Research Article | Open Access
Educational planning; Recurrent education; Teacher education curriculum
Edith Palacios-Bernuy Yolvi Ocaña-Fernández Luis Alex Valenzuela-Fernández
Pages: 396-405
Abstract
The need to train highly qualified professionals to serve the country is a pressing
reality in the Peruvian case. The reason for such lack is the absence of adequate
methodologies that promote the consolidation of investigative capacities from the
school. For this reason, this research shows the benefits of applying a novel program
(API) that enables students to develop research capabilities. A series of ten sessions
with experimental and control groups was carried out in order to evaluate the
effectiveness of the method to 46 high school students from an educational institution
in Lima. For the estimates, two validated and reliable rubrics (Scientific inquiry and
Level of development in the inquiry) were prepared (Cronbach's Alpha =, 799). The
results were estimated by t-student (p <.005), therefore it is concluded that the
developed method is effective in the development of scientific inquiry capacity.
Keywords
scientific inquiry, scientific method, critical thinking, scientific thinking.