Estrategia de Intervención para la Transformación de las Concepciones y Prácticas Evaluativas de los Profesores


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Tesis Doctoral / Disertación del año 2010 en eltema Pedagogía - General, Nota: Excelente, , Idioma: Español, Resumen: El trabajo que se presenta está guiado por el objetivo de transformar las concepciones y las prácticas evaluativas del aprendizaje de los profesores de la Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte de Cuba. Después de haberse realizado un diagnóstico que permitió caracterizar el estado de la evaluación del aprendizaje en dicho contexto e identificar mediante encuestas, entrevistas a profesores y estudiantes, filmaciones y análisis de varios documentos (programas, informes departamentales, evaluaciones y otros), un conjunto de problemas que respondían a conceptos y prácticas tradicionales. Para propiciar la transformación de esta realidad, se modeló y aplicó una Estrategia de Intervención sustentada en el Enfoque Histórico Cultural y en recursos de la Investigación-Acción (I-A) que posibilitó que los docentes se implicaran activamente en la planificación y la ejecución de varias acciones para alcanzar dicho propósito, jugando un papel destacado la observación, la reflexión y la valoración de los efectos de éstas. Se conformó un grupo de trabajo que, desde el Proyecto de Investigación Institucional “MEVALAP” elaborado, se convirtió en el núcleo fundamental para la generación de ideas y la planificación y ejecución de las diferentes tareas, incidiendo sobre el claustro profesoral en diferentes espacios y niveles de sistematicidad, haciendo llegar las acciones y las transformaciones a los departamentos, a las disciplinas y asignaturas. El trabajo aporta resultados concretos, tales como: procedimientos e instrumentos diseñados que permiten el diagnóstico y la implicación activa de los profesores en los cambios que se gestaron en la evaluación del aprendizaje, también reflexiones, elaboraciones y valoraciones que evidencian las transformaciones en las concepciones y prácticas evaluativas de éstos, los que llegaron a producir impactos positivos a nivel institucional en diversas esferas e instancias del proceso docente-educativo. El mayor afán del autor y la mayor motivación que mueve la divulgación de esta obra científica, es que pueda constituir una experiencia útil para todos aquellos que se disponen a transformar la realidad en función de la mejora del quehacer pedagógico y la formación de los estudiantes.







Flip Your Classroom


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Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!




Sustaining Change in Universities


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In this work, Burton R. Clark uses case studies from 14 innovative institutions to propose a new conceptual framework offering original insights into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities.




International Handbook of Educational Change


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The International Handbook of Educational Change is a state of the art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The book brings together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means. It looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers, experience change differently. It looks at the positive aspects of change but does not hesitate to raise uncomfortable questions about many aspects of educational change either. It looks critically and controversially at the social, economic, cultural and political forces that are driving educational change. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find this book an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change, no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of educational change.




Addiction to Perfection


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"This book is about taking the head off an evil witch". With these words Marion Woodman begins her spiral journey, a powerful and authoritative look at the psychology and attitudes of modern women. Marion Woodman continues her remarkable exploration of women's mysteries through case material, dreams, literature and mythology, in food rituals, rape symbolism, Christianity, imagery in the body, sexuality, creativity and relationships.




Shaping the future we want


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How to Measure Survey Reliability and Validity


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UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Aimed at helping readers improve the accuracy of their survey, Litwin′s book guides in assessing and interpreting the quality of their survey data by thoroughly examining the survey instrument used. The book also explains how to code and pilot test new and established surveys. In addition, it covers such issues as how to measure reliability (e.g., test-retest, alternate-form, internal consistency, inter-observer, and intra-observer reliability), how to measure validity (including content, criterion, and construct validity), how to address cross-cultural issues in survey research, and how to scale and score a survey. "I found this work to be of very high quality with respect to both content and writing. It is commendable in terms of communicating and facilitating understanding of sometimes difficult concepts. It will make an excellent text for my introductory course on survey research and, I imagine, for many similar or related courses in the social sciences or education. All the pedagogical features, including the exercises, are excellent, and the level of writing throughout not only is appropriate for an introductory volume, but also engaging and lively." --Daniel U. Levine, Department of Education, University of Nebraska




Literacy Education


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Teaching Science for Understanding


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Teaching Science for Understanding