Mathematics constitutes a foundation in the training of engineering students because their competence in this reasoning will be utilised as a tool for the resolution of real problems when inserted in the productive sector and throughout their professional life. The purpose of this causal comparative research study was to determine the difference in learning math anxiety and math evaluation anxiety for engineering students at two universities with different cultural backgrounds. The sample included 20 engineering students from the south-eastern United States and 88 engineering students from Colombia. The English and Spanish version of the AMAS, which contained nine items was divided into two subscales, used to collect data. A series of two-way factorial ANOVAs were conducted to answer the research questions that are related to cultural background, gender and the interaction effect between cultural group and gender. The results indicated there was a statistically significant difference in learning maths anxiety when comparing the two cultures.
E-learning is currently at the center of interest in the educational community, in a situation of global pandemics that forces us to reduce attendance in all aspects of our lives. Online courses have had a bad reputation due to the distance between the tutor and the apprentice and the high dropout rates. The main purpose is to analyze the evaluations made by teachers on different features of a course, by examining variables like content, technology, activities, final work, and format. The analysis covers the 50 online courses that form part of the continuous training offer of the Regional Ministry of Education of the Community of Madrid in courses 17–18 and 18–19 in which 7501 teachers have participated. The opinion of each participant is collected from a questionnaire at the end of the training activity. This has been validated by a group of experts from the Regional Centre for Innovation and Training, belonging to the Community of Madrid, using the Delphi method. To develop the methodology, a linear multivariate model was calculated on the independent variables and the dependent variable Net Promoter Score (NPS). Most of the findings are related to two central variables in the educational approaches that occur in digital scenarios. What the group of teachers’ values most is the content of the proposal, while the factor that they consider least important is the technology that supports the development of the course. The rest of the variables analyzed have little impact on the recommendation of the courses. Nevertheless, conclusions suggest that combining factors such as content, technology, and pedagogy are essential in experiences like these.
En este artículo se presentan los resultados de una investigación descriptiva realizada con estudiantes de tercer semestre de los programas académicos de una universidad privada, cuyo objetivo consistió en describir su autorregulación para el aprendizaje. La muestra fue de 130 estudiantes escogidos con un muestreo aleatorio estratificado de una población de 370 de ellos. El instrumento utilizado fue el MSLQ (Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire) diseñado por Pintrich, Smith, García y McKeachie (1991) traducido al español. Los resultados generales indican que los estudiantes en su mayoría poseen niveles por encima de la media en sus estrategias metacognitivas, aunque se encuentran algunas diferencias por programas. En el caso del Programa de Medicina, se observa que obtiene las puntuaciones más altas en casi todas las dimensiones de autorregulación evaluadas; sin embargo, en estos estudiantes se encontraron niveles más altos de ansiedad con respecto a los otros programas.
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