Impact of Mathematics School Performance at Middle School for Academic Institutional Management Based on the Checkland Methodology

Currently the development of countries has acquired importance as a result of the process of economic globalization, which has established various challenges to the economic activities worldwide. So numerical, mathematical and digital competences, are very important to participating fully in the knowledge society. Thus, the chapter proposal considers Checkland's Methodology as an oriented alternative to analyze the object of study in situations with a high rate of human intervention such as education. The chapter proposal will be organized into three sections: the first one related to the factors involved in school performance, the quality of education and the impact that have the math skills at middle school; the second focused on the characteristics of the methodology of Checkland applied to mathematics, and the third, a key options proposal for designing to the students motivation for a better mathematics learning that allows assessment of the institutional management in performance in such subject and increase educational standards.

Evaluation of Institutional Management Based on Leadership Competencies in Middle School Education

In a globalized world, public policies are subject to the recommendations of international organizations that regulate and determine educational policies according to their own needs and interests. In this sense, educational skills, arising from the business world, have become the focus of curriculum design and teacher professionalism and managerial schools Basic and Secondary Education in Mexico. Specifically, the National Association of Professional Technical Education (CONALEP), has become a pillar that provides students of Media Education competent technical professional for requirements that are demanded today. Since its birth in 1978 was oriented to the formation of technical professionals, graduates of Basic Education, with the main objective job training, intersectoral linkages, community support and technological advice and assistance to businesses.

Evaluation and Identification of Professional Tourism Educational and Training Competences

This chapter deals with the evaluation and identification of professional tourism educational and training competences with the purpose of recognizing the main characteristics of labour capacity in the tourism industry. Tourism is promoted through education, as well as through the development of skills and tools that result in an optimal labour performance during the stages of school training. Moreover, it describes the relationship of knowledge management in the tourism sector that leads to quality in human capital, in addition to professional alignment, in an educational context. As this section focuses on the overview of professional tourism, the following components are considered; the preamble and classification of the tourism industry, the conceptualization of educational evaluation and competence, and concludes with the description and analysis of the works targeted at the evaluation and identification of professional competences in tourism.

Challenges of Public Policies for an Inclusive Higher Education

This research note focuses on the major challenges of public policies emphasizing the implications guarantee quality education for all in order to contribute to achieving a socially inclusive future in a metropolis like Mexico City. The importance of inclusive education is directly linked to social, economic and sustainable development of the country, therefore, a quality education that includes everyone equally, calls for an analysis of the school and the social environment, our multiculturalism and active acceptance of that which is different from the norm and the relationship between it establishes for the formation of the common good. Therefore, we consider it necessary to address a comprehensive policy for education to eliminate exclusion factors such as: accessibility, infrastructure, equal treatment, access opportunities, gender and economic deciles access.

Organizational Metaphors and the Evaluation of Higher Education Programs, Management Practices, and Change Processes

Utilizing a conceptual framework based on Morgan's (1998) organizational metaphors, this chapter reports on a qualitative study conducted with faculty members to evaluate their experience of a new program and influence change processes in a teacher-training higher educational institution in Abu Dhabi, UAE, during a period of major educational restructuring. With respect to metaphors generated in response to overall perceptions of organizational dynamics, management practices, and change processes, the study demonstrates tensions surrounding access to channels of communication and decision making within the local educational context; however, no overt concerns on culture shock are found. Moreover, many metaphors are consistent with Morgan's original constructs, whereas a number are unique to the localized context. Organizational metaphors may thus be used as a feedback mechanism to guide systemic decision making around change initiatives within this institution, and to stimulate management research in this region and other higher educational settings.

Assessment of Academic Management as a Success Factor for Knowledge Management

In this research several elements are exposed through a network of processes which build a quality academic system in a sequence “diagnosis-planning-management”. To get the information which would generate these criteria, a Likert questionnaire for 30 students and 8 teachers was designed; also an interview for a manager based on standardized indicators by the Ministry of Education to get the self-evaluation. The gathered information generated the value judgment that when it was applied to the evaluation of the academic management, some results were highlighted. Finally, this research establishs as objective the design of a relevant proposal to ensure that the academic management achieve quality processes based on the application of knowledge management and also get the improvement of its services based on self-assessment.

Evaluation of Teaching Competency-Based Performance in Middle School Education

The research analyzes the problem of teachers' evaluation of Middle School Education at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN, for its acronyms in Spanish), which has been practiced using the same instrument since the assessment process started until now. From this approach, the National Education Model of high-schools, and, consequently, of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional is competency-based. There are eight competencies assigned to teachers' development, which are included in the Comprehensive Reform of Middle School Education. The eight teaching competencies are unfolded as attributes that are displayed as performance and/or products, which make up: knowledges, skills and attitudes that are applied in the classroom in order to generate learning environments and to have students develop their own competencies to achieve the high-school degree profile. The general aim of the research is to design an evaluation instrument of middle school education at the IPN, so that students determine the teachers' development according to the model of competencies.

Alternative Concepts of Economic Development and Their Implications for Higher Education

This chapter is an academic essay that presents six theoretical concepts about economic human development that allow the leaders and the teaching staff of the institutions of higher education to understand that the growth and integral development of a country does not only rely on the fruits of a given ideology or economic system, in a fixed time, but on the integral human development of the peoples from their culture, customs, idiosyncrasy, production means, integration with other nations, among other ways of expressing their identity and their ways of life. These concepts are: 1) economic and social growth, 2) self-sufficiency, 3) interdependence, 4) self-determination, 5) knowledge as a transformation strategy, and 6) integral human development. It is proposed the analysis of these concepts to explore utilization alternatives for the development of future research works.

Evaluation of the Management of Second Language Study Development Program at Secondary School in Mexico

It is currently determining programmes of teaching of foreign language especially in Latin American countries, to go in line with quality policies demanded by international agencies. In Mexico the Second Language Study Development Program (English), represents a new model for the teaching of English as a second language. The present paper aims to propose indicators that allow to evaluate the academic governance of this program at the secondary level, based on the general theory of systems and above all in the pursuit of a quality education; the criteria are: teachers; Teaching-learning processes; Infrastructure support and training materials; certification; Accreditation of the subject index; Learning products; Planning; Students and address. The above demonstrates the need to develop indicators that can serve as a guide for the constant improvement of the management of the programme, and to ensure the students English learning.

Evaluation of the Educational Opportunities of Middle High School Graduates

The education enables individuals to add value to the economy, contributing to the cultural heritage, participate in society, improve health, protect the environment and increase their ability to continue to develop. Therefore it is essential that educational system promotes educational opportunities in order to be equitably distributed among all social sectors and boost that graduates and could have the opportunity to performance occupations in which they could take advantage the schooling they have acquired. So, the chapter proposal will be organized into three sections: the first related to globalization and middle education in Mexico; the second based on group interviews conducted with the technique called focus group and, third, the characteristics of the methodology-oriented design of a set of indicators that evaluate and feedback educational programs that graduates have studied, based this, they could achieve and improve educational opportunities.