Dr. Carlos Ramos:<br />
Just a gentle reminder of our request for your review of the submission, &quot;Validation of the Scale to Evaluate the Quality of Teaching Mediation in University Context,&quot; for Interamerican Journal of Psychology. We were hoping to have your response by 2019-07-17, and this email has been automatically generated and sent with the passing of that date.
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I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.<br />
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The review itself is due 2019-08-07.<br />
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Submission URL: <a href='https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission?submissionId=1061&reviewId=570&key=wdNTAK' class='submissionReviewUrl-style-class'>https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission?submissionId=1061&reviewId=570&key=wdNTAK</a><br />
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Thank you for considering this request.<br />
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Fernando Andres Polanco
Interamerican Journal of Psychology<br />
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&quot;Validation of the Scale to Evaluate the Quality of Teaching Mediation in University Context&quot;<br />
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In Reuven Feuerstein's Cognitive Structural Modifiability Theory, 12 dimensions characterize teacher mediation, four of them are universal: <em>intentionality and reciprocity</em>; <em>transcendence</em>; <em>meaning</em>; <em>awareness of modifiability</em>. To validate the instrument aimed at evaluating the quality of teaching mediation, a sample of 531 undergraduates from 12 undergraduate courses, whose average age was 22.5 years (standard deviation 3.6 years), with a gender predominance (n = 309 or 58.2%) and the majority came from baccalaureate (n = 359 or 67.6%). The results showed a factorial structure in which the 26 assertions of the instrument were grouped into the four universal factors, with very high indexes of validity (self-values between 1.33 and 9.14, explained variance between 5.13% and 35.15 %) and reliability (Cronbach's alphas between 0.71 and 0.91). The analysis of Variance (ANOVA) detected significant differences in the quality of teacher mediation of the courses in the areas of Human Sciences, Health Sciences and Technology in three of the universal factors (F = 12.96; p &lt; 0.001 - Factor intentionality and reciprocity; F = 5.42, p &lt; 0.001 - Factor transcendence, F = 13.40, p &lt; 0.001 - Factor awareness of the modifiability). It is concluded that the instrument has a high degree of confidence and validity, and can be used to evaluate the quality of teacher mediation in a university environment.<br/>The following message is being delivered on behalf of Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
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