Listar por autor "Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar David"
Mostrando ítems 21-40 de 63
-
Evaluating the potential trade-off between students’ satisfaction and school performance using multiobjective programming
In this article, we carry out a combined econometric and multiobjective analysis using data from a representative sample of Andalusian schools. In particular, four econometric models are estimated in which the students’ ... -
Financial illiteracy in Spain: a structural problem
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Molina Marfil, José Antonio (2019-01-29)
Financial education in Spain has been traditionally a forgotten subject. Nevertheless, recent economic problems, as the economic crisis, have put into focus the lack of financial literacy that Spanish population presents. ... -
Gender differences between teachers’ assessments and test based assessments. Evidence from Spain
Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar David; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Sánchez-Rodríguez, María Isabel (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD, 2023)
We study the existence of a gender gap between two methods of grading student achievement in Spain, namely teachers’ assessment which measures cognitive outcomes and standardised test scores, which are consistent across ... -
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. ... -
Grade retention in Spain: the right way?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (Springer Heidelberg, 2023-10-23)
There is a wide debate on the convenience of grade retention for students’ future cognitive development. Nevertheless, due to the endogenous characteristics of grade retention to explain students’ academic performance, ... -
How to make parents happy with the school and teachers?
Jerrim, John; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2022)
Parental satisfaction with their children’s school and teachers have been extensively analysed in the literature. However, most research works do not agree in the set of factors which define this parental satisfaction. ... -
How to reach compromises in life satisfaction: a conflicting and multidimensional task
Oliveira Henriques, Carla; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Luque-Gallego, Mariano (2019-07-10)
Recent concerns around the importance of job and life satisfaction on firms’ productivity have been brought to the policy debate in the European Union. Irrespective of the numerous scientific publications that have been ... -
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 ... -
Implementing interval programming techniques to the optimal design of socioeconomic policies
(UMA Editorial, 2021-02-09)l Capítulo I proporciona una descripción de los principales conceptos teóricos y los supuestos subyacentes relacionados con el enfoque metodológico que se utilizará para obtener soluciones robustas para los modelos descritos ... -
Influence of body mass index on health complains and life satisfaction
Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (Springer Nature, 2023-12-01)
Purpose This research work investigates the influence of children’s weight status on well-being and school context in a sample of Spanish adolescences. Methods The Spanish records from the 2013–14 Health Behaviour in ... -
International evidence on the influence of kindergarten on students’ later competences.
Parents have the option to enrol their children in kindergarten education (from 0 to 3 years) in many countries, although not all parents decide to do it, so their children are enrolled when they are between 3 to 5, or ... -
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, ... -
Is grade retention the solution for failing?
The convenience of grade retention for students’ adequate progression in the education system has been the focus of great debate. However, the characteristics that the grade retention variable presents when explaining ... -
Is homework the solution to low academic performance?
Parental associations have long held the view that Spanish elementary school pupils spend too much time undertaking homework. This situation is so alarming that it has recently (2016) caused a ‘homework strike’, which has ... -
More class time, better achievement?
López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David (2017-02-06)
Spanish press has widely criticized the fact that students spend almost their whole day at school, a practice rooted in the common belief that higher instruction time enhances students’ learning. However, in spite of this ... -
On the trade-offs between hard and soft-skills skills: the Spanish case
Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Henriques, Carla Oliveira (2022-07-01)
The increasing relevance of non-cognitive skills (i.e., soft skills) for individual development and socioeconomic growth, and the well-established importance of cognitive skills in explaining socioeconomic success, ... -
On the use of preference-based evolutionary multi-objective optimization for solving a credibilistic portfolio selection model
The portfolio selection problem tries to identify the assets to allocate the capital, and the proportion to be devoted to each asset, for maximizing the returns at the minimum risk. By nature, this is a multi-objective ... -
On the use of Synthetic Indexes Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making to Study the Efficiency of Teachers
Ruiz-Mora, Ana Belén; Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David; Luque-Gallego, Mariano (Springer, 2022)
Efficiency in education constitutes a dimension of the quality of education and gaining knowledge about the teachers’ efficiency can contribute to improving the learning achieve- ment of students. The main purpose of this ... -
Parents' and Children's Gender: the effect of parental expectations in children's performance
Parental expectations have been found in the literature to explain their children’s academic achievement. Nevertheless, most of the evidence on this issue is the result of the endogeneity of parental expectations when ... -
Parents’ and students’ gender-interaction: the effect of parental expectations
The study of the effect on students’ academic achievement of their parents’ expectations has been widely explored; nevertheless, most of the existing evidence for the Spanish case is purely correlational and subject to ...