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The importance of ICT in Higher Education is present in international and national policies; in contextual moments where distance and asynchronous education is prioritized, it is urgent to identify the competences in university students. This research sought to validate in the Mexican population a scale to evaluate the frequency of use and function of ICTs and the educational contexts in which they are used, that supports knowledge about their strengths and areas of opportunity. The methodology was quantitative and divided into two phases: 1) descriptive study to design and pilot the scale; and 2) validation of the final version of the instrument with 390 students from three states of the country. From the analysis of descriptive studies, normality, construct validity (factor analysis) and reliability, the instrument was make up of two components: a) 26 items distributed in 4 factors that measure frequency of use and function; and b) 8 multiple - choice items to identify educational contexts of use. This scale explained 42.7% of the variance, with a global Cronbach Alpha of .91. The use of reliable assessment tools in higher education, will facilitate the intervention and the development of psycho - educational strategies for the acquisition of ICT skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study shows an exploratory experience of validation of an instrument for measuring the level of financial culture in the Millennial Generation. The instrument was developed based on 25 items in accordance with the Likert Scale, aimed at university students in the last year of the degree and recent graduates. Through the validity of content by 16 expert judges and the factor analysis, an exploratory exercise of content validity was achieved, allowing an analysis of each of the items to be established based on the level of financial culture. The degree of reliability of the instrument obtained through Cronbach's Alpha, showed a statistic of (0.681), so it is established that it has a level (0.592) of reliability, which means that the content of the instrument can be used for data collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to present the methodology that was designed for the development of research competences from the educational approach of socioformation, which includes an evaluation instrument to measure the impact of these on the pedagogy students, who, every four months, develop a research project in a group form. However, the absence of methodological knowledge and content were identified because they did not carry out the necessary collaboration to comply with each project. In addition, the teachers had no idea of what competences to develop or how to evaluate them for a better group performance. For this, an investigation was initiated in two stages: in first, a documentary analysis was carried out based on certain categories of analysis that led to the identification of competences, didactic strategies, and the type of evaluation that will be used. In the second one, an analytical rubric was designed with five levels of competence, under the supervision of expert judges, which was applied to a pilot group, as well as to a sample of 250 graduate students due to the lack of university students who were carrying out research projects. And, finally, to two groups of 50 students each, of the degree to establish a comparison according to the frequency of the results and confirm the validity of the evaluation instrument. For its analysis, Cronbach's alpha was used to measure its internal consistency, the V of Aiken for the validity of the content, and a factorial analysis through the factorization extraction method of the main axes. The results show that the evaluation instrument measures the research competences in accordance with the theoretical foundations of socioformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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