Research projects 2010 2013 Professional Identity Training of the university teacher based on the analysis of critical incidents. (FI_PANIC)
Main Researcher: Carles Monereo
Participating group members: UAB (David Duran, José Reinaldo Martínez, Ibis M. Álvarez, Marta Fuentes, Margarida Romero, Crista Weise, Silvia Blanch); URL (Montserrat Castelló, Eva Liesa, Anna Iñesta, Mariona Corcelles; M. Paula Mayoral); UdG (M. Lluïsa Pérez Cabaní; Carretero; Josep Juandó); UOC (Antoni Badia, Lorena Becerril) Duration: 2010-2013
Funding: Dirección General de Investigación y gestión del Plan Nacional I+D+i. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain).
Reference: EDU2010-15211 Objectives:
The research we are submitting aims at; firstly, identify which are the critical incidents that more often and more intensely destabilize the teaching task of the university professors in the field of social sciences through a tool created for this purpose. Secondly, we will prepare a training proposal focused in the resolution of the identified critical incidents, based on a guideline for the analysis of critical incidents which will be applied to five different situations: a) the use of the guideline only, b) the use of the guideline + a personal journal c) the use of the guideline + peer tutoring d) use of the guideline + collaborative virtual medium and e) use of the guideline + resolution of simulated problems. Finally, with a pre-test/post-test design with control group and multivariate analysis, we will compare the efficacy of the different formative proposals among them and with a control group, both in relation to the elements relating to the professional identity (changes in their insights and roles, in their methodological and strategic knowledge and in their emotional resources), and in relation to the teaching practice (the way in which they deal with critical incidents in their classes). 2012 European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively. COST ACTION Main Researcher: Denis Alamargot (COST-Action Leader) & Montserrat Castelló (WG2 leader)
Participating group members: Montserrat Castelló, Ana Iñesta, Mariona Corcelles; Marta Pardo; Maria Cerrato
Duration: 2009-2012
Funding: VII Programa Marco. European Union. (2009-2012)
Reference: ISO703 « ERN-LWE ».
Objectives: El objetivo principal de la acción es mejorar la comprensión de cómo se gestiona la producción escrita y cómo su aprendizaje y uso puede ser optimizado para todos los ciudadanos europeos, especialmente los escolares y los adultos que trabajan. Más concretamente, el proyecto (i) reúne a investigadores de diferentes países europeos, frente a la cuestión de la escritura desde una perspectiva europea (L1/L2, los métodos de enseñanza, las dimensiones culturales) y ( ii) espera reducir la brecha entre el mundo académico y la sociedad, tomando en cuenta las necesidades sociales, las de los investigadores y los profesionales. 2011 Study of the socio-educational value of friendship during the social integration process of immigrant teenagers in Catalunya.
Main Researcher: Ibis Marlene lvarez Valdivia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Participating group members: M. Reyes-Carretero and M. LL. Pérez-Cabaní (Universitat de Girona).
Duration: 2010 - 2011
Funding: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR).
Official announcement: ARAFI 2009. Grant to stimulate the applied research and university training on the matter of immigration in Catalunya.
Reference: 2009 ARF100015 Objectives:
The central objective of this research is to know if the friendship-relation represents a good environment for the integration of immigrant teenagers in Catalunya. That’s to say, if the friendship- relation potentiates the cultural exchange and offers the necessary support for social adjustment of these teenagers.
This general objective is defined with the following specific objectives: Get to know the teenagers’ social network. To explore the possible connection between friendship-relation and identity building, scholar adjustment, and general social adjustment. To describe the nature of friendship-relations that immigrant teenagers live. To design a guide for educational and social institutions where immigrant teenagers have a significant presence.
Our intention is to use qualitative techniques that inform us about the structure and dynamics of teenagers’ friendship-relations from different perspectives.
Collaboration Awareness Tool for CSCL (Euro-CAT-CSCL) Main Researcher: Margarida Romero
Participating group members: Montserrat Castelló Badia (coordinator in the URL), Carles Monereo Font (coordinator in the UAB) and Loles González.
Duration: 2008-2011
Funding entity: VII Programa Marc- People. Programm. Unión Europea
Granting reference: 218306 Objectives:
Collaboration Awareness Tool for CSCL users (Euro-CAT-CSCL) is a joint research project aiming to advance research knowledge in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). The joint research project wills also create an interoperable computer tools to add to groupware systems and main Learning Management Systems (LMS) in order to enhance the effectiveness and quality of persons in computer distance work/learning context. We called this tool CAT, for Computer Awareness Tool.
The main objective of the consortium is to develop a network making possible to answer to the trans-disciplinarian problem of Collaboration Awareness and provide end users with a tool allowing them to increase their collaboration and learning capabilities by bringing situational context information of their learning team partners. 2010 The design of our public politics about orientation and support in the school: a comparative analysis among the autonomous communitiesMain Researcher: Maria Consuelo Veraz
Participating group members: Montserrat Castelló Badia (coordinator in the URL), Marta Quer, Reyes Carretero, Paula Mayoral, Maria Cerrato and Maribel Cano
Duration: 2008-2010
Funding entity: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Granting reference: 2652 - UNED Objectives:
The general objective of this study is to identify the causes or factors that have lead to the different autonomic communities to make the decision to maintain the structure and model of the LOGSE law regarding the psychopedagogic orientation and intervention, or to decide on a new structure and model, with the purpose of valuing the appropriateness and sufficiency of the considered factors, and having systematic knowledge that can orient the future decision making by the public Administrations.
EVACOOP- Evaluation of the cooperative and the co-regulative strategies in educational contexts through authentic tasks Main Researcher: C. Monereo
Participating group members: A. Badia, M. Castelló, R. Carretero, M. L. Pérez, E. Liesa, I. M. Álvarez, D. Duran, J. R. Martínez, M. Fuentes, I. Gómez and M. Corcelles.
Duration: 2007-2010
Funding entity: Subvention of the Dirección General de Investigación (MEC) inside the Programa Nacional de Investigación.
Granting reference: SEJ2007-60868/EDU Objectives: The research that we present aims firstly at elaborating a set of authentic evaluative tasks (well and ill structured problems, simple and complex), that fulfil the PISA requirements, and that allow us to build a reliable and valid instrument, useful to evaluate the co-regulation and cooperation mechanisms that students at the end of the compulsory education deploy.
Secondly, using this instrument we will identify, analyse and categorize the most outstanding difficulties of these students regarding their cooperation strategies and abilities.
Finally, based on the former analysis, we will design a set of metacognitive scaffolds, aimed towards the compensation of the students’ needs, and we will test it with a sample of previously evaluated students so as to determine its efficacy in the improvement of students’ cooperative strategies and abilities. 2009  Xarxa incentivadora de la recerca educativa- LLERA L'educació lingüística i literària en entorns plurilingües
Main Researcher: M. Castelló
Participating group members: E. Liesa., A. Iñesta; Maribel Cano; Marta Pado, M. Corcelles y M. Cerrato
Duration: 2007-2009
Funding entity: Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) Generalitat de Catalunya
Granting reference: XIRE-00001
Objectives:
Incentivar i consolidar la recerca sobre ensenyament i aprenentatge de llengües en entorns de plurilingüisme. Promoure la transferència de coneixement als sectors educatius així com incrementar la comunicació entre els grups de la xarxa. Fonamentar les decisions que es prenen en el camp de l'educació lingüística i literària. Contribuir a consolidar els lligams entre recerca i formació del professorat de llengües. Construir una estructura de xarxa, d'interrelació i de treball conjunt entre els grups, que sigui la base per a la creació d'un Centre de Recerca.
2008 Construction of professional knowledge in beginner teachers in secondary education: Guidance and assessment processes Main Researcher: M. Castelló
Participating group members: E. Liesa, M. Corcelles, A. Iñesta, P. Mayoral, M. Cerrato, L. González
Other participants: N. Mollà and C. Bel
Participating entities: Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology and Educational and Sports Sciences, Ramon Llull University, and Salesians School in Sant Vicenç dels Horts
Duration: 2006-2008
Funding entity: Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology and Educational and Sports Sciences, Ramon Llull University
Granting reference: 105C03/2007 Objectives To develop a guidance and tutoring programme that enhances the construction of professional knowledge -making conscious and reflective decisions about teching actions- in beginner teachers in secondary education, adjusted to the needs of our educational context. More particularly: To get to know and help them control anxiety and indecision particular to their first teaching year in secondary education beginner teachers. To assess the impact of support and guidance provided to beginner teachers in those areas identified as problem areas. To develop and formalize the core and criteria upon which mentors or tutors base their guidance. To analyze how reflection on practice in tutoring processes, and face-to-face and online learning communities work in the adaptation of secondary education beginner teachers. To produce materials that can be the basis for support programmes for other beginner teachers at the beginning of every academic year in secondary education centres.
eLene-TLC: eLearning network for the development of a Teaching and Learning Service Centre Main Researcher: Deborah Arnold
Other participants: CANEGE – Vidéoscop-Univ. Nancy 2, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Paris-Sud, Nice Sofia Antipolis, CNED-Eifad (FR) Politecnico di Milano - METID (IT) University of Bremen (DE) Open University of Catalonia – UOC (ES) Helsinki Univ. of Tech. for the F. Virtual Univ. (FI) University of Umeå (SE) University of Utrecht (NL) Polish Virtual University (PL)
Participating entities: Open University of Catalonia and European Commission e-learning programme
Duration: 2007-2008
Funding entity: European Commission e-learning programme. Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
http://www.elene-tlc.net/
Objectives: The eLene Teaching and Learning Service Centre aims at: extending the teacher training service to a wide community of teachers; opening pedagogical services to students and training designers; fully involving decision-makers, thus ensuring an effective exchange of information, decisions, practice.
2007 Xarxa incentivadora de la recerca educativa- XIRE L'educació lingüística i literària en entorns plurilingües Main Researcher: Anna Camps Mundo
Participating group members: Montserrat Castelló Badia (coordinator in the URL), Mariona Corcelles, Gerardo Bañales, Norma Vega, Eva Liesa and Anna Iñesta. Duration: 2006-2007
Funding entity: Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR). Generalitat de Catalunya
Granting reference: XIRE-00001
Objectives:
Xarxa Incentivadora de Recerca LLERA (Llengua i Literatura, Ensenyament, Recerca i Aprenentatge) tries to promote a qualitative change in the conception of the education of the Language and Literature and, consequently, to boost investigation, to spread it and simultaneously to make the innovation possible in the field of the teaching formation. The objectives that LLERA sets out from its beginning are: To stimulate and consolidate the investigation on the teaching and learning of languages in plurilinguistic surroundings. To promote the transference of knowledge to the educative sectors as well as to increase the communication among the research groups of the network. To base the decisions that are taken in the field of the linguistic and literary education. To contribute to consolidate the links between investigation and formation of the Language teachers. To construct a structure of network, interrelation and joint work between the groups that can be the base for the creation of a Research centre.
ECOESTA - Assessing strategic knowledge through authentic tasks Main Researcher: C. Monereo
Participating group members: M. Castelló, I. Gómez, D. Durán, S. Sánchez, I. Álvarez, M. Zanoto, A. Cros, M. Vilà, M. Corcelles, and M. Cerrato. Duration: 2004-2007
Funding entity: DGES and MEC
Granting reference: SEJ2004-02458/EDUC Objectives:
Starting from the PISA criteria, the aim is that teachers modify their assessment tests, by making them more authentic and appropriate to assess students' learning strategies. These modifications could be as follows: Clarifying the sense and meaning in the presentation of tasks Showing different problem solving ways thanks to a prior cognitive analysis of tasks Checking the level of self-regulation in students by introducing some unexpected changes during performance Collecting information about the mental process followed by students It is also expected that assessment changes result in teaching changes. Changes towards more authentic and strategic teaching.
Is there a female managing style? (Public and private) discursive strategies of university managers Main Researchers: A. Cros and C. Monereo
Participating entities: Autonomous University of Barcelona
Duration: 2005-2007
Funding entity: Internal scholarship call for research works on sexism at the university (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Objectives: This research has a three-fold objective: To characterize the discourse of university management, understood as a discursive genre, and to identify the types of strategies, of a mainly argumentative orientation, which may be considered as characteristic of this genre. To identify competences needed to act as a good manager and to observe to what extent these competences are related to those needed to act as a good teacher. To identify differences in relation to (a) gender of teachers that develop management, and (b) other variables that affect both private and public discourse.
2006 Construction of professional teaching knowledge at university. Analysis of training needs and training proposals. Main Researcher: M.L. Pérez Cabaní
Participating entities: University of Girona
Duration: 2004-2006
Funding entity: University of Girona Objectives: This research project is aimed at achieving the following objectives: To collect and analyze professional careers of university teachers considered to be competent professionals. To identify and analyze situated professional knowledge that teachers have constructed throughout their professional careers. To analyze training needs to develop the university teaching profession. To contrast identified training needs with the opinion of experts in the field of teacher training and university management. To make teacher training move closer to requirements involved by teaching practice at University in order to provide responses adjusted to educational, professional, and social needs.
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