The training in research is fundamental in the quality of higher education and within this context, the technological mediation becomes pivotal to reach the student-centered learning objectives in any moment and at any time. The findings of a study, whose purpose has been to evaluate the results of the formative research of two groups of students that have interacted in learning environments (E-learning y U-learning), are presented. The research follows a quasi-experimental study with a design of chronological series and multiple treatment, framed in three stages that were defined as referencing, systematization, and analysis. The sample has been constituted by 189 students of 4th year degree in Childhood Education, at Universidad El Bosque in Bogotá, Colombia. The results reveal that U-learning environments strengthen and consolidate the formative research as a permanent process to learn educational research through the personalization, adaptation, and the situational learning, marking meaningful differences with respect to E-learning environments during the systematization stage. The intervention with U-learning environments has brought challenges and needs in the academic curriculum such as strengthening the link between evaluation and educational research in the field of professional practice, as well as the inclusion of technology to the end of making it something natural, adaptable, and interoperable, in a way that students would use it without even thinking about it.La formación en investigación es fundamental en la calidad de la Educación Superior y en este contexto, la mediación tecnológica resulta esencial para alcanzar objetivos de aprendizaje centrados en el estudiante en cualquier momento y lugar. Se presentan los hallazgos de un estudio cuyo propósito ha sido evaluar los resultados de la investigación formativa de dos grupos de estudiantes que han interactuado en ambientes de aprendizaje E-learning y U-learning. La investigación obedece a un estudio cuasi-experimental con un diseño de series cronológicas y tratamiento múltiple, enmarcada en tres etapas definidas como referenciación, sistematización y análisis. La muestra ha estado constituida por 189 estudiantes de cuarto año de Licenciatura en Educación Infantil de la Universidad El Bosque en Bogotá, Colombia. Los resultados revelan que los ambientes U-learning fortalecen la evaluación y consolidan la investigación formativa como un proceso permanente para aprender investigación educativa por medio de la personalización, adaptación y el aprendizaje situacional, marcando diferencias significativas con respecto a los ambientes E-learning durante la etapa de sistematización. La intervención con ambientes U-learning ha traído consigo retos y oportunidades de innovación en el currículo académico, tales como el fortalecimiento del vínculo entre la evaluación y la investigación educativa en los campos de práctica profesional, así como la inclusión de la tecnología hasta convertirla en algo natural, adaptable e interoperable, de modo que los estudiantes pueden utilizarla sin tan siquiera pensar en ella.

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la validez de contenido del modelo didáctico P-VIRC (preguntar-ver, interpretar, recorrer, contar) por medio de la técnica estadística de juicio de expertos. Estos expertos evaluaron una escala diseñada ad hoc a fin de analizar cada una de las dimensiones y elementos del citado modelo, según los criterios de suficiencia, claridad, coherencia y relevancia. Este artículo evidencia los resultados de una investigación instrumental, con un diseño no experimental de carácter descriptivo-comparativo. Los resultados evidencian que el modelo goza de validez de contenido y que existe concordancia entre los jueces en los criterios contrastados con la prueba W de Kendall. Se concluye que los componentes del modelo y sus indicadores de aprendizaje competencial instrumental, interpersonal y sistémico gozan de niveles de acuerdo satisfactorio entre los jueces, en los criterios de suficiencia, claridad, coherencia y relevancia.

This article shows the results of the study, which purpose was to reconfigure and develop a conceptual approach to research competences for the strengthening of educational research training processes. The research was conducted in four academic semesters and was based on a mixed approach with a Sequential Transformative Research Design (DITRAS). The process included a stage of documental analysis and systematization of qualitative data that were collected through semi-structured interviews. The second stage included the implementation of the CMI technique, which purpose was to identify categorical systems to classify research competences through the analysis of hierarchical conglomerates. Eleven experts in the area of ​​teaching-research in Higher Education participated, 24 students and 4 alumni from an undergraduate program in Early Childhood Education. The result of the study was to build a conceptual and taxonomic approach to the competencies for teacher-researcher training, which includes 79 learning outcomes that are classified in 29 constructs, and related in 8 competences. The strong theoretical influence in the processes of research training, the gradual devaluation of the experience as an agent in the construction of knowledge, and the pedagogical practice focused on the instrumentalization represent new challenges that go beyond the methodological. These challenges focus on the development of research training processes based on ethics, technology, teamwork and innovation. The final reflections constitute an approach to rethink the academic curricula based on formative research as an agent of transformation and assurance of educational quality.

This paper presents the opinions of primary education teachers in relation to school trips (outdoor learning environment). The following questions are answered: What importance do educational trips have in the context of the curriculum? Does the teacher take advantage of the resources that the environment offers? Are the contents of the curriculum taught during field trips? Are outings planned with the aim of showing students the heritage of the surrounding area? What do students’ families think? In order to answer these questions, a structured questionnaire (CUELX-M ^©) was designed, which was then completed by 124 primary school teachers who work in the Region of Murcia (Spain). Through the analysis of the responses to this questionnaire, a detailed study of teachers’ perceptions according to age, gender and teaching experience has been carried out. The reliability of the questionnaire was subjected to expert validation by judges (content, technical and methodological aspects). The reliability of each of the dimensions was also studied, and finally, the construct validity of the scales was studied. The results of Cronbach’s alpha test (=0.867) show that the questionnaire is internally consistent. 98% of the teachers participating in the study agree that school field trips should not be merely recreational and that heritage resources located in the surroundings of schools and cities should be used. However, they also point out that parents of students are sometimes reluctant for their children to participate in such activities due to their economic cost.

(1) The use of heritage in fieldwork, enabling the analysis of historical sources in museums via school trips, contributes towards the development of historical thinking and the formation of active, participative and critical citizens within the field of formal education (2) The general objective of the present study is to estimate the value which teachers and museum educators confer upon museums and school visits in the stages of early years, primary and secondary education. The research method employed is quantitative, based on the study of a descriptive comparative cross-sectional survey. The participants are 442 teachers, who visited two archaeological museums with their class groups in order to carry out an activity relating to the subject of history, and 18 museum educators. The data collection tool was the MUSELA © questionnaire. (3) The main results indicate that both teachers and educators agree that it is the responsibility of the educator to connect the visit with the interests of the group. 70% of the museum educators are totally in agreement with the academic perspective provided by museums, and more than 75% of the teachers and museum educators are totally in agreement with the fact that the objective of museum visits is to increase knowledge and cultural experience. (4) Educational agents’ understanding of the use of visits to archaeological museums as field trips for history work is a challenge that must be confronted over the coming decade. It is necessary to promote a model of collaboration that develops interaction by generating common educational projects.

The article presents the results of a study whose purpose was the design and validation of a scale to evaluate education research training.The study was based on the Item Response Theory (IRT) mathematical model, with adaptation to Guttman's cumulative scale. The levels of scientific research were considered to conduct the study in the following phases: 1) exploratory phase (content validity) by means of theoretical sampling, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups; 2) descriptive stage (construct validity) through the Delphi method; 3) analytical phase (consistency);4) explanatory stage (R & R analysis) through the application of the scale in mention. Nineteen professors-researchers, five graduates of the degree program, and 26 students of research training participated in the study. Theoretical-contextual argumentation, classification of reagents in hierarchical conglomerates, concordance measures, internal consistency indices, and stability analysis allowed to establish the validation of the scale. The execution of the scale through constructs, reagents, and binary differential indicators provides a valuable approach to evaluating research training processes, taking into account the dimensions of knowledge, doing, and being. In essence, the study's findings seek to contribute to strengthening education research around its assessment.