Education research has proved that expectations in schools are linked to student's performance. A set of studies corroborate their relationship with the children's improvement in the first stages of schooling. In this study we extend the issue to Higher Secondary Education and we analyze the connections between expectations and results in Basque Country schools. To this purpose, sixteen lower effectiveness schools and sixteen higher effectiveness schools were selected taking into account their results in the University Access Exams throughout five years (2010-2014). Semi-structured interviews with the Education Inspectors in charge of those schools were conducted in order to contrast the expectations about the two extreme groups. The outcomes show that expectations in schools are still a factor linked to student results in Higher Secondary School, as it occurs at the previous stages. As a result, it can be inferred that having high expectations and transmitting them in one's environment help immerse the education community in an important task which translates into good results.
La atención a la diversidad (AD) es un objetivo clave en la educación, también en la Formación Profesional Básica, que se caracteriza por ser un ámbito educativo de gran heterogeneidad del alumnado. Se presentan los resultados de un estudio ex-post facto realizado con objeto de analizar la sensibilidad del profesorado hacia la AD y los factores relacionados con la misma. La investigación se lleva a cabo mediante un diseño no experimental (ex-post facto) con una muestra representativa de 218 profesores de Formación Profesional Básica. Los resultados indican que el profesorado más sensibilizado con la AD concede mayor importancia al trabajo cooperativo, al rol desempeñado por el docente para fomentar el trabajo en equipo, a las tutorías, al compromiso de las familias, al apoyo de los compañeros y compañeras y a la coordinación y el funcionamiento del centro educativo. Se subraya también la importancia del trabajo en red para mejorar la formación del alumnado y la necesidad de profundizar en este tema para obtener, a nivel nacional, una visión holística e integrada de la situación de la Formación Profesional Básica, que contribuya a la mejora de la atención del alumnado en general y, especialmente, de quienes están en riesgo de exclusión educativa y social.
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