Interdisciplinary projects play an important role in the development of a student profile based on the 21st century skills. Nevertheless, the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach is a challenge for both teachers and teacher educators. The aim of this study is to create an interdisciplinary model for teacher education, and to provide an empirical study which analyses its impact on learning. An educational innovation project was carried out with preservice teachers who experienced and subsequently designed a Problem Based Learning with interdisciplinary activities including Mathematics and Social Sciences, using the National Archaeological Museum as an educational resource. The proposals were implemented amongst children to evaluate the project’s effectiveness, considering two aspects: (a) improved teaching skills for preservice teachers (N = 26) and (b) improved learning for Mathematics and Social Sciences content amongst primary school children (N = 58). In the case of the student teachers, the variance analysis implemented showed sufficient empirical evidence of the improvement between the pre and post treatment, in different dimensions of the teaching skills and competences. On the primary school students, some significantly statistic progresses were found concerning the learning of both subjects, as well as their perception of museums as place for learning.

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<p class="PSIResumen">Este trabajo se enmarca en el Proyecto de Investigación de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas denominado EDUCOMPET. El artículo presenta el proceso de diseño y de validación de una escala para medir la autopercepción del nivel de desarrollo de la competencia de aprender a aprender en estudiantes universitarios. La integración de las competencias clave a nivel europeo requiere de una fundamentación teórica sólida que sustente la adecuación de los instrumentos para su medida. En este trabajo se propone una estructura del constructo desde la perspectiva de la autorregulación. La estructura se centra en tres dimensiones: gestión del aprendizaje, autoevaluación del proceso de aprendizaje y autoconocimiento como aprendiz. Se ha aplicado el instrumento a una muestra de 458 estudiantes universitarios. Se realizaron análisis exploratorios y confirmatorios para validar el modelo teórico del que se partía y se obtuvo una fiabilidad e índices de ajuste adecuados para justificar la validez del instrumento.</p>

This research arises from the university’s need to contribute to the training of professionals, especially teachers, who, in turn are committed to contribute to a more sustainable and socially just world at the institutions for which they are professionals. In this context, a pedagogical approach emerges to promote the development of the civic and social competences of higher education students’ using the methodology of Service Learning. The aim of this study is to analyse the acquisition and development of the socio-educational commitment and self-efficacy variables of student teachers based on their participation in Service Learning programmes, comparing this with the results of carrying out university volunteering activities. A quantitative correlational study was carried out with preservice teachers (N = 207). The basic hypothesis is that the results would be in favour of the participation in Service Learning activities on the fundamental variables of the study: socio-educational commitment, teaching self-efficacy and self-efficacy in the creation of instructional materials. For this purpose, a specific scale was designed to measure Teachers’ socio-educational commitment with favourable psychometric characteristics. The results show sufficient empirical evidence (p < 0.01) for the development of socio-educational commitment and self-efficacy variables in favour of those who participated in Service Learning programmes.