CONTACT INFORMATION

WEBSITE PhD in Didactic of the Experimental Sciences 

Academic Comission

PhD Coordinator : Antonio de Pro Bueno (Universidad de Murcia)

University of Alicante coordinator: Mª Asunción Menargues Marcilla

Secretary of the Academic Committee of the University of Alicante: Rubén Limiñana Morcillo

Quality coordinator: Mª Asunción Menargues Marcilla

Proposing body:

Departamento de Didáctica General y Didácticas Específicas

ddgde@ua.es

Doctoral School:

EIDUA-University of Alicante International Doctoral School

Location: Multipurpose Building II (Codi SIGUA 0022PB001)

Telephone number 965 90 3466 

Contact EIDUA

BASIC

CB11 - Systematic comprehension of a field of study and mastery of the skills and research methods related to said field.

CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process. 

CB13 - Ability to contribute to the expansion of knowledge barriers through original research. 

CB14 - Ability to carry out a critical and evaluative analysis and synthesize new and complex ideas. 

CB15 - Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community as well as society in general regarding your fields of knowledge in the modes and languages used normally in your international scientific community. 

CB16 - Ability to foment scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances within a knowledge-based society in academic and professional contexts. 

PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

CA01 - To cope with contexts in which there is little specific information. 

CA02 - To find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.

CA03 - To design, create, develop and carry out innovating projects in your field of knowledge.

CA04 - To be able to work as a team and as an individual in an international and multidisciplinary context.

CA05 - To process knowledge, cope with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.

CA06 - To criticise and defend solutions intellectually.

OTRAS COMPETENCIAS

CE01 -Capacidad para diseñar y elaborar proyectos de investigación relacionados con la Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales.

CE02 -Capacidad para identificar y seleccionar los problemas específicos de una investigación, localizar sus antecedentes y explicitar el marco teórico que lo sustenta.

CE03 -Capacidad para aplicar una metodología adecuada (diseño, participantes e informants, contexto, herramientas, las estrategias y los procesos de recogida de información) para la resolución de los problemas planteados.

CE05 -Capacidad para comunicar los hallazgos a otros especialistas de la misma o distinta rama de conocimiento y a la sociedad en general.

CE06 - Contribuir al desarrollo metodológico y conceptual de la Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales dentro de una sociedad basada en el conocimiento y en el respeto a los derechos fundamentales; en la igualdad de oportunidades; en la defensa de la salud y bienestar para todos y de un desarrollo y consumo sostenible; en los principios de accesibilidad universal de las personas a la Educación; y en los valores propios de una cultura de paz y valores democráticos.

CE04 - Capacidad para recoger, analizar, sintetizar y evaluar la información recogida y establecer conclusiones coherentes con los resultados encontrados.

Common compulsory transversal training activities (UA)

All students will have to do a series of transversal activities; some are common to all doctoral programs whereas others are specific to each individual program.

The vehicular languages will be Spanish and Valencian.

The activities are the following:

• ACTIVITY 1: Tools for the management and recovery of information.
• ACTIVITY 2: Goals and objectives of research.
• ACTIVITY 3: Scientific communication models.
• ACTIVITY 4: Transfer of knowledge models.

Specific training activities

Specific compulsory activities

Research lines

Line 1: Research in teacher training from the perspective of the didactics of experimental sciences

Line 2: Design, implementation and evaluation of proposals for teaching and learning experimental sciences

Researchers

• Joaquín Martínez Torregrosa 
• Mª Asunción Menargues Marcilla
• Rubén Limiñana Morcillo 
• Sergio Rosa Cintas
• Juan Francisco Álvarez-Herrero

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

1. To be admitted in a doctoral program at the University of Alicante, it is necessary to fill in an electronic pre-registration form, available annually on the EDUA website.

2. Before starting the pre-registration process, it is advisable to consult the website of the chosen doctoral program in order to know the admission requirements demanded by the program.

3. The Academic Commissions (AC) are in charge of the admission process in the different doctoral programs.

4. The academic commissions decide annually the offer of places in every doctoral program according to the preconditions established in its Verified Memory. The commission may determine not to offer places when not having directors or tutors at any research line.

5. If the resolution is of “no admission”, in the computer application the reasons for the same will be detailed, having a calendar month to formulate an appeal before the AC; from the date of the resolution.

ACCESS PROCEDURE

1. In parallel with the admission process carried out by the AC, the Doctoral School (EDUA) verifies that the documentation provided is the one requested in the pre-registration form.

2. Applicants with higher studies attained in countries different from the EHEA*, at the moment of pre-registration process should pay an administrative fee for the study of their documentation, (equivalence study). The price of the rate is fixed annually by the Government of the Generalitat Valencia, by Decree.

3. People who do not provide the documentation in the terms required in the access process, may rectify this incident within 15 calendar days, from EDUA communication or, exceptionally, within the period determined by EDUA according to the concurrent circumstances.

4. When the incidents detected have not been resolved in the form and time determined by EDUA, the originated file academic record will be closed, without further processing.

5. The Doctorate School will proceed to open academic records to those who have been admitted by the AC and have correctly provided the required documentation, sending them an email with instructions to complete the enrolment process.

When the result is "no admission" it is possible to consult the grounds in the available electronic application. It is possible to raise administrative appeal (recurso de alzada) against AC resolution, within a month since resolution date.

*EHEA: European High Education Area

Registered in the Record of Universities, Centres and Degrees (RUCT)

Authoritation Comunidad Valenciana:

Published BOE

REGULATION

Real Decreto 576/2023, de 4 de julio, que modifica el Real Decreto 99/2011,de 28 de enero, por el que se regulan las enseñanzas oficiales de doctorado (BOE de 18 de julio de 2023

Royal Decree 99/2011, January 28, which regulates official doctoral degrees (Official State bulletin February 10 2011)

COMPLETE REGULATIONS

• Verified Report
• Resolution from de Univerties Council. Positive verification
• Authoritation from de Valencian Government

Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIC) of the Degree

Structure of the Centre for Quality

Comission of Internal Quality Guarantee

Other Commissions

• SGIC Handbook
• Procedures
  • Strategic (PE)
  • Key (PC)
  • Support (PA)
  • Measurement (PM)
  Management of the SGIC (Acces to ASTUA)

Degree monitoring

• Self-reports UA
• AVAP External reports
• Other reports
• Improvement plans
• Progress and learning outcomes