This paper proposes a development model of the adaptation capacity of students to digital transformation in university teaching through three constructs: motivations, digital pedagogy, and student autonomy. For this study, an ad hoc scale was created to record the adaptation capacity of students to digital transformation. The sample was 483 students from the University of Seville (Spain), to whom an online survey was administered during the development of online teaching in the period of November 2020 using the Google Forms platform. The findings of this study showed that university student motivation acquired a greater threshold than autonomy, whose threshold in turn, was greater than that of digital pedagogy in the ability to adapt to online teaching and that the capacity of adaptation to the online modality is explained by the perception that university students have of the usefulness, products, and learning outcomes, among others. In conclusion, the lack of adequate and enabled study spaces is key to developing the online model. We consider all these aspects as prospective research objectives.

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, ICT has been urgently introduced in education systems in a generalised manner. In this context, it is essential for teachers to master a spectrum of basic digital competencies and manifest digital leadership in the classroom. In addition, it is necessary to consider the relationship between digital competence development and social sustainability, that is, social and cultural heritage, and to what extent they contribute to improving social cohesion and living conditions in a community. This study presents a systematic review of research on teacher digital competence and social sustainability based on the PRISMA model and a review of 22 studies indexed in SCOPUS. The review reveals that most are intended to measure the digital competence level of teachers, usually in compulsory stages of the educational system and through quantitative studies based on virtual questionnaires comprised of closed-ended questions. However, the studies tend to ignore questions related to social sustainability (access to resources, heritage culture, intergenerational transmission, employability, or gender equality). It is therefore urgent to develop research committed to a sustainable society that is oriented towards social justice.

The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of university students toward teaching–learning processes during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research gathers inquiries made worldwide on the perceptions of students in higher education during a state of alarm. The proposed objectives were (a) to analyse the perception of students toward teaching–learning processes in university; (b) to determine the assessment given by students about the changes that took place in university teaching as a result of COVID-19; and (c) to explore resources (hardware and software), professional collaboration, digital pedagogy and student empowerment (motivation) regarding digital education and recent changes in university teaching due to the pandemic. This study used a non-experimental, descriptive design based on opinion polls or surveys. The results show a positive correlation between digital pedagogy, student motivation and digital environments. As a conclusion, we encourage the scientific community to continue delving into the motivation, collaboration and reflective exchange of experiences, self-learning and promotion of initiatives that foster the development of competencies in future teachers. It is also important to continue the research on integrated designs in training processes in university, tutoring and continuous evaluation, as they are key for digital transformation in universities.

Los estudios en alfabetización temprana han analizado las relaciones antecedentes entre las habilidades cognitivas en la Educación Infantil y el logro de la lectura durante el proceso de aprendizaje instructivo. Esta investigación describe la capacidad de predicción de ciertas habilidades cognitivas en las primeras etapas instruccionales del aprendizaje lector en español.Los participantes de este estudio fueron 362 niños españoles evaluados por primera vez en 2º y 3º de Educación Infantil. Los instrumentos empleados en las evaluaciones de las competencias lingüísticas han sido la Batería de Inicio a la Lectura, la Batería de Evaluación de los Procesos Lectores, The Rapid Automatized Naming Test y el Test de Lectura y Escritura en Español. Los resultados delimitaron un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales para la predicción del rendimiento lector inicial en 1º y 2º de Educación Primaria. El modelo alcanzado, Modelo de Aprendizaje en la Lectura Inicial, delimitó las relaciones entre las habilidades del lenguaje oral y las habilidades relacionadas con el código escrito que actuaron como precursores del rendimiento lector inicial. El desempeño en la tarea de velocidad de denominación de letras en Educación Infantil se presentó como el mejor precursor de la eficiencia lectora en 1º y 2º de Educación Primaria. Los hallazgos del estudio realizan una contribución significativa a la investigación en alfabetización temprana en español como referente para el desarrollo de actuaciones pedagógicas y el logro de éxito lector. Early literacy studies analyzes the antecedent relationships between cognitive skills in preschool education and achievement of reading during the instructional learning process. This study describes the predictive capacity of certain cognitive abilities in the early instructional stages of Spanish learning. The participants of this study was 362 Spanish children evaluated in 2nd and 3rd year of Early Childhood Education (children aged 4 to 6 years) at the first time.The instruments used in the assessments of language skills have been the Beginning Reading Battery, the Reading Process Assessment Battery, The Rapid Automatized Naming Test and the Reading and Writing Test in Spanish. The results delimited a model of structural equations for the prediction of initial reading performance in 1st and 2nd year of Primary Education (6 to 8 years). The model reached, Learning Model in the Initial Reading, delimited the relations between the oral language skills and the skills related to the code that acts as precursors of the initial reader performance. The performance in the task of letters-naming speed at 2nd and 3rd of Early Childhood Education was presented as the best precursor of reading efficiency at 1st and 2nd year of Primary Education. The findings of study make a significant contribution to early literacy research in Spanish as a reference to develop of pedagogical actions for the achievement of reader success.

Early literacy skills serve as the best precursors of reading success and risk indicators of the double deficit and triple deficit hypotheses according to the spelling consistency of languages. Our study analyzes the predictive value of phonological awareness, naming speed, and orthographic skills for early reading in Spanish. Participants included 362 Spanish children aged 4 to 5 years. We used data analysis to examine the relationships between these precursors and fluency through a structural equation model and investigated the risk indicators of poor reading performance according to the double deficit and triple deficit hypotheses using binary logistic analysis. Our research delimits a model for the Spanish language that emphasizes the predictive value of phonological awareness, letter-naming fluency, and knowledge of graphemes in early reading. Letter-naming fluency is the best precursor to early reading experiences, and poor early reading performance in children is explained by deficits in phonological awareness, naming speed, and visual orientation. Our findings confirm the risk indicators of the triple deficit hypothesis in the early learning of reading in Spanish.

Esta investigación pretende analizar la influencia del nivel educativo de los padres y madres, la profesión y el rol educativo de los mismos en el rendimiento lector de sus hijos e hijas de forma comparada entre países de lengua iglesa y española. El estudio se aborda desde un análisis multinivel y de regresión logística binaria. Los resultados muestran que el contexto sociofamiliar aporta una predicción entorno al 20% en países de habla española y el 15% en países de habla inglesa. La incidencia más significativa se produce por el nivel de estudios medio de los padres y la muestra de interés de los padres en las actividades escolares y el apoyo educativo hacia sus hijos en ambos bloques de países.