Browsing by Subject "Estados Unidos"
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Las acciones afirmativas en educación superior : el caso de los Estados Unidos
(Universidad de La Sabana, 2009-08)Analiza la importancia y la evolución políticas de las acciones afirmativas en la educación superior en Estados Unidos. Se acoge esta experiencia porque ha influido en algunos países interesados en proporcionar, a los ... -
Agent-based Simulation Models of the College Sorting Process
(Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2014)We explore how dynamic processes related to socioeconomic inequality operate to sort students into, and create stratification among, colleges. We use an agent-based model to simulate a stylized version of this sorting ... -
Arquitectura institucional para la mejora escolar : ¿Cómo mejoran los sistemas educativos?, ¿Qué rol pueden cumplir las estructuras de gestión de la educación en el aseguramiento de procesos de mejora continua a nivel sistémico?
(BID, 2016-02)Para mejorar la calidad de la educación, varios países de América Latina y el Caribe están implementando reformas institucionales que modifican las responsabilidades de los diversos niveles de gestión de la educación (nacional, ... -
Boletín CNE Opina N° 22 : acreditación de la Educación Superior en los EEUU : lecciones aprendidas para la implementación del SINEACE
(PEConsejo Nacional de Educación, 2009)La investigadora en aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior, Liz Reisberg, Ph.D. del Center for International Higher Education de Boston College, estuvo en el Consejo Nacional de Educación (CNE), gracias al ... -
Can Evaluating Teachers Improve Teacher Effectiveness? : IMPACT Evaluations in Washington, DC
(PREAL, 2014-06)Research shows that effective teachers can have a profound impact on student success both inside and outside of the classroom. At the same time, poor teaching holds students back, with deficits that compound over time. So ... -
Computers and Productivity : Evidence from Laptop Use in the College Classroom
(Elsevier, 2017-03)This paper evaluates the effect of classroom computer use on academic performance. Using a quasi-experimental design and administrative data, we find that computer use in college classrooms has a negative impact on course ... -
Conexión intrínseca entre la pragmática y la gramática
(PUCP, 2015)Estudios sugieren que la gramática es un prerrequisito a la adquisición pragmática en la Lengua 2 o segunda lengua/lengua extranjera (L2), aunque una alta competencia gramatical no garantice una alta competencia pragmática. ... -
Does Management Matter in Schools
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014-11)The paper collects data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated ... -
Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(The World Bank, 2006-03)There is considerable evidence that young children in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in nutrition, health, fine and gross motor skills, cognitive development, and socio-emotional development. ... -
Educación basada en competencias en línea : Lecciones de EE.UU. para América Latina
(Diálogo Interamericano, 2016-03)Hay una creciente preocupación en los Estados Unidos y América Latina por mejorar la relevancia de la educación superior y mantener los costos bajo control. Esta realidad ha llevado a países del hemisferio a experimentar ... -
Evaluation of the Enhancing Education Through Technology Program : Final Report
(U.S. Department of Education. Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. Policy and Program Studies Service, 2009)The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive information about educational technology practices related to the core objectives of the U.S. Department of Education’s Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) ... -
Exploring Constructivist Perspectives in the College Classroom
(SAGE, 2015-07)The study used Explanatory Sequential Design (ESD) of Mixed-Methods to investigate college students’ and instructors’ perspectives of constructivist learning environment (CLE). Students, including graduates and undergraduates ... -
La financiación de la educación en Estados Unidos : análisis de la inversión en educación y su relación con el rendimiento académico
(FahrenHouse, 2013)La importancia que se concede a la educación como base para el crecimiento económico, ha generado, en Estados Unidos, una gran preocupación por la mejora de la calidad del sistema educativo. Este interés se desprende tanto ... -
La formación del profesorado en Estados Unidos. Iniciativas orientadas a la mejora educativa
(FahrenHouse, 2013)En la última década, se han incrementado las investigaciones e informes internacionales referidos al profesorado. La acumulación de estudios y evidencia empírica ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia que el desempeño de ... -
Global Teacher Status Index 2018
(Varkey Foundation, 2018)This Global Teacher Status Index survey in 2018 (GTSI 2018) went to 35 countries (instead of 21 countries as in 2013) and administered a questionnaire to over 1,000 members of the public in each country. Specifically, they ... -
Household Education Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean : Evidence from Income and Expenditure Surveys
(BID, 2017-03)This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries and the United States. Bahamas, Chile and Mexico have the highest ... -
Housing Costs, Zoning, and Access to High-Scoring Schools
(Brookings Institution, 2012-04)Huge inequalities in educational attainment persist across income and racial/ethnic groups. Blacks aged 25 and older are twice as likely, and Hispanics four times as likely, as whites to have not completed high school. ... -
How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
(Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo, 2017)Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world’s population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but ... -
Measuring Educational Productivity in Standards-Based Accountability Systems
(OECD, 2005-12)For many years the school system in the United States has measured success by the number of dollars spent, computers and textbooks purchased, and programs created. Moreover, the measures of success have not focused on ... -
¿Mejoran las evaluaciones la eficacia docente? El sistema IMPACT en Washington, DC
(PREAL, 2014-06)Los estudios demuestran que los profesores eficaces pueden tener un impacto profundo sobre el éxito de sus estudiantes dentro y fuera de la sala de clases. Al mismo tiempo, una docencia inadecuada limita a los estudiantes ...