances of the Pinar del Río University. For they were used it theoretical methods as: the historical method - logical; the analysis method and synthesis and the induction method and deduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper had the objective of showing the thinking flexibility diagnosis results in Pedagogy Psychology students in Guantánamo University. The study encloses and systematizes the historic antecedents and national and international theoric-methodological referents and psycho-pedagogical point of view related to the thematic. At the same time analyzes different definitions of thinking flexibility, employing different psycho pedagogical evaluation technics for the characterization in Pedagogy Psychology students' career. The diagnosis revealed a tendency to a rigid thinking in the students learning process that mediatizes the formal synthesis operations, abstraction, comparison and generalization, and difficults the students' flexible thinking development. The employed technics viability, was evidenced from the obtained results, proving the real possibility of being used by the professors for diagnosis the thinking flexibility, as a part of the students psycho-pedagogical characterization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presented by the authors aims at making a reflection about the teaching of learning strategies as a pedagogic perspective for the transformations of tertiary education in Cuba. The paper is based on the transformations that are taking place in the world today and particularly in the Cuban tertiary educative system. The authors also assume the rationale of developing teaching-learning process. Some questions briefly answered are precisely related to the important role that the teaching of learning strategies play in the process of educative changes. ¿What are learning strategies?, ¿which role is given to the teaching of learning strategies in the process of changes?, ¿How to sustain the teaching of learning strategies in the process of transformation in tertiary education? and ¿What methodological lines should orient any pedagogical performance that has as its objective to teach learning strategies in tertiary education? Some instruments for a diagnosis used in the pedagogic research by the authors can contribute to know the students' learning process better. It is reflected when teaching learning strategies. It is concluded that learning strategies can be taught and learned in an instructional context in the Cuban tertiary education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evaluation of the academic efficiency of the universities is a practice in the institutional evaluation, closely related to the quality and performance of the educational process and a starting point for the decision making that allows drawing the policies for the development of the university system. In this paper, is analyzed the experience in the evaluation of academic efficiency in the Ministry of Higher Education universities, and also, the studies related, carried out in Cuba, are approached with a critical analysis. As a goal, a model is proposed for its evaluation that may contribute to the elevation of its results in MES universities, which represents an alternative to improve the bases to carry it out, which was favorably valued by the experts consulted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The solution of physical chemistry problems is one of the main ways for students to acquire knowledge and develop skills. For the teachers it is an effective way to evaluate the progress of the students in the learning of the different contents of the subject. The knowledge of the strategies used by the students to solve the problems has an extraordinary importance, since it allows the teacher to favor those that propitiate the best solution, making the teaching - learning process more efficient. This paper presents the results obtained, through a case study, in a group of third-year students of the Industrial Chemical career, which allowed isolating and characterizing the strategies used to solve the problems assigned to them. A study like this presents great potential for the diagnosis of learning in a subject and the corresponding measures to reverse the shortcomings that are detected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a study about the knowledge the students had when beginning the agronomy studies during the 2008-2009 course. The measurements are based on the theoretical grounds of the integration of content, as a primordial element in the agronomist engineer formation. In the opinion of the authors of this paper, the integration of contents goes beyond the teaching-learning process which supports it and directly influences on the content integrated appropriation results as a consequence of the learning integrated management. The study includes an integrated knowledge test; its results show the students entry level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is about a very important topic nowadays, the pedagogical permanent formation of professors due to their manifest lack of knowledge about pedagogical issues. Most of these professionals have been well prepared in many fields, other than pedagogy, thus they have not been educated to perform as lecturers. For this reason, this is a strategic area for their professional development to guarantee their performance in the teaching-learning activities and other crucial activities in campus. It is proposed in this paper, a systematization methodology that helps to alleviate the need for pedagogical knowledge among the faculty in the University of Cienfuegos, "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez". In this research, the theoretical foundations of the Systematization Theory are taken as scientific support because it highlights the methodological conception of the systematization of the lecturers education on Pedagogy in a coherent, holistic, strategic and adapted to the context of the characteristics of the new Cuban University. It is worth to take into account the importance given to the practical experience of the lecturers as key element in the perfectioning of permanent education in modern higher education. The revision of official documents and regulations of the Higher Education Ministry was very important to develop three workshops where academic leaders and professors linked to the program of massive university education to diagnose their performance of these professionals and to transform the educative reality in a critic and collective way taking as starting point the education about pedagogy the professors may receive as premise for the improvement of the education process they lead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of the relics that possess different nations there is the built heritage that has significant historical, cultural and social values. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries were built in the historic center of the city of Havana, many important buildings with stone materials originating in the Island. These buildings have undergone a process of deterioration over time by the action of different agents, chemical, physical, biological and environmental accelerated today by pollution from human activities. In the Faculty San Geronimo de La Habana is formed the Bachelor in Preservation and Management of the Historical and Cultural Heritage, with knowledge, skill and values necessaries for the preservation and management of historical and cultural heritage. Within the discipline The Heritage and its Conservation of the study plan of the career, the students obtain knowledge that integrates the cultural, artistic and historic fundamentals of built (and not built) heritage with basic concepts of experimental sciences, Chemistry among them. In the paper a case study is presented: the Convent and Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi to illustrate the importance of knowledge in chemistry of these professionals in the interpretation of phenomena of degradation and in recommending actions of conservation of stone materials used in the construction of the old buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper, the authors propose methodological linings to work with foreign language learning strategies in tertiary education through five directions elaborated from the pedagogic research project Didactic system for the development of learning strategies in oral communication in English language for non-philological university students?. In the updated bibliography that was checked, the authors realized the necessity to elaborate methodological guidelines due to the fact that the ones they studied were not in accordance with what they needed for their project. The pedagogical practice confirmed what was stated before. The proposed directions are worked interdependently and can be used as a system that takes as basis the communicative approach methodology and its principles, communicative competence, didactic principles of the Cuban pedagogy and the principles stated by Rebeca Oxford. The directions are also part of the guidelines to work with the didactic system elaborated by the authors. Although they have particular character, they can be transferred flexibly to teach language learning strategies in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The results of putting into practice the linings have been satisfactory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on considerations done in two previous papers about the viability to assume certain premises of the curricular approach based on the formation by competences; this possibility in relation to important aspects of the improvement in professionals formation in Cuba are discussed. Special attention is dedicated in this paper on discussion about the development of the denominated curricular strategies in Cuban Superior Education. Founded on these premises the idea to continue assuming, agreed with the increasing exigencies of our society, the challenges that until the moment have implied the development of the denominated curricular strategies in the curricula, are viable using itself some of the bases that are applied in the approach of formation by competences in relation to the denominated generic competences, transversals or professional basic, being an alternative makes specific the proposals that in present work consider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper shows the results of an on-going pedagogical research project at Calixto García Medical School. It aimed at designing and applying a pedagogical strategy in this school to improve the scientific skills of medical students and residents. The project was based on the need to improve the quality of students' papers presented at their Scientific Conferences. To test the students' scientific skills, a pilot study was done by means of reviewing some students' papers and giving questionnaires. These instruments revealed the students' strengths and weaknesses in doing research. The study took into consideration the importance of research skills since the undergraduate level, so that future doctors can write better dissertation reports for specialization, master's programmes or PhD theses. The results of the study indicated that there is a need to improve students' scientific activity and to perform pedagogical interventions for a better training of both students and tutors. Consequently, a supplementary course on research methodology and paper writing was designed and taught at Calixto García School. Benefits were obviously obtained since students and residents from this school won the first place in the Havana Higher Institute of Medical Sciences (ISCM-H) Scientific Conference in the years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper present the autor judgment about to consider the process of elaborate and the application of the Internal Rules as a tool for the better development of the Educational and Pedagogical Process, considering at the same time the better development in the education of the students and its reciprocal relationship between the above mentioned Rules and the actual dispositions for the educational process. This paper consider that the students Rules must be taken into account for the rules that must be fulfilled by the teachers and related worker of the institution. It establishes the needed introduction or ethical explanation to each of the articles used. The author is willing to express that the constant and systematic activity about this document in order to maintain in the university campus the efficient and efficacy of the educational process capable of contribute to the formation of the new human been. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper which deals with the professorial training, a relevant topic for the Cuban Higher Education, present the results of a research which was developed at Sibanicu Municipal University Campus, all through the school years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, having proved that there were contradictions between the general formation of the professors who guide teaching staffs and the specific formation they need to develop their functions. The study's objective was to design and apply the proposal of a strategy to conduct the training of the eight professors who were guiding teaching staffs at this center. Different theoretical methods were used to analyze the documentary information, to demonstrate the scientific hypothesis, to characterize the required training process, to provide the model with the required theoretic support and to propose the strategy. Empirical methods were also used to reveal the existence of the problem and its causes. The study permitted to characterize the formation of these professors as general and not suitable in order to guide their teaching staffs; it also provided a system of actions and a group of consulting materials which enable the unequal treatment that each professor needs. The proposal was putted into practice during the second semester of the school year 2012 - 2013 and the school year 2013-2014. It elevated the efficacy of the work at Sibanicu Municipal University Campus; that's why the proposal is considered a way of important value to guarantee the teaching training of the professors who guide teaching staffs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the current paper is based on the study of typologies of problems on Chemistry used in the teaching-learning process of engineering majors at Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana. Its purpose is to propose a new typology of problems on Chemistry as a discipline, that may favor the elaboration of qualitative, quantitative and experimental problems that can be more interesting, varied and updated. This typology is meant to fulfill the requirements set for Syllabus E in the Engineering majors. The methods applied for this research were source analysis and criticism, the systemic-structural-functional method and modelling. Other methods used were observation, experimentation and experts' criteria. The opinion shed by professors in the implementation of this research was favorable. Better academic results were achieved during the last three school years in Civil Engineering and Automatics majors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is aimed at examining the implications of historical-cultural school conceptions main theses on educational research process, going from the overall comprehension of the object of research to the methods to be applied and the procedures proposed for its transformation. The notion of instrumental mediation, anatomic physiological mediation and especially social mediation is taken into consideration. The psychic development is revealed as a result of the educational process, which is considered as an interactive and interpersonal process that should favor both the orientation and internalization processes. Examples of educational research completed by the main author are given to argue the influence of this perspective on research related to intellectual stimulated development on slight mental retarded children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research training plays an important role as part of the professional model of the university careers in most countries and particularly in Cuba. The student in training should get research skills which enable him to solve the professional problems that he will face in the future. This requires teaching learning strategies to power the research component training systematically through different types of lessons. Many academic disciplines often use as a type of class the laboratory practical, but its potentialities to develop the research component in students are not always fully used. The aim of this paper was to reveal those potentialities and to design a methodology for improving the research skills training of students through the laboratory practical as a type of lesson. A bibliographic systematization made possible to state links between experimental skills and research skills to develop by the students and based on that, a useful methodology for any experimental subject was proposed. The methodological proposal was evaluated by a group of experienced teachers on the field through a survey and their opinions showed a positive evaluation of the proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The variable and dynamic current socioeconomic environment requires graduating competent professionals in accounting and finances degree, which can give immediate answers for solving economy problems. On the other hand, the Econometrics principles should be considered for carrying out economic predictions, avoiding the resources wasting. Starting from this challenge and keeping in mind the different statistical model that the subject Econometrics offers, it should be convenient to impart the contents approached in the same one linked to the solution of economic problems. This paper aims to reflect the importance, for the accounting and finances students, the Econometrics subject in the practice and solution of economy problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The low development of research skills is one of the most common difficulties faced by university students, which makes it difficult for them to carry out various fact-finding actions, as well as the successful completion of their thesis work. One of the issues that is not always taken into account is the necessary hierarchy among those research skills, because it is not possible to develop them all at the same time, as there are different levels of generality. Precisely, the ability to formulate scientific problems is considered the basis of the development of the others, according to the logic itself of the research process. In the initial research training of Psychology students this problem is not an exception, due to the insufficiencies that they present for the accomplishment of activities of this nature. The objective of this paper is to present the experiences obtained in the application of didactic innovation in the teaching process of the contents of the subject Methodology of Scientific Research, which is taught in the Psychology course in the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador. A survey and interview were applied to the students, teachers and graduates of the course to know their criteria on the development of such skill, as well as a preexperiment that validated, in a partial way, the applied didactic innovation. The obtained results show that it is possible to contribute to the development of this ability to formulate scientific problems, considering them not only as knowledge in action but contents that are integrated to the formation of the personality of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teaching of statistics in university courses aims to develop skills that allow students to apply knowledge in solving problems of the profession. However, the exercises in the texts usually include the contents of a topic or a section of a subject, which does not contribute to training on integrated statistical content in the solution of such problems application and preparing students to successfully perform tests integrators. This paper aims to present a proposal to the integration of statistical content through the exercise, which is complemented by the development of a system integrators topics and exercises within the contents of the issues. some conceptualizations about the integration of content are also performed, and typing exercises exposed by levels [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new tendencies for the Procedural Law teaching worldwide are focused in ascending way towards the formation of litigant’s skills. This work aims to analyze the challenges of pedagogical and didactic teaching and learning process of Procedural Law in Cuba. Theoretical methods such as historical –logical, analysis and synthesis, and empirical methods such as document review, surveys and interviews were used. Furthermore, the paper suggests curricular and extracurricular alternatives aimed at improving the training process for litigation in the University of Pinar del Río. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The future of any country greatly depends on the quality of its educational system, and on what professors are able to do in function of the formation of the future generations. That is why systematic efforts are carried out at present to achieve graduations representative in terms of quantity and quality of education professionals. Cuban universities continually look for mechanisms allowing improving the formation of education professionals; a reflection of it is the aspirations expressed by the formation models. In spite of it, in the formation of Mathematics and Physics professors, there are difficulties that impact on the non-fulfillment of the demands expressed in the model of the professional and on the inappropriate levels of preparation of the newly graduate. In their study plan at the curricular level, several disciplines converge, among which Mathematical Analysis sometimes becomes an impassable barrier for the students entering this specialty. The present paper exposes the main aspects with difficulties in the topic Functions and proposes an own curriculum program to elevate the students' level of knowledge in the contents related with the topic, as starting point for the subjects of the discipline mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of teaching and learning how to read in a foreign language is a complex problem. It presents, at each level, well defined objectives which are closely related to the development and maturity achieved by the student. Besides, reading not only assumes the oral reproduction of the signs of written language but also the comprehension of the message being communicated, which depends, to a large extent, on the knowledge of vocabulary and sociocultural elements of the context in which the student learns. In order to develop reading comprehension skills, it is necessary to treat the different levels of understanding throughout the course. Studies on the didactic process of comprehension and its corresponding levels may fit the activities of reading comprehension in Spanish courses for non-Spanish speakers. In courses where this linguistic activity is predominant, the exercises should be varied and pass through the different levels. The authors of this paper provide a proposal to develop reading comprehension at A2 level in teaching Spanish as a second language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This scientific paper focuses the problem of classification of methods of scientific research. Probably covered in theoretical research, not just what they have been awarded scientific knowledge that it is obtained, but also the method by which it is obtained. Is there any chance that supports logical methodological consistency of classification methods in this science are instituted? What reason attends the defense of the idea, that the methodology of scientific research stands through empirical methods, where, regardless of the empirical constitutes the above to the scientific level, the theoretical and the empirical are exclusive natures of knowledge? What arguments invoked in order to demonstrate the falsity of the thesis in which I become identical knowledge and methods according to their scientific nature? Why cling undoubtedly the medieval universal educational thought to absolute canons and the concept of method as a way or path holding?, we would not be far from the scientificity that he quintessential definition and it should be given? The basal idea is to defend and to subsume questions formulated above is to be irrevocably dialectical relationship between the method and theory, which necessarily comes first classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of the relation between structure and properties of the substances is very important in engineering. This paper objective is to provide, from the educational point of view, the location of the elements in the Periodic Table, from its electronic distribution. Some theoretical methods were applied during the investigation, such as the analysis and criticism of the sources, the systemic method, as well as other empiric ones, such as the observation and the opinion of the experts. All these methods made possible the achievement of an innovative general procedure that has the advantage of unifying those already existing and incorporating the study of the elements named "rare soils" that have many applications in last generation technologies. With the implementation of this new procedure have achieved good academic results, in the learning of the relationship between structure and properties of substances, these results constitute a modest contribution to the teaching of chemistry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to describe the realization of integrative seminars between subjects Organic Chemistry and Preparation for the Defense in the group of third-year Radiochemistry Specialty in the InSTEC. The experience was developed for 5 consecutive courses. As a result, two seminars each year, where students presented the results of his visits to the Department of Defense of InSTEC and the Executive Center of the National Authority for the Non-Proliferation of Chemical Weapon were performed. The seminars were titled "Organic chemical compounds used as weapons of mass destruction and of interest to the defense of the country" developed with the InSTEC Department of Defense and "Compounds of organic chemistry precursors of chemical weapon" developed in the CEANPAQ. A high level of independence of the groups was observed in the organization of visits, search and review of information and class presentation of results oriented activity. This experience also led to the strengthening of ties of teachers and specialists of the parts involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teacher academic performance evaluation is a way of increasing the quality of teaching at the university and an important source to carry out this process is the student's criteria. The aim of this paper was to analyze the evaluation of the academic competencyof a teacher, using the student's perceptions, through a Research Methodology course that was thought as a part of the mastership in Spanish language and literature teaching taking place at Artemisa University, Cuba. To do so, a survey based on the academic competency indicators was used. The software “Coharentia" made possible to process the results of the survey. According to the student's perceptions, the teacher was evaluated as competent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of an all-round education of undergraduate professionals represents an indisputable support to guarantee the quality of the graduate of our universities. In this effort we must address not only instructional and educational aspects of the subjects and disciplines, but others that in their interaction with them, help to develop traits insufficiently addressed in these learners. From this point of view it has been seen the importance of the direction of the educational activity related to the treatment follows to the curricular strategies, which incorporate a new look to the vision of the characteristics of the training process. This paper addresses the treatment about the pedagogical management of the English Language Curricular Strategy, through the educational process and aims: to guide - a collective of teachers of Social Theory and Methodology – by means of the argumentation and analysis the pathways and procedures to promote the development of basic communication skills in English, based on the teaching sequences and the potential of content in a class meeting. Its application shows that the methodological treatment of the English communication skills is the genetic cell for the pedagogical management of the English Language Curricular Strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The academic efficiency and quality issues and performance of the universities, has always been the center of attention on the institutional evaluation and decision-making within the general development strategy of the university system. In this paper, the stage reached by the Cuban Higher Education and the challenges for institutional evaluation of universities is discussed, particularly those related to academic efficiency, studies in our country on the same are addressed in a critical analysis of the approaches used in evaluation. Finally a summary of the current problems related to it in the universities of Ministry of Higher Education and a proposal of a new indicator for each year statistical system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drinking the cultural heritage in our time is to defend the identity and closer to the pedagogical practice is crucial especially for law students, lawgivers, who inspire the approach of this paper. It is intention to expose the essential aspects relate to the Island of Cuba with one of the most important events in Spain in XIX century, marking the Spanish liberalism and its influence on the overseas provinces, that is why it pretend give a point of view about the contents of Spanish Constitution of 1812, over two hundred years of its proclamation, in terms of education. Also it talks about the projection of Felix Varela as a precursor of liberating thought, his participation in the Spanish Court during the period between 1821 and 1823 valuations development of higher education in the nineteenth century are included because of their importance in publiceducation and politics of the time.This groundhelps to understandthe roots of liberating thought and their needs for the transformation of higher education on a scientific basis. Methodology used was based on the documental review and the analysis of content such as technique of qualitative nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doctoral training in pedagogical science has had a sustained development in Cuba that has caused a steady increase of doctoral theses; however, the quality of the theses defended has not been systematically subjected to an evaluation to determine the difficulties that affect them. The aim of this paper is to assess their quality through the shortcomings identified by expert judgment, so a survey was applied to several specialists from different universities in the country, according to their professional experience in the training of doctors in this specialty. The criteria were processed through a qualitative methodology, which have a high degree of overlap and reveal several problems related to insufficient cultural and scientific background of the candidates, the weaknesses of the theoretical and methodological designs and the little rigor of the results contributed by scientists. Several suggestions to continue researching this problem are proposed, as well as ways to improve the professionalism of PhD already trained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper was to verify by means of a descriptive case study the students' acceptance for incorporating educational guides in exe-learning to the teaching-learning means system for the subject Mathematics II with freshmen of Food Sciences in the academic year 2012-2013 in attended study modality, at the University of Camagüey “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz", Cuba. It has managed to implement a learning object in order to guide the independent study and encourage self-learning. This is a website supported on exe -learning that has instructional devices for reading activities, reflection and self- evaluation. In the work performed the case study showed as a result the adoption of this learning object in the means system of the subject by the students and positive results in 5 of the 6 variables used. A majority of freshmen of Food Science explored the learning object implemented and used it in the independent study of three topics. In the means system of the subject the more accepted resource by the students was the companion book "Calculus with Early Transcendent" by James Stewart, but they recognize the value of the educational guide in exe-learning in order to achieve focus on the examples and similar exercises to those made in classroom activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of the tutors in the universities is every more outstanding day and it constitutes a topic of high interest for this teaching type, reason why, this paper is presented that shows the results of the educational work, developed by the tutors of the Faculty of Nature Sciences of the Universidad de Oriente in function of the satisfaction of the students measured through surveys from the course 2007 - 2008 up to the 2012 - 2013. Maximum levels of the students' satisfaction were reached with the acting of the tutors in the courses 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 in three of the four careers of the faculty: in that of Chemistry in first, third, fourth and fifth years, in the career of Physics in third, fourth and fifth years and in the career of Pharmaceutical Sciences in first, fourth and fifth years, being evaluated this work of effective for the integral formation of the professional futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is intended to express some theoretical and practical considerations about the process of designing didactic training of professionals, so that helps promote the professionals who are in college public participation in cultural spaces. Promote the idea that such a transformation in students is argued, requires the development of actions to arouse in them a personal need, the enjoyment of the arts and literature, as well as artistic and aesthetic sensitivity training. The formation of cultural audiences on campus is conceptualized. Theoretically modeled the dynamics of cultural management training system extension and teaching procedures for implementation on campus is proposed. The relevance of the proposals made is corroborated through consultation with a group of specialists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this papers is presented research skills expected in students from careers with informatics profile computer regarding the Software Development Process seen from two perspectives: considering the first group work in the software development team and teams for professional roles, and second in software development as a Diploma Work but that in turn must take into account the Software Development Process. It shows what the research skills associated with professional roles of software analyst, developer, database administrator, software architect, underwriter quality software and technical reviewer (software tester). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In engineering education in computer science is essential to work with numerical sets. The curriculum includes career treating this topic in different subjects and it is precisely in numerical mathematics which completes the study of real numbers, when this content is directly applicable in computing. To ensure proper training, the teacher needs to constantly develop case studies that serve different types of students, but creating them requires performing complex calculations. This paper presents an educational software for comparing representations of real numbers and arithmetic in different variations experienced in the properties of continuous and differentiable functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the present paper is to provide an assessment and integration didactics that will eventually lead to the development of competencies in the formulation of the scientific problem from the components that identify and characterize. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theroleof universitiesis to forma technical professional capable of assimilating all changes ineverysp here of life, particularly in science and technology. Engineering, for its part, has a very significant role because it allows the planning, construction, operation, maintenance and modernization of infrastructure projects as well as the generation of goods and products, providing services necessary for the development of the country, which requires engineering professionals each day have better preparation. The refiremen process of the formation of a wide profile graduate emphasizes basic training ands kill acquisition, in view of the necessary self–preparation hat requiresa professional contemporary company. The development ofa solid foundation of essential knowledge, particularly in Mathematics, ways and methods of performance, enables the graduate college provide greater capacity to assimilate new knowledge and develop new techniques. Hence it is intended, in this paper, is to show how it should be carried out the teaching of mathematics to achieve the integral development of a quality engineer, able to meet the challenges of the future professional life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important aspects that should be considered in the initial training process of the different careers in engineering is related to the formation and development of professional skills, in particular, the integration between the treatment of content and the skills professionals. The initial training of professional skills has a space in the preparation of Industrial Engineers and must be performed from the different disciplines of the curriculum in students of Industrial Engineering. The paper makes an analysis of the criteria of different authors on the subject of the professional skills training, the authors offer a concept of professional skill and is proposes an integration between actions and operations for the treatment of the concepts of calculus integral in the discipline General Mathematics and of the professional skill: draw solutions and determine strategies with scientific rigor in the first year of Industrial Engineering. They also present the stages for the formation of the professional skill. The use of theoretical methods enabled an analysis of how occur the process of formation professional skills, using of treatment of the content in the disciplines and subjects for students of Industrial Engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teaching learning process has gone a long way through the history of education in which the curriculum has been transformed within the traditional education models. This paper aims at proposing an alternative about the way of teaching, taking into account the integration of two subjects: Sociology of Culture and Social Psychology, which are taught in the Socio-cultural Studies career. By means of the syllabuses of both subjects t it is expressed the importance of teaching them through the extension, the participation and developmental elements considering the main objective of this career: to investigate the community and the bettering of their settlers. It is not possible to continue teaching these subjects separately, because they both have the same system of content. Some workshops are proposed under the principle of interdisciplinary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study carried out in relation to the development of the sociocultural competence in pre-service Foreign Language teachers at "Félix Varela" Pedagogical University. First of all, the study presents both the conceptual and operational definitions of the term, assuming a notion of competence as a complex psychological configuration. Then, it presents the essential features of a didactic model, specifically designed by the authoress for the development process of such competence in the particular context of a curricular discipline named Integrated English Practice. The implementation of the model was carried out through a pedagogical pre-experiment. Different methods belonging to both the theoretical and the empirical levels of knowledge were used for the experiment. Within the empirical level the most important ones were the pedagogical test, the survey, the scientific observation, and the analysis of documents. The results of the study were essentially positive, which stimulated the development of further research on the matter pursuing improvement and efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, the teaching - learning process in higher education increasingly heads to the fact that the student could turn into a much more active individual in his/her training, which demands the student a more independent training where the individual acquisition of knowledge made by the student must be the center of the process with a systematic, independent and creative dedication to the study and with a high development of the ability of managing its own knowledge, and where the information technology and communications play an important role in the achievement of these transformations. With this aim, courses and subjects are planned and improved, and new methods and teaching means are developed. By means of this paper, emphasis is made on the importance of the independent work to improve the student's cognitive autonomy and his/her creative thinking in higher education, particularly in the process of assimilating mathematics -- a science in constant development and existent in almost every curricula of university courses because of its importance in the accomplishment of certain skills in the organization of ideas or thoughts of future professionals, and as key element in scientific and technological advances of mankind. To carry out this analysis a study was made of how from the perspective of students and teachers the Guiding, Enforcement and Control of the Independent Work is performed, results that show the need of carrying on with its improvement to attain the fulfilment of its true role in the learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to achieve a more education, it is a priority in Cuba to know the behavior of enrollment as well as the implementation of strategies of access and retaiment. These strategies are constantly restructured in order to meet the social needs. This paper explains the theoretical basics that underlay in curriculum conception including the aspects of gender perspectives as ones of the challenges for higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, an effective development of the Informatics Sciences Engineers' education in the Engineering and Management of Software discipline, through the participation of the students in the software industry, has not been achieved. The main causes have been the non-systemic and limited treatment of the components and the dynamics of the teaching-learning process; as well as the distinctly empiric character of its conception. At the University of Informatics Sciences, the discipline faces the problem of how to achieve a conception of the student's education that integrates the teaching and the industrial software production. As a solution, this paper exposes a systematization of the theoretical-methodological foundations that support the conception needed at the university, as well as a didactic model and strategy that allows its introduction into the educational practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to identify the problems that are impacting the dedication to the study of the diurnal course students in higher education institutions (CES) subscribed to the Ministry of Higher Education (MES). This research was conducted using the standard expert criterion method, applying to collected information a methodology based on the "Structural Analysis" Technique, developed by specialists of the Center for the Improvement of Higher Education who has developed a Structural Automated Analysis System (ESAF), which served as sustenance for the processing and analysis of the results of this study. The results obtained allowed experts to identify 16 problems that are related to students study dedication. The paper also identifies the key issues which need and urgent response related with the students study and study dedication, and also the main problems that most influence the study dedication. The results of this study suggest that when designing a strategy to increase the students study dedication should include actions that give priority to those problems that are most relevant among those featured in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has developed a method to determine the monotony, the local extremes, intervals of convexity, inflection points of rational functions and solving optimization problems, which is a scientific novelty, not only from a mathematical point of view but also teaching. We have studied the topological properties of these functions. The generalization of the method includes determining turning points, without the use of limits and derivatives; the necessary and sufficient conditions are not used, expressed in the criteria of the first, second and nth derivatives. The analysis of the calculations can be done with a pencil and paper, but the use of computer technology allows students and teachers of uncountable possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Plan of Action Integral Tutoral is shown that cooperates to the student's formation, starting from the improvement of the work tutoral, the educational and political-ideological work, to elevate the permanency and academic efficiency in the Central Headquarters and Municipal University Centers. Theoretical, empiric methods were used, as well as the approach of an expert group of the UNAH "Fructuoso Rodríguez Pérez", what allowed to determine inadequacies of the work tutoral, in the planning, characterization of the tutorados and lack of orientation of the activity, for what doesn't reach the protagonism, improvement and efficiency that it is expected from her, in correspondence with the current state of this work in the CES and CUM of the counties of Mayabeque and Artemisa. A Plan of Action Integral Tutoral is exposed, assisting to the five dimensions of its to work, its foundation, characterization, is presented general objective, stages and its specific objectives, procedures and tasks of these, including the actions for its implementation in the different levels of address of the Educational Process. The paper of the work tutoral is evaluated in the current stage of the Cuban university, and the importance of having a Plan of Action Integral Tutoral, like instrument for the improvement of the tutorship. Where their progress and effectiveness are closely bound to the indicators of academic efficiency, formation of values and the educational work. It is to contribute to the student's integral formation, from the pattern existent semipresencial in the Cuban Superior Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The university, space of analysis, critical reflection, educational and technological innovation, and center of cultural development, acts in both the environmental problem research and the looking for a model according to the sustainable development. It is needed to create an adequate perception of the environmental problems, and also to work out in political, technological, educative and administrative procedures with participation of the university community and citizenship. This is most important if the activities concerning to engineering of the geology, mining and metallurgic profiles is referred. This paper presents an interdisciplinary strategy of environmental formation that permit to design and environmental formation model by skills conceived for any career. So, its application become specific in agreement with the procedures and skills defined in career's curriculum. For a better comprehension the strategy is exemplified for Metallurgic Engineering career of the High Mining-Metallurgic Institute of Moa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]