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We present a study about the explanatory power of some determinant of academic achievement in connection with the dependent variable "marks": the student's residence, family situation, previous marks, option of studies, motivation for the studies, study habits, dedication to the task, teaching conditions, satisfaction with the academic situation. The reference population has been the group of students of the Salamanca University registered from 1993 up to 2001. In total about 42.000 students' data have been used, based on a transverse-longitudinal

The aim of this essay is to study the basic structure where action-research is based on so as to get involved into school practices. There are several trends and orientations. All of them present a conception of education, a curricular design, school practice and didactic methodology. The critical action-research develops on the model of practical rationality. When this kind of rationality turns into absolute criterion we abandon other ways of reason without which -as we intend to demonstrate- it is impossible for the human being to reach his full

This article examines the evaluation procedures of postgraduate programs in a number of different countries with different political, social and economic characteristics. Four sections discuss the main goals pursued and the most frequent evaluation methodologies that have been found through the review of several researches whose main aim is to assess university postgraduate programs offered at U.S.A., Latinoamerican countries, Europe and, especially in Spain. Strengths and weaknesses of these evaluation systems are provided, and also when these

This paper examines the opera-tionalizing of perceived service quality of the instrument SERVQUAL like subtractive scale (perceptions-minus-expectations) in its application to a public and educational service as academic libraries are. The realized analysis is focused on expectations under two points of view: (1) expectations in public and educational services work like values under the preference's maximization principle and this causes a distortion in the zero breakpoint of the subtractive scale, since it would not be associated to an inflection

The Organic current Bill about Quality of Education has originated a certain political game of the word effort - in a conservative sense - when makesthis one of the arguments that justify the current educational reform. My purpose, from the nature of education and to the margin of the political changes, it is to justify the necessity of the effort like medium value to reach the last purpose of the human benings: the happiness. In this same sense, the total absence of this value impedes us, Still more in the culture of the pleasure, to reach last

20th Century has finished with some hopeful signals in the national and international context of the Philosophy of Education. A right extension of "practical philosophy" has been taking place in education. In the realm of education, there is any discipline that does not demand for it the category of"praxiología". This paper tries to show the differences between this practical approach and the one trying to maintain the Philosophy of Education. Some current and mistakes lacks are also indicated: the ethical character of practical knowledge, the

This article shows a very frequent confusion concerning the concept of toleration. It is often identified as the due respect for the opinions and behaviour of others, even though they may differ from ours. The author suggests that the authentic mind of toleration is referred to the acceptance of the "lesser evil", but stressing the notion of "lesser" rather than "evil". This attitude is unyielding to the concept of respect, whose aim is something good in itself: the human being, no matter his/her opinions or conduct. Such confusion is lethal for

This study carries out an analysis of the tacit or informal influences that teachers have on their students both trough the way they are an the way they act in the daily dynamics characteristic of ordinary teaching. It shows how, in ahidden, latent and subliminal way, in the thousand and one daily interactions, the teacher contributes strongly to the development of the basic moral personality of his students. An example of this informal moral education is given in a practical case taken from the observations of a woman mathemathics teacher during