PhD. Katherine Salvador
Coordinadora Regional Costa
Katherine Salvador Cisneros holds a Ph.D. degree in Education from Trinity College Dublin, after the successful completion of her doctoral study under the supervision of Dr. David Limond. She currently teaches at the ESPOL Polytechnic University in her home country, Ecuador, where she is also a researcher and coordinator of educational research of the Center of Educational Research and Services (CISE acronyms in Spanish). Katherine acts as the Coast region coordinator of the Ecuadorian Association for the Promotion of Educational Research (AsEFIE acronyms in Spanish).
Her research interests are
- Higher education;
- International students in HEIs, gender in education;
- Second language acquisition;
- Success in HEIs;
- Reflective professional practice;
- Critical thinking;
- Special education needs;
- Voices in education;
- Applied comics;
- Communicating research in the humanities;
- Innovation in education.
Publications:
- Salvador Cisneros, K., Serrano Ochoa, M., Bolaños Mendoza, C., & Cedeño Padilla, R. (2020). Estrategia de capacitación de formadores en temas de virtualidad en tiempos de distanciamiento social: caso Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral. In CACES, Memorias del encuentro Academia Online (1st ed., pp. 44-50). CACES.
- Salvador Cisneros, K., (2015) Influence of L2 Extensive Reading Intervention on Undergraduate Students: An Action Research, EDULEARN15 Proceedings, pp. 6469-6478.
- Salvador, K. (2012) Applying principles of adult learning in a higher education setting: reflections on my experience with the andragogy theory and practice, INTED2012 Proceedings, pp. 3666-3673
- Flores, J., Salvador, K. (2009) Promoting New Information Technology in Teaching: Methodology for Evaluating Learning Tools Implemented in Higher Education Settings, INTED2009 Proceedings, pp. 192-200.