Revista Educación y Humanismo

27-40

Authors: Ruber López, Paul Sanmartín & Fernando Méndez

This paper is a review of the Computerized Adaptive Testing Process. Unlike conventional tests, these assessments propose a test adapted to every examinee’s needs and capabilities, which results in a better experience for those assessed and a more accurate score. Adaptive assessments are based on item response theory, which defines the guidelines and conditions for such tests to be carried out. From this theory, different models that allow the repositioning of different traits of the examinees and their relationship with the probability to succeed in a given item, arise. To complete the assessment process, an adaptive test should consist of a set of items, a method which allows the selection of these and a termination criterion. All the aforementioned components articulate the test and help to properly materialize it.

58-72

Authors: Jorge Mario Olmedo Plata, Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño & María Manuela Pintor Chávez

This research presents a descriptive-explaining study about the impact of the implementation of a virtual learning object in the acquisition of basic knowledge about Wi-Fi wireless networks, carried out with eleventh grade students of an educational institution. The research adopts a quantitative method, contemplating a quasi-experimental, ex post facto, transactional design. A questionnaire was administrated to the students in a first moment to measure their basic knowledge on Wi-Fi, and the again after the implementation to analyze the changes. The quantitative data obtained from the application of the proposed instrument, were treated from a descriptive and correlation analysis. The conclusions presented the positive impact of the implementation of the virtual learning object in acquiring basic knowledge about Wi-Fi wireless networks, raising the need to control extraneous variables in the study.

83-103

Authors: Janeth Saker García

This paper outlines the development of a doctoral thesis entitled Research-based teaching practices at (schools specialized in training students to be teachers) Escuelas Normales superiores: context and Relevance of Quality and Educational Standards. This research study focuses on the research-based teaching practices as an experience that supports teaching performance in four schools in the Caribbean region of Colombia. It refers to epistemological theoretical and conceptual assumptions, procedures, methods, strategies and actions that regulate interactions, thoughts, concepts, points of view, oppositions and discourses on object training of student-teachers who carry out educational studies to further train at this type of schools “Escuelas Normales Superiores”.

122-128

Authors: Kamagate Azoumana

This article is aimed at key decision makers, database administrators, integrated software vendors as well as those people who face the challenge of analyzing large quantities of data generated by a business or an information system resource. This has been written with the assumption of a basic understanding of the covered concepts like Big Data or Data warehousing. Are not Big Data and all the technologies that are related, such as Hadoop, a new opportunity for the world of data integration and the data warehousing?