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AN ARROW IN THE BULLSEYE - Evaluation as learning - Evaluation is an educational phenomenon that conditions the whole teaching and learning process and it can be good for many purposes. The important thing is to use it as learning, as a way of understanding, to improve the practices to which it is applied. The metaphor of the arrow in the bullseye is good to understand, in an obvious way, that one may evaluate to classify, to compare, to select or, simply, to qualify. It is necessary, however, to use it to learn and to improve the learning of the students, the dynamics of the centres, the...

Video games are a very useful tool that allows us to connect with the world of youth interests and that can help to attend to student diversity, to deploy multiple intelligences, to favour interdisciplinary work, etc. The book presents 30 Video games, many of them well-known and always of easy access both for the faculty as well as for the pupils. Each Video game is perfectly described, it includes its technical record and explains the didactic proposal in detail for its immediate use in the classroom.

The book proposes that self-effectiveness in the university professor is nothing else but the confidence that the teaching personnel have in their own capacity to help students to learn. This confidence can make a difference in teaching as well as in the use of didactic strategies to increase quality learning at the university level. The book also addresses the concept of a collective self effectiveness. Joining efforts and feeling part of a common project is needed in order to advance successfully at the university leve.

Manuel Chaves Nogales (Sevilla, 1897-Londres, 1944) es hoy una de las referencias de la literatura y el periodismo español del siglo XX. En 1921, justo mientras dejaba preparada la publicación de este su primer libro, La ciudad, precisamente dedicado a escudriñar el alma difícil de su ciudad natal, marchó a Madrid, con escala en Córdoba, para hacer carrera en el cambiante mundo del periodismo. Como redactor jefe de El Heraldo y director de Ahora se convirtió en la referencia más avanzada del periodismo en la época de la República, llegando a ser contertulio del presidente Azaña. En ...