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Background: During the educational stage, academic achievement depends on various social, family, and personal factors. Among the latter, executive skills in everyday life play a significant role in dealing with the academic demands of adolescents. Therefore, the aim of this study is to ascertain the effects of executive symptomatology in everyday functioning on academic achievement in adolescents. Method: The study involved 910 students aged between 13 and 15 years (M = 14.09, SD = 0.68) from both public and private schools in the Community of Madrid. The DEX, BDEFS-CA, and BRIEF-SR questionnaires were utilised to assess executive difficulties, while grades in language, mathematics, and natural sciences were used as a measure of academic achievement. Results: The data revealed statistically significant differences in working memory, emotional control, materials organisation, and task completion. In relation to language and natural sciences subjects. In the case of mathematics, emotional control and task completion were significant variables. Conclusion: Our results indicate that certain executive skills that are manifested in everyday life activities can contribute, albeit in a variable way, to academic achievement in the subjects studied. This aspect is relevant insofar as it allows us to develop preventive interventions based on the executive training of these everyday skills.
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El sentimiento de autoeficacia docente (SAD) es un constructo de compleja medida pero relevante por su relación con la calidad de la educación. Con este trabajo se pretende acumular evidencias de consistencia y validez para su uso en España de una versión del Teachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). Los datos proceden de un colectivo español de futuros profesores de infantil, primaria y secundaria (N = 744) y se analizan desde un enfoque multivariado adecuado para escala ordinal, mediante análisis factorial confirmatorio (ULSMV) y árboles de decisión (CHAID y CART). Tras evaluar tres modelos de medida, se aportan evidencias de validez de una estructura del constructo en tres factores y 17 ítems, con índices de ajuste aceptables. Además, se avala tanto la convergencia y consistencia del constructo, como la utilidad de los ítems para la predicción de la autoeficacia docente global en los colectivos de estudiantes de grado y de máster que componen la muestra estudiada.(AU)
Teachers sense of self-efficacy is a hard construct to measure but is important in view of to its relationship with the quality of education. This work aims to gather evidence regarding the consistency and validity of a version ofthe Teachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) for use in Spain. The data come from a Spanish group of future early-years, primary and high school teachers (N= 744), and they are analysed using a multivariate approach suitable for ordinal scales, with confirmatory factor analysis (ULSMV) and decision trees (CHAID and CART). After evaluating three measurement models, evidence for the validity of a construct structure with three factors and 17 items with acceptable fit indices is provided. In addition, the convergence and consistency of the construct are both en-dorsed, as is the usefulness of the items for predicting overall teacher self-efficacy in the groups ofundergraduate and masters students in the sam-ple studied.(AU)
