Praxis Investigativa ReDIE

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Authors: Laura Abellán Roselló

The aim of this study is to determine whether the acquisition of Emotional Ingeligence tools by students in the first cycle of Primary Education is an effective measure to reduce the characteristics of disruptive behavior in the classroom. A total of 150 students participated (55.3% girls and 44.7% boys) in the first cycle of Primary Education in three public schools located in the town of Castellón de la Plana (Spain). The age of the participants was between 6 and 8 years old (M= 91.24; DT=3.54). A quasi-experimental design of a single group with pre-test and post-test was used. To assess Emotional Inteligence, the abbreviated model of the Bar-On ICE questionnaire was used: NA (2005), and to measure the characteristics of possible disruptive behaviors the Emotional and Behavioral Problems Scale was used, validated by Andrade, Betancourt and Vallejo (2010). The intervention to improve students' emotional competencies was developed through 28 sessions about 45-minutes where emotional awareness, emotional regulation, emotional autonomy, socio-emotional skills and life skills were worked on. The results show a statistically significant increase in interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and in adaptability; a decrease in the capacity to manage stressful situations; and a decrease in thinking problems and rule breaking. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.

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Authors: Milagros Elena Rodríguez

Transcomplex views of the Critical - Anthropoetic Mathematical Education were analyzed, using as a transmetode the comprehensive hermeneutics, ecosophics and diatopics using the analytical, empirical and propositive moments, in a transmodernist project that goes to the rescue of the victims of castrating Mathematics Education. In the propositive rhizomes Critical and Anthropoetic Mathematical Education, would have the purpose of the formation of a citizen in mathematics, its culture and value; motivate individuals, strengthen their abilities, their intellectual, physical and emotional potential, develop the enormous potential that each individual holds and go to the democratization of mathematics.

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Authors: Aurora Sierra Canto, Janet Carolina Negrón Espadas, Lizbeth Paulina Padrón Ake, Dallany Trinidad Tun González y Jorge Armando Argáez Sosa

Introduction. The Bachelor of Nursing is a quality educational program accredited by the Mexican Council for Accreditation in Nursing, A.C. (COMACE), which allows young people to have, based on their income profile, an academic performance to develop solid competences in scientific knowledge and humanistic training. Objective. Analyze the relationship between the income profile (knowledge and mental abilities) and the academic performance of students in the first semester of the Nursing Degree. Method. A quantitative, transversal, analytical study was carried out. The sample was non-probabilistic for convenience, consisting of 102 students. The results of the National Entrance Examination for Higher Education (EXANI-II) were obtained, the Primary Mental Abilities Test of L.L Thurstone and T.G. Thurstone, whose reliability is 0.87. For the academic performance, the result obtained in the subjects studied and the corresponding average was considered. Analysis. The data was analyzed in Microsoft Excel 2016 and processed through the statistical package Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 for Windows. A descriptive analysis was carried out and to estimate the correlation between the variables of interest, Pearson correlation was used. Results. The four areas evaluated in the EXANI-II correlate significantly with student performance. The mental ability of verbal comprehension correlates significantly with all subjects (p <0.02). Conclusion. It is concluded that the new students entering the Bachelor of Nursing who obtained high results in the EXANI-II and who have the mental ability of verbal comprehension, are expected to have a good academic performance in the first semester of the Degree.

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Authors: Aurora Sierra Canto, Janet Carolina Negrón Espadas y Jorge Armando Argáez Sosa

Introduction. University students face an academic context of demands and challenges. For this reason they need to mobilize and strengthen the physical, psychological, cognitive, social, economic resources that students have at the beginning of their academic career. The student of the Bachelor of Nursing must develop solid skills in scientific knowledge and humanistic training. Objective. Analyze the relationship between verbal comprehension and mental abilities: spatial comprehension, reasoning, number management and verbal fluency in university students. Method. A quantitative, cross-sectional, analytical study was performed. 102 new students enrolled in the Nursing Degree participated. The sample was not probabilistic for convenience, consisting of 102 students. The results of the Primary Mental Skills Test of L.L Thurstone and T.G. Thurstone, whose reliability is 0.87. Analysis. A descriptive analysis was performed and Pearson's correlation between the study variables was estimated. In addition, the corresponding hypothesis tests were performed to assess the significance of the correlations. Results. It was found that verbal comprehension is significantly and directly related to spatial comprehension (r = 0.22, p <0.022), reasoning (r = 0.30, p = 0.002), number management (r = 0.29, p = 0.003) and verbal fluency (r = 0.19, p = 0.044). Conclusion. Due to the finding of the difficulties that students present with respect to their levels in mental abilities, the implementation of a leveling course in mental skills with emphasis on reasoning and number management is recommended.