EL ÍNDICE DE INCLUSIÓN COMO HERRAMIENTA PARA LA MEJORA ESCOLAR
Education, quality, effectiveness and education improvement are worldwide well-discussed and well-researched subjects. The index for inclusion is an instrument used as a guide when supporting schools in the process of educative inclusion and, because of its characteristics, it could work as an enhancer of educational improvement. unesco proposes corresponding adaptations for each country, since the results obtained in the United Kingdom, and other European nations, has been very satisfactory. Following this guideline, this research aims at presenting the construct and content validity of the Index for Inclusion: improving learning and involvement at schools, in order to adapt it to Mexican schools. This is an exploratory prospective study that provides the very first validity evidence and that, based on a strategy of assessment carried out by professional qualified professionals, special education experts, aims at refining the measure instrument, with the intention of adapting it to the socio-cultural and educative Mexican situation. Finally, we can also consider that the study has an explicative dimension, since it tries to analyze the influence of certain variables, or to establish an association between these variables, on the profiles of the opinions of the experts. Despite the fact that results show an agreement in the opinions of those who have assessed the instrument in every aspect, we have identified disagreements in sections and indicators. For these, we provide adaptation alternatives.
La Red Iberoamericana de Investigación sobre Eficacia Escolar y Mejora de la Escuela : un ejemplo de colaboración internacional en investigación educativa
Los sistemas educativos de Iberoamerica se enfrentan en la actualidad con la necesidad de tomar decisiones con el objetivo de incrementar su equidad y calidad, a partir de unos recursos siempre escasos. Para ello, fuentes de informacion utiles y empiricamente validadas son los resultados de investigaciones encuadradas en los movimientos teorico-practicos de (Eficacia Escolan) y de «Mejora de la Escuela» desarrolladas en Iberoamerica. A partir de esos fundamentos, una serie de investigadores de America Latina, Espaila y Portugal decidieron crear la Red [beroamericana de Investigacion sobre Eficacia Escolar y Mejora de la Escuela (RlEME). En este articulo se describen sus objetivos y actividades como un ejemplo de asociacion para la colaboracion internacional destinada a la mejora de la educacion mediante el desarrollo de investigacion de calidad y la difusion de sus resultados.
Career Choice Inclination of the College Graduates——under the Analytic Framework on the Basis of LMS Theory
Employment difficulty of college graduates has become a social problem in China today.The research group has found that college graduates have a strong inclination in career choice considering units and regions.In terms of China's manpower market and the segmented labor market theory,it is found that their inclination is caused by the great income gap of different regions,the high cost of job transfer,and the sharp differences in social welfare.It is thus obvious that solution to the problem lies with the gradual breakdown of the institutional segment of labor market.