AUGUST 2012- NUMBER 3 The UEE held academic forum to celebrate its 7th anniversary. Page 8 Dr. Graciela Cordero Arroyo invited to collaborate in the INEE. Page 5 Dra. Cecilia Fierro carries out a stay at the IIDE. Page 10
Researchers and students from the IIDE participate at the International Seminar of Reading Page 7 The IIDE offers Introductory course to new students. Page 9
22 years of the creation of the IIDE.
Participa director del IIDE en convenci贸n de la APA. Page 10
Editorial
Directory:
Dr. Felipe Cuamea Velázquez Rector Dr. Óscar Roberto López Bonilla Vice-Rector Ensenada
Dr. Joaquín Caso Niebla Principal M.T.R.I. Julio César Cano Gutiérrez Principal Assistant M.C. Estrella Velasco López Administrator Dr. Lewis McAnally Salas Coordinator of Post graduate programs
L.C.C. Ana Gabriela Zaragoza Peralta Editor
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A few days ago the 22nd year of the foundation of this Institute was celebrated. At the beginning of 1989 Eduardo Backhoff Escudero and Edna Luna Serrano, inspired by the model of CISE, UNAM, proposed the creation of a Centre of Studies and Educational Development of UABC that would have as purpose to identify, explain and give answer to the issues and requirements of the educational work of this University. The proposal was presented to the rectory and it worked as the foundation to create the current Institute of Research and Educational Development (IIDE); this proposal was approved on August 24th, 1990 by the University Council. The IIDE officially began its activities in February, 1991, under the leadership of Prof. Horacio Gonzalez, based in Campus Mexicali and its academic staff distributed in Ensenada and Tijuana Campuses. After operating a year without Director, Rector Luis Llorens Baez named Prof. Eduardo Backhoff Escudero as Institute Director in August, 1993, who served ten years in this charge. Starting 2003 Dr. Graciela Cordero Arroyo served as Director of the IIDE, position that she occupied until December, 2011. 22 years after its creation the IIDE has turned into an academic unit that has national and international recognition for its orientation to the generation, application, spreading, divulgation, and transference of scientific and technological knowledge in educational matters. With the projects and activities that we develop we are not only contributing to the educational development of UABC, Baja California or the country, but also to the training of research professionals with a high level of specialization.
The recognition made by CONACYT to the quality of the Educational Master and Doctorate programs, the degree of consolidation that shows its lines of investigation and of its academic staff, the high level of habilitation and production of its academic community, the mobility and academic exchange that its researchers and students have, the participation of its researchers in several national and international academic networks, the publication of the Electronic Magazine of Educational Research (REDIE, by its Spanish initials) and its integration to the catalogue of Mexican magazines of scientific and technological research of CONACYT, as well as the relationship of the IIDE with several important institutions and organizations of public, social and private sectors, and with areas and academic units of UABC through project development, counseling, courses and educational services are part of the main achievements and activities of the academic community that we integrate as Institute. That is why we proudly celebrate the first 22 years of the creation of our dear Institute. Our appreciation to those that in some manner have contributed with their work, talent, dedication and commitment so today we get to be in a privileged place in the world of educational research.
Newness in the CIE Surviving Economic Crises through Education (2012). David R. Cole.
Multivariate Data Analysis (2010). Joseph Hair, William Black, Barry Babin y Rolph Anderson.
Android in practice (2011). Charlie Collins, Michael Galpin y Matthias K채ppler.
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News of the month The IIDE organizes a Research Colloquium for doctorate students. th
On Friday, August 24 , the fifteen students of the 2010 class from the Doctorate in Educational Sciences program presented digital: the progress and El proceso de la convergencia development of their thesis at the 2nd Research una propuesta estratégica para Colloquium in order to get feedback from the invited commentators, the IIDE academic Autores: Mayer Cabrera Flores y Arturo Serrano Santoyo. community and from their fellows. This activity let Presentación: 13 de progress abril de 2012 en Facultad works de to know both the ofla their and to Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, UABC. confirm the following of the critical way stipulated in that program. Present at this event were Drs. Mario Rueda Beltran, Luis Ongay, Maria Elena chan and Yolanda Leyva, researchers from the IIESUEUNAM, UABC, UdeG and the Instituto de Investigación en Tecnología Educativa, who exchanged points of view with the students and their thesis Directors. The IIDE Post graduate Coordination was in charge
DCE Student during his presentation.
Contreras, Norma Larrazolo, Juan C. Rodríguez y Vicente
Arámburo. Edna Luna, coordinadora. its head is Dr. of the Colloquium's organization, Lewis McAnally. Presentación: 13 de abril de 2012 en instalaciones del IIDE.
Student from the Universidad Iberoamericana Campus Leon carries out a research stay at the IIDE. During the first week of August Marisela Juarez Herrera, student of the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education from the Universidad Iberoamericana Campus Leon (UIA-Leon), concluded a research stay at the headquarters of the IIDE. After being working for a week a the Educational Assessment Unit (UEE), Prof. Juarez had the chance to learn in detail the theoretical, methodological and analytical implications associated with the design, development and validation of the measurement instruments in educational contexts. This research stay will allow her to document the associated process with an instrument oriented to the measurement of academic coexistence in higher education students in the state of Guanajuato, as part of the committed purposes in her doctoral thesis. This research happened in the context of the works developed by the Latin 4
Marisela Juárez Herrera.
American Network of Academic Coexistence, project in which Dr. Cecilia Fierro Evans, researcher from the UIA and Drs. Alicia Chaparro Caso Lopez and Joaquin Caso Niebla, researchers from the IIDE, participated; the next month this project will be formalized in the signing of a collaboration agreement that considers other activities and the participation of other researchers and students from both institutions.
Dr. Graciela Cordero Arroyo invited to collaborate in the INEE. A few days after the Instituto Nacional para la Evaluaci贸n de la Educaci贸n (INEE) was decreed independent from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), last August 16th was made official El proceso de laof convergencia digital:that will be the designation the scholars responsible of its new administration. Among the names of the distinguish academics that will have this responsibility features Dr. Graciela Cordero Arroyo, researcher from the IIDE (UABC), who was named member of the Technical Counsel of the INEE. Dr. Cordero among other Drs. Maria Ibarrola Nocolin (IPN), Lucrecia Santiba帽ez Rand (CIDE) and Margarita Zorrilla Fierro (Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes), and its President, Dr. Mario Rueda Beltran (UNAM), will have as duty to consolidate the INEE as a lead entity of the national system of the compulsory education evaluation, supervising the development and integration of learning evaluations and teaching performance, the divulgation of its results, and the creation of a national system of educational
Dr. Graciela Cordero collaborate in the INEE.
Aportaciones de la investigaci贸n a la
indicators. Dr. Cordero Arroyo, researcher from the UABC since 14 years now, has a B.A. in Pedagogy from UNAM, is a Professor in Education from Harvard University and PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences from the Universidad de Barcelona. Her contribution to the creation and appliance of the knowledge in the assessment area and the teachers training have brought the recognition to the track record of this distinguish student at a national and international level, among other distinctions, her enrollment and stay in the National System of Researchers since 1999 till today.
New Master class receives orientation courses. During the days 29th, 30th, and 31st of August, the Post graduates Coordination of the IIDE offered an orientation course to the new class of the Master in Educational Sciences. The course had as goal to provide information about the institutional services and supports, the study program structure, the couching process for the fulfillment of the program's critical route, as well as several aspects of academic-administrative nature related to it.
Dr. McAnally during course first session .
Institute. Classes are planned to be started on Monday September 3rd.
In addition to Dr. McAnally's participation, coordinator of the Institute's post graduate program, the course counted also with the participations of Dr. Joaquin Caso Niebla and Prof. Julio Cesar Cano, the IIDE's Principal and VicePrincipal, as well as Ing. Neftali Gomez, who is responsible for the technical support of the 5
Investigador del IIDE participa en libro conmemorativo del INEE. Como parte de los festejos del X Aniversario del Instituto Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación, recientemente se presentó en la Ciudad de México el libro titulado “INEE: una década de evaluación, 2002-2012”, mismo que contó con la participación del Dr. Eduardo Backhoff Escudero, investigador del IIDE. Este libro cuenta con una serie de capítulos en el que participan académicos, autoridades educativas y especialistas en evaluación educativa entre los que destacan los nombres de Sylvia Schmelkes, Carlos Muñoz Izquierdo, Arturo de la Orden, Manuel Gil Antón, Gilberto Guevara Niebla, Felipe Tirado, Alejandro Tiana, Margarita Zorrilla y Felipe Martínez Rizo, entre otros. La participación del Dr. Backhoff se orienta a describir el papel que ha jugado y los retos que ha enfrentado el INEE en la evaluación del logro educativo del sistema educativo nacional. El Dr. Backhoff fue director de Pruebas y Medición de dicho
Commemorative book cover.
UNA DÉCADA DE EVALUACIÓN
Instituto en el periodo 2004-2008. El libro en su versión extensa se encuentra disponible en http://www.inee.edu.mx/images/aniversario2012/i nforme%20anual.pdf
Participa director del IIDE en reunión de presidentes de asociaciones de psicología en la convención de la APA. El Dr. Joaquín Caso Niebla, investigador del IIDE y presidente de la Sociedad Mexicana de Psicología (SMP), participó como invitado especial en la Convención Anual de la American Psychological Association (APA) que tuvo lugar en Orlando, Florida, los días 2, 3 y 4 de agosto de 2012. La Convención Anual de la American Psychological Association es una de las reuniones de psicología más importantes a nivel mundial, congregando a más de 12,000 profesionales y estudiantes de todas las áreas de la psicología. Entre las actividades realizadas por el Dr. Caso en el marco de esta convención destacan su participación al International Scholars Breakfast organizado por la División 17 Society of Counseling Psychology de la APA y una reunión de trabajo con los presidentes de las Asociaciones internacionales en que se discutieron los principales retos y desafíos en 6
Dr. Joaquín Caso during his participation.
torno a la psicología que enfrentan en sus respectivos países. También participó en una reunión privada con directivos de la APA entre los que se encontraban la Presidenta de la APA, Dra. Suzanne Bennett Johnson, el CEO de la APA, Dr. Norman Anderson, el Deputy CEO, Dr. Michael Honaker y la Dra. Merry Bullock, Jefa de la oficina de Asuntos Internacionales de este organismo. En dicha reunión se revisaron los avances re g i st ra d o s e n to r n o a l a s a c t i v i d a d e s comprometidas en el marco del Memorandum of Understanding que firmaron ambas asociaciones en la convención de 2011, realizada en Washington, D.C.
Researchers and students from the IIDE participate at the International Seminar of Reading. Recently Dr. Guadalupe Lopez Bonilla participated in the general academic coordination of the 3rd International Seminar Dr. Guadalupe López during of Reading at the University, 2nd National the inauguration. Conference of Written Culture Expressions in High and Higher Education Institutions, and the 4th International Seminar of Written Culture It is important to mention that in this event the and Social Actors, at the Instituto Tecnológico Network of Written Culture and Discursive Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). Communities were formalized from which UABC is In this event three workshops were developed, part through the Academic Board of Discourse, working groups, and lectures, activities in Identity and Educational Practices, integrated by Drs. which Dr. Carmen Perez Fragoso, researcher Guadalupe Tinajero Villavicencio, Carmen Perez from the IIDE, Noe Canseco Ramirez and Tania Fragoso and Guadalupe Lopez Bonilla. In this network Zavala Martinez, Master students, and Maria are also participating the Universidad Autónoma de Luz Anguiano Lopez Paliza, Rosaura Guerrero Tamaulipas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Molina and Jesus Caos Huerta Rodriguez, Puebla, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, former students, participated. During the events, book presentations were Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Consejo Puebla de made, remarking the one presented by DanielIIDE. Lectura, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Cassany, “Discursos e identidades en contextos Electronica, and the ITAM. de cambio educativo” co authored with Drs. Guadalupe Lopez Bonilla and Carmen Perez Fragoso.
Presence of the IIDE in State Forums. Last August 23rd and 24th in the city of Tijuana, the forum “Oferta Tecnologica y oportunidades de negocio en BC” was held, event to which M.Sc. Mayer Rainiero Cabrera Flores, academic from the IIDE, attended. This forum had as purpose to establish cooperation mechanisms between the UABC and the business and governmental sectors, showing to the possible users of the productive sector the capacity of research and knowledge that academics from this University have, which is reflected in the development of projects with possibilities of create technological transfer. Discussion spaces were offered at the forum, where was recognized the need to create a technological transfer office that would allow the UABC and its academic units to create value from research projects, supported by liaison actions with the productive sector, without prejudice to the actions that guarantee the protection of intellectual property.
M.T.I.C. Mayer Cabrera during presentation.
At the same time, on August 24th was held the forum titled “Ensenada rumbo a la innovación: retos y perspectivas”, to which Prof. Cabrera attended as an invited speaker. The event had as purpose to discuss the relevance of the innovation as a detonator of regional development. Students, academics and colleges authorities, as well as representatives from business and governmental sectors, and other higher educational institutions, attended this event.
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The UEE held academic forum to celebrate its 7th anniversary. On the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the UEE the forum “Contribucion de la UEE al desarrollo de una nueva cultura evaluative en Baja California” was held. The UEE is a dependent part of the IIDE (UABC), which functions with the support of the State Educational System and with the accompanying and technical counseling of the Instituto Nacional para la Evaluacion de la Educacion (INEE). The welcome ceremony was presided by Dr. Oscar Lopez Bonilla, UABC Vice-Rector, Ensenada; B.A. Marco Antonio Esponda Gaxiola, Sub-Secretary of High Education, Teaching Training and Evaluation; Dr. Joaquin Caso Niebla, Principal of the IIDE; B.A. Alvaro Mayoral Miranda, Sub-Secretary of Basic Education; and Dr. Alicia Chaparro Caso Lopez, coordinator of the UEE. The welcoming words and the statement of reasons were given by Dr. Joaquin Caso who highlighted the need of these types of college liaison models that would allow to complete the knowledge generation-appliance-transfer cycle, and that in this case have as addressee the improvement of the educational practices in Baja California.
Presidium members during the inauguration.
During these days a series of conferences that illustrate the type of UEE contributions to the Baja California society were presented. The topics of the conferences included the presentations “Background and creation of the UEE”, the “Civic Education Evaluation in Baja California”, “Integrated Evaluative Strategy: factors associated with Spanish and Mathematics learning”, and “Challenges, Defiance and Perspectives of the UEE”, conferences directed by Drs. Luis angel Contreras, Graciela Cordero, Alicia Chaparro, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, and B.A. Juan Galvez. In their participations, the sub-secretaries of Education recognized the contribution made by the UABC to the development and reinforcement of an evaluation culture in the entity. In this academic act the contribution made by Dr. Graciela Cordero Arroyo and Luis Angel Contreras Niño, to the creation, development and consolidation of the evaluative project was also recognized.
The IIDE offers academic counseling for the platform use. In past days Dr. Lewis McAnally Salas taught several consults to professors from the Marine Sciences Faculty about the uses of the Sistema de Aulas platform. The Sistema de Aulas is a free tool from UABC that supports the teaching activity by giving technological resources that make easier the register, following and evaluation of tasks, the dosage of the educational program, the class' organization, among other activities involved in the teaching-learning process. The Sistema de Aulas is an additional tool to those already existing at the University that wins adherents and sympathy among teachers for 25 y 26 de junio | 8
Platform for online courses.
being an easy-to-use tool, flexible and with free access. Those who are interested in knowing widely the benefits of this tool, please write to mcanally@uabc.edu.mx.
The IIDE offers Introductory course to new students. As part of the activities scheduled for incoming students of the Master in Educational Sciences, last August 6th and 7th the course “Introduction to measurement and development of tests� was offered, taught by Dr. Coral Gonzalez Barbera, professor of the Education Faculty from the Complutense University of Madrid. The course had as objective to involve the new members of the Master in the topic of measurement, revising the tests' theories as well as the diverse concepts and procedures related to the obtaining of validity evidences and reliability.
Dr. Coral GonzĂĄlez.
Research Methods and Diagnosis on Education in that Institution and collaborates with the IIDE in several projects since 2009 till today.
Dr. Gonzalez Barbera is a PhD in Education from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research line is focused on the low academic performance, the measurement of education and on the evaluation of educational systems. Nowadays she is working for the Division of
Master and Doctorate's students participate at several international forums. During the months of July and August students from the program of the Educational Sciences Doctorate from the IIDE participated in mobility and academic exchange activities in an international level. First, Juan Carlos Perez Moran carried out a research at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) and at the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UdiMa) from June 20th to July 12th, 2012. During that stay he shared different counseling spaces and participated in research seminars conducted by Drs. Vicente Ponsoda, a Methodology of Behavior Sciences academic, Psychology Faculty from the UAM and member of the research group Models and Psychometrical Appliances; Carmen Garcia, the Methodology of Behavior Sciences head teacher from UAM; and Sonia Romero, Methodology professor in the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid. That stay allowed him to consolidate methodological aspects of his doctoral thesis by
Institute members accompanying other speakers.
receiving specific training in the management of software for statistical procedures such as R, Ox, and Matlab, as well as the denominated integral analysis using the LLTM; LSDM and DINA models.
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Dr. Cecilia Fierro carries out a stay at the IIDE. On past days the IIDE had the visit of Dr. Cecilia Fierro Evans, researcher from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) Campus Leon. During her stay, Dr. Fierro participated in a series of activities related to a research project oriented to the characterization of academic coexistence in high school education in Baja California, Guanajuato, Jalisco and Michoacan, project in which the UABC, the UIA, the ITESO and the Universidad Michocana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo are participating. The activities were grouped in three sessions, a theoretical, a technical and an analytic, that allowed documenting the obtaining, processing and analysis of the information committed in one of the stages of this project. During her stay, Dr. Fierro also offered the conference “Schools promoting learning and inclusive coexistence: How do they do it?” in the framework of the Educational Research Seminar.
Dr. Cecilia Fierro Evans.
Dr. Fierro has a B.A. in Pedagogy from the Universidad Panamericana and in Religious Sciences from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico, City. She has studies of Master in Research and Education Development from the same University and studies in PhD in Sciences with a specialty on Educational Researches from the DIE-CINVESTAV-IPN. She is member of the National System of Researchers. She chairs today the Latina American Network of Academic Coexistence.
The IIDE's faculty staff participates at a Teaching meeting. Last Thursday, August 30th a work meeting was held counting with the participation of the IIDE's academic community. During the session several aspects related to the enrollment process and induction of students of the Master in Educational Sciences class 2012, were revised and discussed, also the criteria for the assignment of scholarships for post graduate students, the functioning of the Educational Research Seminar and the following of MCE students class 2012, and class 2007 and 2010 of the Doctorate in Educational Sciences.
Academic community during meeting.
student mobility with PIFI resources, the staff planning 2013 and the criteria to enroll in elective courses, will be revised and discussed. The work session lasted 5 hours.
In subsequent meetings topics such as criteria for the assignment of Honorary mention, the critical route proposed in the post graduate programs,
Others activities
September 3th| Start of the MCE courses.
3th to September 7th| UABC educational model and registration process to the MCE.
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September 18th | Educational Research Seminar: Dr. Moisés Perales Escudero, UQROO.
Electronic magazines The theoretical knowledge revealing the magnitude of research production in the Education field increases day by day, which is why it is essential to have resources that allow consulting articles in specialized magazines. The following is a series of links offering information related to educational research: Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educaci贸n (IISUE): www.iisue.unam.mx Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO): www.scielo.br Psicothema: http://www.psicothema.es Revista de Investigaci贸n en Evaluaci贸n Educativa: http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE Universitas Psychologica: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co Revista de Evaluaci贸n Educativa: revalue.mx
September 19th | Educational Research Seminar: Dr. Pedro Canto Herrera, UADY.
5th and November 6th | International Forum of Educational Evaluation.
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The IIDE'S recent numbers Encuentro de la Universidad con el barrio: conocimiento, aprendizaje, servicio y desarrollo comunitario. Autor: Lucía Coral Aguirre Muñoz.
IIDE’S Agenda National and International Coming Conferences Buenos Aires, Argentina, del 4 y 5 de octubre de 2012. Primer encuentro de la Red Iberoamericana para el desarrollo de una plataforma tecnológica de soporte a la evaluación de los procesos de formación.
Santiago de Compostela, España, del 6al 8 de febrero de 2013. Conocimiento, Tecnologías y Enseñanza.
Campeche, Campeche, del 17 al 19 de octubre de 2012. XX Congreso Mexicano de Psicología.
Lima, Perú, del 5 al 8 de marzo de 2013. IV Coloquio Internacional de la RIIED “La evaluación de la docencia en Iberoamérica: avances, perspectivas e innovación.”
Santiago, Chile, del 3 al 6 de enero de 2013. The 26th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement. “Educational Systems for School Effectiveness and Improvement: Exploring the Alternatives.”
Madrid, España, del 3 al 5 de julio de 2013. III Congreso Internacional de Etnografía y Educación.