ÁNGEL VÁZQUEZ ALONSO y MARÍA ANTONIA MANASSERO
MAS
Factores determinantes de las actitudes relacionadas con la ciencia.
VÍCTOR SANTIUSTE BERMEJO, EMILIO GARCÍA GARCÍA,
CARLOS L. AYALA FLORES y CARMEN BARRIGUETE MERCHÁN
Comprensión de textos filosóficos en alumnos de COU:
un estudio empírico.
XABIER DE SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ
Sobre la evaluación de la actividad docente del profesorado
universitario: ¿Está mediatizada la valoración de
los alumnos por las calificaciones?
CONCEPCIÓN F. ABRAIRA FERNÁNDEZ
Evaluación formativa de un programa para la enseñanza
las matemáticas a alumnos de magisterio.
SALVADOR ALGARABEL, CARMEN DASI, ARCADIO GOTOR y MANUEL PEREA
Solución de problemas: una revisión de la importancia
del uso de heurísticos y una evaluación de su utilización
en matemáticas.
MARIANO G. HERRÁIZ GASCUEÑA
La conceptualización de la infancia deficiente en los iniciosde
la educación especial europea.
ÁNGEL VÁZQUEZ ALONSO and MARÍA
ANTONIA MANASSERO MAS
FACTORS INFLUENCING SCIENCE-RELATED ATTITUDES
The variables influencing science-related attitudes have received a
lot of researchers' attention that have also generated many but often inconsistent
results. Some determinants of attitudes frequently emphasized in the literature
are the gender, the number of science subjects studied in the curricula
and the grade/kind of studies. The aim of this study is to analyze the
influence of these factors on the students' attitudes employing a representative
sample of all the educational levels. Attitudes are assessed by means of
a questionnaire implementing the taxonomy of science-related attitudes.
The results show a mildly good total attitude that is significantly better
as the grade, the age of the student, and the degree of exposition to science
increases. Men's attitudes are better that those of women across all attitude
variables, but just as a slight tendency, because the differences between
men and women's attitudes are not significant.
Key Words: Science-related attitudes, Attitudes towards science,
Scientific attitudes, Attitudes and gender, Attitudes and type of studies.
VÍCTOR SANTIUSTE BERMEJO, EMILIO GARCÍA
GARCÍA, CARLOS L. AYALA FLORES and CARMEN BARRIGUETE MERCHÁN
COMPREHENSION OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN C.O.U. STUDENTS. AN EMPIRICAL
STUDY
By means of the present work-study we aimed at exploring the way a
group of pre-university students employ reading comprehension strategies
in order to approach a philosophical text, and the way these strategies
influence upon its comprehension.
The study group was conformed by 604 pupils, all of which belonged
to C.O.U. level (Curso de Orientación Universitaria) in private
and public centres in Madrid. The pupils read for twenty minutes a philosophical
text about which they answered a series of written questions. Next, they
completed a questionnaire about the strategies they made use of for the
comprehension of the text. We infer from the data analysis that the pupils
have a variety of strategies in order to face the reading of the text,
out of which they choose those they consider more relevant for their current
task.
Results confirm three chief ideas: a) C.O.U. students belonging to
science options achieve highest punctuation than those studying arts in
the questions related to the text, specially in those refering to the interrelation
discoveries and the emission of judgements; b) there is no difference in
the number of strategies used in learning between the various C.O.U. option
students; there is nevertheless, a distinction in the use of specific combinations
of these strategies; c) the use of strategies influences on the reading
comprehension.
Key Words: Reading Comprehension, Philosophical Texts, Learning
Strategies, Teaching of Philosophy.
XABIER DE SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ
ON THE EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS: IS THE STUDENTS'
EVALUATION OF THEIR TEACHERS MEDIATED BY THE MARKS THEY OBTAIN?
The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between the marks
obtained by the students and their evaluation of teacher's lectures and
teaching skills (university teaching effectiveness). There is a possible
interpretation of this issue as halo effect. The unit analysed is the subject.
Some variables have been included in the correlational study: the particular
year in the program, the faculty involved and the number of teachers in
charge of the subject. The results obtained suggest that the students'
marks may distort rather significatively the evaluation made by the students.
Key Words: Teaching effectiveness, Higher education, Halo efect.
CONCEPCIÓN F. ABRAIRA FERNÁNDEZ
FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM: A CASE STUDY WITH
FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE SUBJECT AREA OF MATHEMATICS.
The purpose of this paper is to publish the results of a formative
syllabus research carried out among future primary school teachers in the
subject area of mathematics. We conclude that the formative assessment
of pupils is an effective part of the teaching process.
Key Words: Attitude. Didactics of Mathematics. Formative Assessment
of pupils and syllabi. Teacher Training. Achievement.
SALVADOR ALGARABEL, CARMEN DASI, ARCADIO
GOTOR and MANUEL PEREA
PROBLEM SOLVING: A REVIEW OF THE IMPORTANCE OF HEURISTICS USE, AND
AN ASSESMENT OF THEIR USEFULNESS IN MATHEMATICS.
A heuristics is a strategy, sometimes not very well structured, whose
purpose is to help to find a problem solution. In the present paper, a
group of mathematicians rated a set of heuristics rules for their usefulness
in four fields: Geometry, differential calculus, algebra and statistics.
The heuristics are structured in three groups: those associated with the
analysis of the problem; those associated with the search for a solution,
and those asociated to the checking of the solution. Results may be taken
as a guide for the design of a training course in problem solving.
Key Words: Heuristics, Problem-solving.
MARIANO G. HERRÁIZ GASCUEÑA
THE CONCEPTION OF DEFICIENT INFANCY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EUROPEAN
SPECIAL EDUCATION
The establishment of weak mental or mentally retarded and the appearance
of the concept of subnormal child, turn up due to the rise of schooling
and the access to School of unbiased social classes up to the moment, with
the consequent decrease of Scholastic efficiency. The conception / notion
and identification of the «Subnormal» will be the result of
Schooling and Psychopedagogy because of the constant increase of compulsory
schooling in Europe at the beginning of the XXth Century.
Key Words: Special Education, Compulsory Schooling, Performance
and profit.
