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What is Latin American? Literary perspectives for reflecting on our identity

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We published with Dr. Iram Evangelista, Dr. Erbey Mendoza Negrete and myself, an analysis of six Latin American identity traits from the perspective of four contemporary writers.

Abstract: This article presents certain Latin American traits from the works of four prestigious and contemporary Latin American writers: Gioconda Belli, Gonzalo Rojas, Augusto Monterroso y Juan José Arreola. The traits discussed include politics, the religious cult, the messianic vision, family, couples and the father figure. We argue that it is very important for people to understand their own culture and identity, to explore and not abandon the conversations about their countries’ literary works, as they reflect, report and critique them.

Full text available at Sage Publications

Recomended reference: Evangelista-Ávila, I. I., Mendoza, E., & Machin-Mastromatteo, J. D. (2019). What is Latin American? Literary perspectives for reflecting on our identity. Information Development, 35(2), 342–346. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666919828979

Tendencias en estudios de la información, comunicación e investigación

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Sent to the publisher, I’m exhausted!

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Users’ Voice for Public Libraries Strategic Planning Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

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Abstract: Given that strategic planning has traditionally worked by listening only to the voice of managers, in addition to studying their environments and functional processes, this initiative considers it fundamental to listen to the voice of the user, considering that they are the ones who truly face the conditions of the quality of library services. Therefore, the results of a user study are taken as a reference, where the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) tool was applied in public libraries in the municipality of Chihuahua, Mexico, which allowed identifying that the planning Strategic of libraries in an integral administrative system, can be sustained in the management of the quality and in the table of indicators of performance, whose implantation could be developed undera cycle of design, control, improvement and innovation to reach harmonic and systematic objectives.

Full text at Bibliotecas

Recomended reference: Romo-González, J., Tarango, J., & Machin-Mastromatteo, J. (2018). La voz del usuario en la planeación estratégica de bibliotecas públicas usando el Despliegue de la Función de la Calidad (QFD). Bibliotecas, 36(2), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.15359/rb.36-2.3

Interview: Scientific journals, publication, production and teaching

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Live at Radio Universidad’s Tips, Talks and Topics show, January 11, 2019.

List of authors UACH 2018

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According to Scopus, I am the academic with most publications for the fourth year in a row in the institution I work in (previous and current employment). Second year in a row at UACH. According to Web of Science I was number 2 in 2018.

List of authors 2018
List of authors 2018
List of authors 2018

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Accreditation Council for Educational Programs on the Humanities (COAPEHUM)

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From 27th to 30th November I was incorporated as an evaluator for the Accreditation Council for Educational Programs on the Humanities (COAPEHUM), as I conducted the evaluation of the Librarianship and Information Studies bachelor’s program at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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Tips and tricks to access and use academic databases

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One of the results from my Editing for Publication course, proud of my students! They presented a conference about the course’s topics from the English Language Bachelor Program, which they presented at the XL Humanism Week, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua.

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Publons: Peer Review Week 2018

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Within #PeerReviewWeek18, for the third year in a row, Publons has awarded my peer review work in scientific journals, as I am positioned within the 1% top reviewers in the world within my fields.

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Check it out https://publons.com/author/704567/juan-d-machin-mastromatteo#profile

Editing for publication

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My new course is in English and for Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa UACH, enroll now! Students from other bachelor programs in our Faculty are also most welcome to join, especially from Ciencias de la Información – UACH.

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Analysis of Institutional Competitiveness of Junior High Schools through the Admission Test to High School Education

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Abstract: This descriptive and correlational research studies 15,658 students from 335 secondary schools in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, through the results of the examination of admission to high school education (National High School Admission Test – EXANI I from the National Assessment Center for Education – CENEVAL) on logical-mathematical and verbal reasoning, mathematics and Spanish, comparing along the variables of sex, system (public or private), type of school of origin (there are seven types) and ranking of grades, with which, the main objective is to identify levels of institutional competitiveness. The main findings of the research were: (i) private schools, in comparison with public ones, showed percentages of more favorable grades (60.54 and 43.58 respectively); (ii) influence of the academic average of the students in the result of the examination of admission (correlation of .0403; (iii) greater competence in the area of ​​verbal reasoning (56.47) compared to logical-mathematical reasoning (55.69); and (iv) the identification of a small number of secondary schools considered as having sufficient institutional competitiveness (11 schools, equivalent to 3.28% of the total).

Full-text in Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research

This article was published in an Open Access journal!

Recommended reference: Armendáriz, J, Tarango, J., and Machin-Mastromatteo, J. D. (2018). Analysis of Institutional Competitiveness of Junior High Schools through the Admission Test to High School Education. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 7 (1), 52-60. https://doi.org/10.7821/naer.2018.1.259