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This article studies Education students attitudes towards statistics. Once analysed the technical characteristics about the instrument used, the different dimensions are explored, examining the differences up the attitudes concerning both the gender and the educational background of the subjects. On the second hand, the weaker aspects about statistics are identified, as well as the characteristics of the subjects that reached the lower marks. Measures to be adopted and educational methods these would improve the students attitudes towards this matter

The production of written texts is a constant activity in higher education. Students, staff and researchers are constantly involved in writing for different purposes. This paper presents the results of an exploratory descriptive survey of academic writing programs in public universities around the world. The main aim of the survey was to compare the existing offer in terms of a number of formal features curricular insertion, admission policy and periodicity, and constant features contents, activities, methodologies and evaluation.

The aim of this work is to analyze the differential characteristics of the students with high and low academic achievement in some variables of cognitive-motivational nature. As a rule, the results indicate that the group of high academic achievement attributes more their successes to ability and effort, it has highest learning and achievement goals, and presents a highest academic self-concept. On the contrary, the group of low academic achievement attributes more their results of success to the context; it attributes their failure results to ability

This study examines the Spanish educational production inserted in the SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index) database from 1988 to 1997. It quantifies the yearly productivity using direct data and ad hoc indexes. Then, it clasifies the references retrieved, according to educational topics, by means of content analysis. Data about educational journals and personal productivity are given. And finally, it comments findings and makes inferences which could help to improve the Spanish production in the field of educational sciences.

We celebrate the Centennial of the 500th Aniversary of the Cisneros University College in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, a prestigious University in its time. This Institution stars its activitities the 14th March 1499.Since its beginnings it became a specialized study center in humanism as a reaction to the Middle Ages. Alcalá was well known mainly for its language and biblical studies. The leading figures of this movement were its Regents and Chancellors, whose first representatives are described.

The main end of this article is to offer a critical analysis of autonomy conceived as a basic idea in modern educational philosophy. After the tragic experience and dramatic consequences of totalitarianism, is not possible to defend a kantian concept of autonomy as a unique source of moral responsibility and ethical action. After holocaust, we need to defend, on the contrary, the principle of previous value of heteronomy, conceived as the practice of otherness, in its levinasian perspective. So, the authors explore the thesis of the prior value

We have analyzed the educational performance of twenty-five professors of the University of Seville using technical as depth interview and observation. Those teachers are among the best evaluated by theirs students. In this study, we have extracted some essential characteristics on teaching for each teacher. Analysis of multiple correspondences has allowed to structure the characteristics in professional activity of professors very valued by two axes or dimensions: one axe is about trajectory and professional activity and another axe is about educational

The present article presents the principal results of a study made by using different statistical multivariate methods, principaly studies multiface-multimethod and studies of convergent validity and discriminant, in the validation of a model of Formative Evaluation of Universitary Professor core, with samples of different majors, using multiple instruments of data recruiting (Questionnaires of students, professors and major directors).