Se presenta una forma innovadora de aproximar la evaluación del aprendizaje desde una visión cognitiva. Para ello, se ejemplifica el uso de un modelo de medición constructiva-cronométrica del aprendizaje a través de varios dominios del conocimiento y se ilustra la forma en que este tipo de evaluación proporciona diversos indicadores de organización y estructura del esquema de conocimiento que el estudiante presenta antes y después de haber cursado una materia. La evidencia obtenida sugiere que el modelo de evaluación aquí propuesto es efectivo en la medición cognitiva del aprendizaje académico, lo que indica que la implementación de herramientas de evaluación de la ciencia cognitiva en el campo de la educación puede ser muy útil para ampliar nuestra comprensión sobre el proceso de adquisición de conocimiento. Estas y otras implicaciones para la evaluación del aprendizaje de los estudiantes se discuten en el presente trabajo.

Experimental single case studies on automatic processing of emotion were carried on a sample of people with an anxiety disorder. Participants were required to take three Audio Visual Entrainment (AVE) sessions to test for anxiety reduction as proclaimed by some academic research. Explicit reports were measured as well as pre-attentive bias to stressing information by using affective priming studies before and after AVE intervention. Group analysis shows that indeed AVEs program applications do reduce anxiety producing significant changes over explicit reports on anxiety levels and automatic processing bias of emotion. However, case by case analysis of six anxious participants shows that even when all of the participants report emotional improvement after intervention, not all of them reduce or eliminate dysfunctional bias to stressing information. Rather, they show a variety of processing styles due to intervention and some of them show no change at all. Implications of this differential effect to clinical sets are discussed.

The goal of the study was to measure and compare environmental preference on 59 biology students and 75 psychology students from a Mexican public university. Participants were shown 60 images of natural and urban environments, they were required to indicate the degree of relationship experienced with that environment, using a 7-point Likert scale. The results showed an internal consistency of 0.94 and a single-factor structure for the scale factor of nature dimension and three others related to an urban dimension (Entertainment, Pollution and Football Soccer). Moreover, a significant main difference on rating performance was obtained between the Biology and Psychology samples.

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