Listar por autor "Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María"
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Essays on Economics of Education: the role of kindergarten, ICT and soft-skills.
(UMA Editorial, 2024)Esta tesis doctoral analiza los factores causales que inciden en el rendimiento académico durante las distintas etapas del proceso educativo. Partiendo de la educación prescolar, y teniendo en cuenta que las habilidades ... -
Evaluating the efficiency of primary schools in Canary Islands: A Three-Stage SBM Approach.
Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; Oliveira Henriques, Carla; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2023)
Education, as a process of human capital accumulation, is essential for a society’s economic growth. Given its relevance and bearing in mind that public spending is not exclusively devoted to financing the education ... -
Grade retention and academic performance: a difficult relationship?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022-06)
The education debate in Spain has widely discussed the positive and negative features of grade retention on students’ academic performance but, in spite of its relevance, this impact has not been assessed beyond correlation. ... -
Ideal Internet usage and academic achievement: finding the right balance
Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022-07)
Younger generations have grown up with the Internet. Far from being a purely information search engine, the Internet has become fully integrated into the way children live and learn today. It has changed the way children ... -
Internet use and academic performance: An interval approach
Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (Springer, 2022-05-21)
As children spend more and more time on electronic devices and social networks, there is a growing concern about the infuence that these activities may have on their development and social well-being. In this context, ... -
Short-sighted or short of money: the influence of vision problems on academic performance.
Jerrim, John; Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2023)
Education plays an important role in poverty reduction, as it fosters economic growth and social development, as well as ensuring the well-being of children. In this context and taking into account that developing countries ...