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The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a peer tutoring program to prevent of academic failure among a sample of first year students (N = 100) from the University of Granada. After building and selecting the measurement instruments, and assigning the first year students to either experimental (N = 50) or control (N = 50) group according to the postest cuasiexperimental design employed, the intervention consisted of a 10 tutoring sessions highly structured to first year students or tutees, given by last year and postgraduate students

This study aims to ascertain the elements that constitute university students mental construct of a good teacher" and combined two qualitative techniques to do so: qualitative questionnaires in a first phase to obtain a construct structure and discussion groups afterwards to delve into the elements that emerged in the first phase. The results showed the presence of a richly detailed cognitive construct that clearly differentiated aspects related to formal competence knowledge and knowing how to do something from more personal aspects knowing how

In the actual university context, mobility is a key indicator to evaluate the quality of its institutions. The fact that students may complete part of their universities studies in another Higher Education institutions, stands not only for an enriching experience in the academic area, but also in the personal area, an essential element in educating citizens with a clear international perspective. Up till now, mobility was only possible with the student moving physically. But nowadays, with the incorporation of the information and communication technologies,

Nowadays, University needs to assess the university teaching activity in a framework where new ways of learning are being carried out. ANECA offers a model and set of that guide the activities of the university, without prejudice to the autonomy of it. Therefore, as the new settings are not being analyzed in depth, this paper makes a research proposal for assessment of university teaching in virtual learning environments, that includes four componentes: planning and content of the course, teachers activity, interaction with peers and environment.

The Working-Group" (W-G) is a strategy of organizing work based on the principles of the cooperative learning (Johnson & Johnson, 1989), effective to acquire both learning and transfer to the job in training contexts (Moreno, 2009). It was created an evaluation system for all the teacher training programs in the region of Navarre, and putting it into practice as a pilot way, emphasizing the W-G analysis. Two assessment tools were used: a satisfaction survey (173 cases) and a group self-evaluation survey (16 WG). Results showed that W-G were

In the present research, we explored the relation between the time management of university scholars and psicosocials factors, as the satisfaction, the health and the stress. A total of 164 university scholars volunteers of seven schools of Engineering in the Technical University College of Catalonia, distributed in three groups, according to different educational modalities (presential, partly semi-presential and completely semi-presencial), they answered the questionnaire ISTAS21 of psico-socials factors.The results show significant differences

The lack of candidates to take on management positions in schools is a problem yet to be resolved in Spain. This article analyses the process to access to the management of public schools in the Basque Country. Research was developed by means of a mixed design, emphasising the complementary nature of methodologies and combining quantitative and qualitative strategies in both collecting data and analysing information. The results of the research indicate that approximately half of the headmasters and headmistresses are obliged to accept the position

This paper is part of the results found during a research project carried out during the academic year 2007-2008 in a number of schools in the periphery of Granada (Spain). The paper describes the relationship between phonological competence and literacy in Year-Five children.We found that phonological competence to be a determining factor in the development of literacy skills and further academic performance, as well as the consideration of writing skills as a key element in the analyzed features: phonemegrapheme conversion, arbitrary spelling,