• Teacher training model - towards a Collaborative Rubric Bank 

      Espinoza-Guzmán, Julia; Gamboa-Camacho, Pablo; Chacón-Rivas, Mario (IEEE, 2017)
      Beyond providing alternatives to build rubrics, a group of researchers in Tecnológico de Costa Rica found the need to implement best practices in the definition and validation of evaluation rubrics, to encourage the ...
    • Telework: conditions that have a positive and negative impact on the work-family conflict 

      Salazar-Solís, Martín (Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, 2016)
      Purpose – Various investigations have shed light on the positive and negative effects of telework on the work-family conflict. These effects might be related to the conditions under which telework is carried out. The ...
    • Towards adaptability: taking advantage of existing tools in a LMS 

      Leiva-Chinchilla, Pedro; Vega-Alvarado, José; Calvo-Elizondo, Andrea; Francesa-Alfaro, Agustín (2018 XIII Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO), 2018)
      Each day, users look for digital tools, smarter, usable and adaptable, that make their life easier. Learning management systems with these features, are the ones that become more valuable for those who use them, but ...
    • Upper extremity musculoskeletal pain among office workers in three Spanish-speaking countries: findings from the CUPID study 

      Campos-Fumero, Adriana; Delclos, George; Douphrate, David; Felknor, Sarah; Vargas-Prada, Sergio; Serra, Consol; Coggon, David; Ruiz-De Porras, David Gimeno (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2016)
      Objectives To estimate the prevalence and incidence of upper extremity musculoskeletal pain (UEMP) and related disability among office workers in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Spain. Methods Data from the multinational ...
    • Upregulation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR, FABP5 and PPARβ/δ in human psoriasis and imiquimodinduced murine psoriasiform dermatitis model 

      Christopher-Chamcheu, Jean; Siddiqui, Imtiaz; Mukhtar, Hasan; Chaves-Rodríguez, María Inés (Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2016)
      Psoriasis is a common, and currently incurable chronic immune-mediated skin disease, with incompletely understood etiology partially due to the unavailability of animal models that can emulate major features of the disease.
    • User-friendly Instructional Design Tool to Facilitate Course Planning 

      Francesa-Alfaro, Agustín; Leiva-Chinchilla, Pedro; Chacón-Rivas, Mario; Garita-Rodríguez, César (LACLO 2016, 2016)
      Plan and take into account the whole picture of the course before it starts, must be a prerequisite for the instructors. At the Tecnol´ogico de Costa Rica, a problem related to course planning has been identified; it is ...