Thinking Skills Development Program as a strategy to reduce educational failure
Abstract
Educational failure is a matter of concern for educational institutions due to the negative implications it has on the achievement of institutional objectives aimed at the development of individuals and the prosperity of countries, especially in countries like Mexico, as it has a very low average expenditure on professional training per student compared to the OECD average. The purpose of this work was to formulate a thinking skills program as a strategy to fase educational failure in a technological institute. The project was carried out with an action research methodology, a mixed approach that corresponds to a type of descriptive research, with the following phases: 1) foundation of the program based on institutional indicators; 2) program design and publication of a call for students; 3) recruitment and selection phase of students; 4) implementation of a course-workshop; and 5) results evaluation. A group of 20 students was formed as a sample for the application of diagnostic and evaluation tools and to participate in the thinking skills development course-workshop. Findings identified a significant improvement in a final course evaluation compared to a diagnostic evaluation on thinking skills topics, as well as a high level of satisfaction within the group with the course-workshop. From this, it is concluded that the strategy based on a thinking skills development program can be useful for reducing educational failure by providing students with cognitive tools to improve their academic performance, requiring further longitudinal study to empirically verify it.
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