Public University In Mexico Research Articles

Uso y aceptación del video como estrategia para mitigar el plagio

The present research aimed to determine the use and acceptance of video in the self-creation of assignments or evidence of learning as a strategy to mitigate plagiarism. This research adopted a mixed design, with an experimental, exploratory, and descriptive scope that reflects an innovative approach to meet this challenge. A non-probabilistic sample was considered, comprised of students in their first semester of higher education in the subject of Introduction to Programming at a public university in Mexico. The participants were divided into an intervention group and a control group. The acceptance of the use of the implemented strategy was evaluated using the Technology Acceptance Model and the results revealed the viability and usefulness of the strategy since the students in the intervention group stood out in the creation of their assignments compared to the control group. There was a positive and strong relationship between academic performance and the perceived usefulness of the strategy. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of teachers promoting the active role of students in the development of their work, to promote authentic learning and guarantee educational quality.

Risk Conditions for Stress, its Coping and its Relationship with Trait-State Anxiety in Nursing Students of a Public University in Guadalajara, Mexico

The level of demand during the academic training of nursing students is high and when there is the presence of risk conditions for stress together with the lack of adequate coping styles, it is very likely that they may present high levels of trait-state anxiety, which can affect the academic performance and health of these students, Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish two multiple regression models, one to analyze the relationship of Trait-State Anxiety and the other for Trait-State Anxiety and its relationship with stress risk conditions and coping styles in nursing students at a public university in Mexico. A total of 740 students were assessed, the models were determined by multiple regression analysis. This study established that nursing students at a public university in Mexico, who make negative evaluations have a higher risk of presenting A-State, and that students who present type A behavior and make positive evaluations, as well as those who consume tobacco, alcohol and/or drugs, increase the risk of A-Trait, Therefore, it is recommended to implement educational programs aimed at providing coping strategies that help to lower the levels of Trait-State Anxiety, as well as to create the choice of healthy practices through the use of protective coping styles to prevent these conditions before they have a negative impact on the health, academic performance and university dropout of nursing students in Mexico.

Government Challenges and Financial Strengthening of Higher Education in Mexico

The allocation of public resources can either enhance or hinder a nation’s educational development at any level. This research examines the direction of international commitmentto education, the role of Higher Education Institutions, and the capture and implementation of funding sources. The text discusses education as a human right and a mechanism forphysical, social, emotional, creative, and humanistic development within socio‑political precepts. The analysis focuses on 13 State Public Universities in Mexico, examiningbudgetary variations and their impact on students and institutions. The text contrasts discursive and factual information. Among the main findings, Mexican Higher Education has the highest budget allocation. However, the sources of financing do not fully cover citizen demand. Operating expenses include the equipment of classrooms, maintenance of buildings, and salary payments. They represent a symbolic and tangible investment inthe talent and development of a historically vulnerable sector that governments should prioritize In conclusion, the consolidation of Higher Education and its universities mustadhere to national and international requirements. This includes expanding the level of education, achieving upward social mobility, and improving the living conditions ofMexicans, regardless of their place of residence or educational environment.

Ethics, transparency and finances in state public universities in Mexico

The UPE in Mexico are entities that financially operate by means of subsidies granted by the federation and the federal entities, which are used to fulfill their substantive and administrative functions; the subsidies are public resources subject to auditing according to various federal provisions; This article highlights the importance of ethics, transparency and accountability in state public universities in Mexico, by means of a non-experimental analysis of quantitative and correlational type and having as results those issued by the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) in the fiscal year 2020 where it made an average of 20 observations for each UPE of which 3. In addition, there is a moderate correlation between observations made and observations not solved, concluding that ethics, transparency and accountability are determining factors in the efficient use of financial resources in the UPE in Mexico.

Perceived instructor presence, interactive tools, student engagement, and satisfaction in hybrid education post-COVID-19 lockdown in Mexico

Interactive communication platforms have been widely used to support online teaching. However, during the Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic they gained unprecedented relevance since they allowed educational processes to continue. This study investigated the relationship among interactive communication technology tools, perceived instructor presence, student satisfaction and engagement in hybrid courses post-COVID-19 lockdown. An electronic questionnaire was administered to 1086 students from a public university in Mexico that implemented a hybrid class model using Microsoft Teams after the lockdown. Jamovi and WarpPLS were used to perform confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The findings revealed that interactive technological communication tools positively impact the instructor's perceived presence, student satisfaction and engagement. Similarly, commitment significantly positively impacted student satisfaction. The model demonstrated a good fit. The findings were consistent with studies before and during the lockdown. The instructor's perceived presence promotes student engagement and satisfaction, and Microsoft Teams effectively facilitates this presence. These findings suggest that interactive communication tools are and will be significant in educational contexts and modalities. This study provides useful insights for educators, course designers and educational administrators, emphasizing effective communication with students and implementing interactive technological communication tools to enhance hybrid learning in the post-pandemic era.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a Stress Prediction Model in Mexican Dentistry Students

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a functional gastrointestinal disorder associated with stress that may occur in the academic context, given that students are exposed to high demands during their education process which can lead to the development of diseases. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation and predictive value between the Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) with stress in dentistry students at a public university in Mexico, taking into account the gender variable. The design is cross-sectional with 740 dental students. Nowack’s Stress Profile was used as well as the ROMA III criteria to identify IBS. Multiple lineal regression models were built, in which the dependent variable was IBS and the independent ones were the stress profile variables and group data. Such models were built independently for each sex and their results were compared. The IBS model in males was significant in the following variables: IBS = – 1.454 (problem concentration) + .315 (negative valuation) – .390 (social support network) + .513 (type A behavior) – .464 (rest/sleep), with a strength of R2 = .685; F = 75.72; p < .01 which explains 68% of the variance; and for females it was: ISB = – .041 (positive valuation) – .082 (eating habits/nutrition) with a strength of R2 = .643; F = 42.69; p < .01, which explains 64% of the variance. The comparative análisis determined that male dental students are at a greater risk of developing IBS due to stress. Therefore, programs aimed at a timely identification of the stress risk variables would be recommended to prevent consequences to the health, inadequate academic performance and wellbeing of dental students in Mexico.

English students’ perceptions about their motivation having online classes during the Covid-19 pandemic

The transition from face-to-face classes to online classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic had a great impact on English Language Teaching students which shaped their opinions about their motivation. For this reason, this qualitative research aims to describe how online classes influenced English students’ motivation during Covid-19 pandemic in a public university in Mexico. Seven students were interviewed. Results showed that students experienced low motivation during the pandemic due to three main reasons: distractions that they had at home, lack of social interaction and lack of feedback. Nevertheless, what kept them motivated was their intrinsic motivation. In contrast, their motivation when having face-to-face classes was higher by far.

Fostering Intercultural Competence in a Pre-Graduate Course at a Public University in Mexico

Fostering Intercultural Competence in a Pre-Graduate Course at a Public University in Mexico

A Methodology for the Analysis of Collaboration Networks with Higher-Order Interactions

Scientific research often involves collaboration among researchers, and coauthorship networks are a common means of exploring these collaborations. However, traditional coauthorship networks represent coauthorship relations using simple links, i.e., pairwise interactions, which fail to capture the strength of scientific collaborations in either small or large groups. In this study, we propose a novel methodology to address this issue, which involves using a multilayer network model that captures the strength of coauthorship relations and employs a convergence index to identify the collaboration order in which these properties converge. We apply this methodology to investigate the collaborative behavior of researchers in the context of the three main public universities in Mexico over the last decade, using Scopus data as the primary source of information. Our study reveals that community structure emerges in low-order collaborations, and higher-order collaborations lead to increased clustering and centrality measures. Our methodology provides a comprehensive and insightful way of analyzing scientific collaborations and sheds light on the dynamics of scientific collaboration, providing a valuable tool for future studies. Our proposed model and convergence index can be applied to other scientific domains to better capture the strength of collaborations among researchers.

Beliefs and Practices of Academic Reading and Writing in Researchers in Training

This study aimed to examine and explain teachers' and students' reading and writing practices and beliefs in a master's program at a public university in Mexico. We conducted qualitative cross-sectional research. A self-administered questionnaire with open-ended questions was used in the initial stage to examine two distinct beliefs of reading and writing and identify key actors. Six interviews with teachers and students were carried out during the second stage. The study corroborates that the different beliefs are not mutually exclusive but can simultaneously exist in the same person, though they may be weighted differently. Those who firmly hold transmissive beliefs understand that reading and writing are processes to obtain (decode) and transmit (encode) information. In practice, these people emphasize the importance of identifying main ideas, summarizing texts, writing following a structure and taking up ideas from other authors. On the contrary, those who mostly hold transactional beliefs think that reading and writing are creative, dialogic and meaning-construction processes. Some of their reading and writing practices focus on aspects such as: defining a standpoint regarding the text, investigating the context of the author or reader, and defining reading or writing purposes. The research highlights the possibility of reconceptualizing reading and writing in the academic context, valuing their epistemic function and transforming the prevalent discourse that conceives them as technical and universal skills, which can be improved by correctly applying grammatical rules or following effective formulas.

Student Value Co-creation Behaviour in The Higher Education Service Ecosystem: An Empirical Exploration

This article addresses students’ value co-creation behaviour, framed by the Service-Dominant logic approach, within the context of the marketization of the higher education service ecosystem. The objective is to explore how students integrate their cognitive and behavioural activities during their academic trajectory. The study surveyed 375 first-year undergraduate students, all with weighted grade point averages (GPA) in the range of 8.5 to 9.5 out of 10, at a public university in Mexico, a region characterized by a strong presence of the prevalent passive customer-student analogy tendency. A principal component analysis was also conducted to assess the grouping of the eight original dimensions included in the scale implemented for this ecosystem. In addition, a non-hierarchical cluster analysis was employed to categorize the students according to their co-creation behaviour. The results identify three segments of students: the first with a high willingness to cocreate value, the second characterized by a proactive attitude but lack of interest in relationships with peers and teachers, and the third characterized by a low level of co-creation in all dimensions assessed. These findings highlight that not all students engage in co-creation behaviours during their academic pursuits, even when they achieve outstanding grades. The results suggest some considerations for operationalizing value co-creation in the context of the educational service ecosystem, highlighting its implementation as a dynamic and nonlinear process, considering predelivery and postdelivery. It also highlights the relevance of involving students in activities beyond traditional activities during their service experience. Finally, this study stresses the need to adopt a long-term perspective rather than seek immediate student satisfaction, suggesting the importance of designing more sustainable educational policies and strategies.

University setting and infrastructure for the people’s well-being: Universidad de Guadalajara in the face of the pandemic

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) placed its infrastructure, —particularly schools, laboratories, research centers and institutes, and departments related to the areas of health and human resources— at the service of civil authorities and the population in general. Before any other public university in Mexico, UdeG implemented and published measures to prevent COVID-19 infections, which began with the suspension of public meetings and face-to-face activities, and the installation of a Health Situation Room, and which continued with the Enabling of the Active COVID-19 Detection System, the reconversion of the Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara, until reaching the Design of the Vaccination Plan, to name a few. The objective of this article is to describe how actions related to the management of the university environment and infrastructure not only put the largest state public university in the country at people’s service as never before, but also about how we have been forced to reconceptualize the mission and vision of higher education based on the needs identified during the pandemic, from a humanistic, integrative, unitary, global and interdisciplinary perspective.Keyword: COVID-19, universities, setting and infrastructure, health sciences, innovation

Online learning impact on transitioning to ERT: Mexican ELT experiences

This project set out to scrutinise the experiences of a group of students pursuing an online B.A. in English Language Teaching (ELT) at four different public universities in Mexico while being in-service English teachers at different levels in public and private sectors. Their teaching practice was given in face-to-face settings; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these teacher-students were required to migrate their practice to remote teaching. It is in this line of arguments that the researchers, as the participants’ ELT teachers, were interested in knowing if any strategies from the online-learning student role were useful to transition as remote ELT-teachers. As a follow-up method to questionnaires administered to 55 online ELT students, semi-structured interviews were conducted to a total of 11 participants, from the participating universities. Findings indicate that online learning experience does have a positive impact when transitioning from face-to-face instruction to remote teaching. Regardless of the participants’ ICT skills development, there was evidence of soft skills fostering. Moreover, the challenges and limitations they faced inevitably led to a fruitful reengineering process.

Comparative Analysis of Edentulism in a Sample of Mexican Adults with and without Type 2 Diabetes.

The objective of the present study was to compare the prevalence of edentulism in Mexican adults with and without a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) when they are seeking dental care. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1921 medical records of Mexican adults 40 years of age and older who sought dental care at clinics of a public university in Mexico. The dependent variable was edentulism, clinically determined through an oral examination. The main independent variable was the self-report of previous T2DM diagnosis made by a physician. Sociodemographic, socioeconomic and behavioral covariates were included in a multivariate binary logistic regression model. Overall edentulism prevalence was 8.4% (95% CI = 7.1-9.6). The prevalence of T2DM was 14.3% (n = 274). The prevalence of edentulism among individuals with T2DM was 13.1%, but only 7.6% among individuals without T2DM. In the multivariate binary logistic regression model, a previous T2DM diagnosis increased the probability of being edentulous 1.61 times (95% CI = 1.03-2.50). For each year a person's age increased, the likelihood of being edentulous increased by 12% (95% CI = 10-14%). In summary, a higher prevalence of edentulism was present in Mexican adults with T2DM and in those of older age. This information may be used by dental care providers and health policymakers to improve approaches to preventive care, as well as to characterize and anticipate care needs more accurately for the adult and older adult populations.

Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and COVID-19 hesitancy in a large public university in Mexico city during the early vaccination rollout

BackgroundVaccination against COVID-19 is a primary tool for controlling the pandemic. However, the spread of vaccine hesitancy constitutes a significant threat to reverse progress in preventing the disease. Studies conducted in Mexico have revealed that vaccination intention in Mexico among the general population ranges from 62 to 82%.ObjectiveTo know the prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and associated factors among academics, students, and administrative personnel of a public university in Mexico City.MethodsWe administered an online survey investigating sociodemographic aspects, knowledge, attitudes, practices, and acceptance/hesitancy regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Using generalized linear Poisson models, we analyzed factors associated with vaccine hesitancy, defined as not intending to be vaccinated within the following six months or refusing vaccination.ResultsDuring May and June 2021, we studied 840 people, prevalence of vaccine hesitancy was 6%. Hesitancy was significantly associated with fear of adverse effects, distrust of physician’s recommendations, lack of knowledge regarding handwashing, age younger than 40 years, refusal to use face masks, and not having received influenza vaccination during the two previous seasons.ConclusionsVaccine hesitancy in this population is low. Furthermore, our results allowed us the identification of characteristics that can improve vaccine promotion.

Multi-label classification of feedbacks

This work deals with educational text mining, a field of natural language processing applied to education. The objective is to classify the feedback generated by teachers in online courses to the activities sent by students according to the model of Hattie and Timperley (2007), considering that feedback may be at the levels task, process, regulation, praise and other. Four multi-label classification methods of the data transformation approach - binary relevance, classification chains, power labelset and rakel-d - are compared with the base algorithms SVM, Random Forest, Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes. The methodology was applied to a case study in which 11013 feedbacks written in Spanish language from 121 online courses of the Law degree from a public university in Mexico were collected from the Blackboard learning manager system. The results show that the random forests algorithms and vector support machines will have the best performance when using the binary relevance transformation and classifier chains methods.

Global warming in the minds of Mexican higher education students: an exploratory study

Global warming in the minds of Mexican higher education students: an exploratory study

As percepções dos professores sobre a transição para o ensino remoto de emergência em uma grande universidade pública no México durante a pandemia

Abstract This paper presents the most relevant results from a follow-up questionnaire applied to a sample of professors from the largest public university in Mexico — the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It further investigates the issues identified by a questionnaire applied at the start of the pandemic (whose results were also published), sending a follow-up questionnaire to the university faculty months later. The research sought to identify and describe the opinions, experiences, characteristics, and conditions in which these professors had to switch to remote teaching using technological tools during the pandemic. Data were collected by an exploratory online survey with Likert-type multiple choice and open questions applied to a non-random sample of 513 professors at UNAM. Results show that 43% of the participants considered the quality of remote teaching to be equal to classroom teaching, 23% reported an improvement, and 34% stated that it was worse. Most respondents said they spent an average of 1 to 10 hours per week on teaching activities, with assessing and providing feedback on student assignments being the most time-consuming. Clearly, the experiences and teaching activities of university professors are changing as the pandemic continues. Post-pandemic times will require a more compelling answer from higher education institutions regarding the social inequalities generated by the pandemic.

Nursing professor as being-cared for in the professor-student relationship.

to understand the meaning of professor as being-cared for that is manifested in the nursing professor-student relationship. a qualitative phenomenological study, using Martin Heidegger's philosophical framework. It was carried out at a public university in Mexico. The phenomenological interview was used as a data collection method. An ontic analysis and a second analysis were carried out through Martin Heidegger's Hermeneutic circle. within the interviews, 5 main themes were discovered, which were classified as: Care of physical needs, occupation as care; Nursing care teaching; Monitoring and coexisting with professors; Encouraging reflection on care towards authenticity; Students as a person, coexistence and existence of care. nursing professors, in addition to being the one who provides students with necessary knowledge for training nursing professionals, share aspects that involve more than science itself. Professors become a collaborator who hopes to contribute to nursing students' deepest aspects, impacting their academic training favorably.

The Importance of Information for Effective University–Firm Technology Transfer: The Case of ICAT–UNAM

As part of their mission, faculties, centers, and research institutes of public universities in Mexico, develop technology products to a certain level of maturity. Normally, project development teams are devoted to building the hardware and software of the technology products but rarely deal with the commercial and technology management information required to advance the business plan for technology transfer. Socio￾economic, organizational, and new project development information is normally prepared by personnel in the university’s technology transfer office. Using a case study methodology, this article highlights the importance and the value of the information provided by technology studies undertaken throughout the different phases of a Research Development and Innovation (R&D+i) project, until the point of technology transfer negotiations. The presented study involves the case of a Mexican public R&D institute, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).