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MAY 2012- NUMBER 1

Dr. Javier Organista presents his latest research

The IIDE's participation at the Latin-American Network of Academic Coexistence.

The IIDE coordinates the translation and adaptation of tests for evaluate learning in Mayan language.

First number of REDIE 2012 published by the IIDE.

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The IIDE researches literacy practices at cybercafés

The IIDE starts selection process for admission to Masters.Page 8

Participation of the IIDE in the Teacher's training and updating from the Educational

System of Baja California.

The Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo (IIDE) is one of the eight institutes

from UABC dedicated to the training of researchers. Its original conception was

oriented based on the idea of having a research center that would help to identify,

explain and find answers to the educational practice phenomena.

Almost 22 years from its creation, the IIDE has been consolidated as an academic space

that carries out research in the educational field and trains research professionals in a

post graduate level, which has gained it a national and international recognition due to

its contribution to the academic development of UABC, Baja California State and the

country.

As part of the general reflection of the IIDE scholars we have identified the need of

having mechanisms that allow us to spread the IIDE's projects, programs and activities,

in order to give a wider visibility to the work we develop as scholars, students and the

academic community whit which we are related to.

IIDENTIDAD comes to life from this context. We hope that both the design and the

content suit you and that the monthly publication would allow us to inform the

community about the dynamic, nature and scopes of the activity generated from our

Institute.

Editorial

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Directorio:

Dr. Felipe Cuamea VelázquezRector

Dr. Óscar López BonillaVice-Rector

Dr. Joaquín Caso NieblaPrincipal

M.T.R.I. Julio César Cano GutiérrezAssistant Principal

M.C. Estrella Velasco LópezAdministrator

L.C.C. Ana Gabriela Zaragoza PeraltaEditor

How many university students have a cell phone? How many

of those are Smartphones? What are they used for? These

are just a few questions that guided the development of the

formulation of this research, which has as purpose to

explore the type of mobile technology that students and

teachers from UABC Ensenada (both campus) have, and to

characterize the type of applications used and the

educational use given to them. This research began in

January 2011 under the coordination of Dr. Javier Organista

Sandoval, in the framework of the research parameters

designed by the Digital Technology in Education Academic

Board. Sandra Macias and Cesar Leon, both students of the that a study is applied to both UABC Ensenada campus, master participate in the project along with Patricio

Henriquez, a doctorate student. The project is financed by therefore in the next days the results will be presented to the ththe 15 internal call of UABC. Principals of those Academic Units.

Some preliminary outcomes show that the majority of the Javier Organista Sandoval has a PhD in Educational Sciences, student community counts with some type of cell phone graduated from the IIDE, researcher of the Digital device and has a computer and access to the internet at Technology in Education Academic Board and teacher of the home. These results have been shown in three national and Educational Sciences Master and Doctorate programs of this international conferences and the publication of a couple of Institute. articles in two international magazines is expected. Recently

Patricio Henriquez Ritchie, student of the doctorate,

presented a lecture in Valencia, Spain with the preliminary

outcomes of this research.

Nowadays, patrons of educational uses are being identified

to precise a typology of use that explains the pedagogical

potential that Smartphones could have. It is important to

highlight that this is the first study of its kind, is the first time

Participation of the IIDE in the Teacher's training and updating from the Educational System of

Baja California.

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Project of the month

Dr. Javier Organista, researcher

from the IIDE.

Newness in the CIE

Beginning Android 4(2011). Grant Allen.

iOS 5 Programing. Pushing the limits(2012). Rob Naiper & Mugunth.

Psicometría aplicada (2011). María Luisa Morales.

thAs part of the 13 celebration of the International Book Fair

UABC (FIL, by its Spanish initials), the past month of April in

the headquarters of the IIDE the book “Aportaciones de la

investigación a la evaluación de estudiantes y docentes”

coordinated by Dr. Edna Luna Serrano, was presented. This

book presents a group of researches made by members of

the Academic Board “Educational Evaluation” of this

Institute, in which researchers from the Complutense

University of Madrid, the University of Valencia, the

University of Murcia, the INEE and the UNAM also

participated. The presentation was directed by Drs.

Eduardo Backhoff Escudero, Joaquín Caso Niebla, Luis

Ángel Contreras Niño, Norma Larrazolo Reyna, Juan Carlos

Rodríguez Macías, Edna Luna Serrano, Vicente Arámburo

Vizcarra and Prof. Martín Rosas Morales.

Presentation of the book “Aportaciones de la investigación a la evaluación de estudiantes y

docentes”.

The past month of March the social service workshop was

concluded with success, this seminar included several talks

to parents of children studying in “Pablo Montesinos”

Kinder garden, with topics related to social, affective and

cognitive development of their kids. The program was

coordinated by Maria de los Angeles Garcia Vera, from the

Sociology B.A. at the School of Administrative and Social

Sciences of UABC, under the direction of Dr. Lucia Coral

Aguirre Muñoz, IIDE researcher.

The presence of the IIDE in the community through the social service program.

During the next weeks the group of researchers responsible

for the test “Examen de Habilidades y Conocimientos

Básicos (EXHCOBA)” is going to put together the pilot of a

new version that will let to support the process of

enrollment in high school and university in this state and

other academic institutions in the country. The new version

will set aside the multiple option questions and will give

place to a new generation of questions that request the

students to create their own answers based on the given

information. All this according to what Dr. Norma Larrazolo

Reyna, coordinator of the program, expressed.

News of the month

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The IIDE prepares a new version of the EXHCOBA test.

The pilot step, directed by Prof. Martin Rosas Morales and

B.A. Victor Bonilla Carnalla, involves the application of a

significant number of students of the entities of Chihuahua,

Queretaro, Guanajuato, Sonora y Aguascalientes. Once this

step is finished the data will be analyzed and the required

adjustments will be done in order to start prepping its

application in all those academic institutions of the country

with which collaboration agreements exist.

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th th thOn April 17 , 18 and 19 Drs. Luis Angel Contreras Niño,

Eduardo Backhoff Escudero and Joaquin Caso Niebla, st

researchers from the IIDE, participated as speakers at the 1

Forum of Psychology coordinated by the Faculty of

Administrative and Social Sciences of UABC. The topics of

their presentations were “Research on Psychology”, “How

to evaluate competences of preschoolers” and “Challenges

and perspective of Mexican Psychology”. A common

element present in the lectures was to remark the

importance that psychological research has in academic

contexts in order to stimulate interest for this area of

knowledge in new generations of psychology professionals.

The IIDE at the First Forum of Psychology held by UABC.

The Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa (REDIE,

by its Spanish initials) published its most recent number

(volume 14, number 1) which includes 12 articles and a

review; among them are to emphasize the following titles:

“Empirical Research on training evaluation impact.

Literature Review", "Debates and perspectives on

University autonomy" and "Quantitative significance of

fractions for Mexican students on elementary school”. We

particularly recommend consulting the article

“Classification of new community college students, based

on variables of academic performance, use of digital

technology and parents education”, created by Drs. Javier

Organista Sandoval and Lewis McAnally Salas and Prof.

Patricio Henriquez Ritchie, a doctorate student . The

extended versions of the articles are on REDIE website

( )http://redie.uabc.mx

First number of REDIE 2012 published by the IIDE.

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The FIL at IIDE.

In order to the academic programs to be closer to the

community, last March 12th the IIDE participated at the

13th Quality Postgraduates Fair 2012, organized by

CONACYT, in which the Master and Doctorate in

Educational Sciences programs were spread. The IIDE's

participation was carried out by Drs. Lewis McAnally Salas

and Lucía Aguirre Muñoz, as well as B.A. Marily Meza

Luque who was responsible for the attention to those

interested in the enrollment requirements and general

characteristics of the programs.

The IIDE at the 13th Postgraduates Fair.

CONACYT’s Postgraduates Fair.

Last Friday March 23rd was inaugurated the exhibition

“Foco de infeccion” at the IIDE's headquarters. The

exhibition consists of a sculpture and a photographic series;

it represents a “critic to the society's lifestyle”, commented

Ivan Antonio Vazquez Manjarrez, student of the School of

Arts in Tijuana, creator of the installation work. The work

will be integrated by a central piece symbolizing a drug

seller and 365 moths that have in their wings maps of the

colonies and residential developments of Tijuana, which Ensenada, Dr. David Rodriguez de la Peña, and the Principal represents the current situation of the country regarding of the School of Gastronomy and Enology, Prof. Abraham drug trafficking, the artist explained. During the exhibition Gomez Gutierrez. the Ensamble de Alientos of the School of Arts UABC

interpreted pieces of the compositor Edward Grieg. The

opening was presided by the Vice-Rector of UABC

Ensenada, Dr. Oscar Lopez Bonilla, the IIDE's Principal Dr.

Joaquin Caso Niebla; Assistant Director of the School of Arts

Artistic exhibition inaugurated at the IIDE.

Cultural activities at IIDE.

In the context of the activities programmed at the IIDE by

the International Book Fair UABC for the month of May, and

having as commentator Dr. Eduado Backhoff Escudero, the

book Development and assessment of online lections for

the teaching of statistics based on constructivism and

learning objects, authorship of Dr. Javier Organista

Dr. Javier Organista's book presented at “The FIL continues in May”.

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Sandoval, was presented. This research, as an outcome of held at the headquarters of the IIDE as part of the FIL in May.

the Dr. Organista doctoral thesis, analyzes the feasibility

and relevance of innovating academic processes through

the incorporation of web technological tools, remarking

the need of promoting innovation and academic

developments with the support of digital technology.

Attending the event were students, teachers and

researchers of Campus Ensenada, to whom a copy of the

book was given finishing the event. The presentation was

On March 28th and 29th in the City of New York, Dr.

Eduardo Backhoff Escudero participated as a panelist in the

Forum of Educational Assessment, accountability and

Equity, organized by the University of Columbia and the

Educational Testing Service (ETS), initiator institution,

among other products, the TOEFL test. Dr. Backhoff, the

only Latin American speaker at this Forum, is a specialist on

the development and validation of large-scale tests, reason

for what he was invited to the forum. The conferences of

the participants will be shortly published in a book.

Dr. Eduardo Backhoff participates in the Evaluation Forum at the University of Columbia.

International presence of IIDE.

Weeks ago, at the headquarters of the Instituto Nacional

para la Evaluación de la Educación (INEE), in Mexico City,

the progress of the translation and adaptation of the pre

school EXCALE tests in Mayan language was presented. In

this project are participating as coordinator Dr. Eduardo

Backhoff Escudero and as collaborator Dr. Luis Angel

Contreras Niño (IIDE), and also as collaborator Dr.

Guillermo Solano Flores (University of Colorado). The integrated by learning evaluation specialists from several purpose of this project, an unprecedented experience in institutions, among which the following stand out the Mexico, is to translate and to adapt the tests applied by the Iberoamerican University, the Western Institute of INEE to pre school students, with support of specialists, Technology and Higher Education, the Secretariat of Public teachers and Mayan-speaking translators in order to Education, the Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los release methodological recommendations that would Adultos and the INEE itself.guide the design and development of tests oriented to

evaluate learning in different educational levels and in

diverse indigenous communities.

The preliminary progress and outcomes of this study were

presented to the coordinator Committee of this project,

The IIDE coordinates the translation and adaptation of tests for evaluate learning in

Mayan language.

Development new research project.

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25 y 26 de junio |

Others activitiesAugust 10th | June 19th |

Recently researchers from the Educational Assessment

Unit (UEE by its Spanish initials) offered a workshop at the

Universidad Iberoamericana Campus Leon (UIA by its

Spanish initials) in order to put together the works of the

Latin-American Network of Academic Coexistence, carrying

out this year the design and development of an instrument

–test- for the categorization of the democratic coexistence

practices, inclusion and pacific coexistence in the middle

school education of the country. On this matter, Dr. Alicia be responsible for the applying, obtaining and documenting Chaparro Caso Lopez, coordinator of the UEE, informed of the psychometric properties of the tests. that in this project participate, besides UIA and UABC itself,

academics from ITESO and the Universidad La Salle. These

institutions will be responsible for the application of that

test to students from Guanajuato, Jalisco and Baja

California. In the particular case of our entity, the UEE will

The IIDE's participation at the Latin-American Network of Academic Coexistence.

Conformation of a new Network.

As part of the selection process for admission to the Master

in Educational Sciences offered by the IIDE, UABC, this thWednesday May 16 was applied the knowledge test,

th thwhich was requested by 42 candidates. On the 17 and 18

the following interviews were made by researches from the

IIDE, who will also play the roll of tutors during the Masters

development.

The test evaluates basic knowledge required to course the

Master, in the interview is aimed to visualize the qualitative Results will be published in June on the IIDE's website

aspects that influence the students performance during http://iide.ens.uabc.mx/blogs/iide/.

the studying process.

The call was made months ago in local media and the IIDE's

webpage, to which the response was positive since 42

people were registered, however, due to the custom

attention offer to its students, only 25 applications will be

accepted.

The IIDE starts selection process for admission to Masters.

MCE’s call 2012.

Publication of results for admission to the MCE.

Forum “Contribucion de la UEE al desarrollo de una nueva cultura evaluative en Baja California” and 7th anniversary of the UEE.

The “Discourse, Identity and Educational Practices”

Academic Board, of which Drs. Guadalupe Lopez Bonilla,

Carmen Perez Fragoso and Guadalupe Tinajero

Villavicencio are members, it is developing the first phase

of the new ethnographic type project that will allow to

investigate the literacy practices and vernacular literacy

made by the youth at cybercafés. In the three years of this

project it will be a supervision of the activities developed

by 5 women and 5 men among 15 and 18 years old at waiting to start the ethnography and the 100 planned

cybercafés. As well it will be analyzed the roll of the interviews. The results will be presented in several articles

person responsible for the establishment since in the first according to the research. At the end the development of

rounds made to identify the places the importance of this a book that documents what happens is planned.

person has been noticed.

This research is based on a previous project that

documented the high school students' activities in some

classes during a generation. The firm of the agreement

with CONACYT –which will fund the research-, is still in

The IIDE researches literacy practices at cybercafés

Development of new research project.

Eduardo Mariscal and Martin Alonso Mercado, students

of the master in Educational Sciences concluded a

research stay at the Philosophy and Educational Sciences

Faculty at the University of the Basque Country, under the

tutorship of Dr. Luis Lizasoain Hernandez, professor at that

institution and member of the Liaison Council of the IIDE.

Their stay allowed them to advance in the analysis of data

as well to enrich the theoretical and conceptual

references committed in their thesis work. Dr. Lizasoain

participates in an active way in diverse academic activities

with the IIDE, collaboration that has grown stronger since

the research stay carried out in 2011 at the Educational

Assessment Unit (UEE).

Students of the master spend a period of time in the Basque Country.

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Dr. LuisLizasoain

August 24th | From September 3th to 7th |

September 17th |

Colloquium for doctorate students and 22th anniversary of the IIDE.

Application process for admission to the MCE.

Start courses for MCE.

stLast May 21 the series of “Curricular and Social relevant

Topics” offered by the Educational System of Baja California

(SEEBC, by its Spanish initials) taught to the technical

pedagogical counselors of the entity was concluded, with the

participation of the Educational Assessment Unit researchers

(UEE, by its Spanish initials) that coordinated the analysis entity using, among other inputs, a notebook of

process, discussion and the definition of intervention dissemination co edited by the SEEBC and the UEE titled

strategies oriented to obtain better academic performance “Learning opportunities: Associated factors to Academic

levels in students of basic education. achievement in high schools of Baja California”.

The opening ceremony of the event was presided by B.A.

First, in a plenary session was offered the conference Alvaro Mayoral Miranda, Sub-Secretary of Basic Education,

“Associated factors to Academic achievement in high schools who mentioned the relevant roll played by UABC in the

of Baja California” by Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez Macias, who creation, appliance and transference of knowledge to

presented the outcomes of the study made in 2011 in which improve the educational practices in Baja California,

over 20,000 students in the state participated. After that, the highlighting the contribution that the IIDE makes in that

group of researchers from UEE coordinated the activity in matter.

several workshops integrated by technical pedagogical

counselors, superintendents, level chiefs and supervisors of

the five municipalities of the

Participation of the IIDE in the Teacher's training and updating from the Educational System of

Baja California.

Participation of the IIDE in the Teacher’s

trainingfrom the SEEBC.

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The IIDE'S recent numbers

El proceso de la convergencia digital: una propuesta estratégica para

promover su adopción.

Autores: Mayer Cabrera Flores y Arturo Serrano Santoyo.

Presentación: 13 de abril de 2012 en la Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, UABC.

Desarrollo y evaluación de lecciones en línea para la enseñanza

de la estadística basada en el constructivismo y objetos de

aprendizaje.Autor: Javier Organista Sandoval

Presentación: 7 de mayo de 2012 en instalaciones del IIDE.

Aportaciones de la investigación a la evaluación de estudiantes y docentes.

Autores: Eduardo Backhoff,Joaquín Caso, Luis A. Contreras, Norma Larrazolo, Juan C. Rodríguez y Vicente Arámburo. Edna Luna, coordinadora.

Presentación: 13 de abril de 2012 en instalaciones del IIDE.

Variables asociadas al rendimiento académico de adolescentes mexicanos.

Autor: Joaquín Caso Niebla.

IIDE’S AgendaNational and International Coming Conferences

Amsterdam, Holanda, del 3 al 5 de julio de 2012.8th. ITC Conference

Reims, Francia, del 3 al 8 de junio de 2012.Congreso AMCE 2012.

Pittsburgh, PA USA, del 11 al 17 de junio de 2012. CASOS 2012.

Burgos, España, del 4 al 7 de julio de 2012.XV Congreso Nacional y V Iberoamericano de pedagogía “Entre generaciones: educación, herencia y

Orlando, Florida, del 2 al 5 de agosto de 2012.120th. APA Annual Convention

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.

Campeche, Campeche, del 17 al 19 de octubre de 2012.XX Congreso Mexicano de Psicología.

Factores contextuales y de formación del docente que influyen en el diseño de cursos en línea”.

Autor: Lewis McAnally Salas