Developing teaching strategies for the acquisition of research competences in eighth graders of the Educational Research and Innovation Center

Abstract

This article shows the results of the intervention carried out in the eighth grade of Basic Education of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CIIE) of the Universidad Pedagógica Francisco Morazán (UPNFM) where, through a Non-Experimental Design (pretest and posttest) Implemented several didactic strategies in Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, to develop research competences in students, the results of the Anova applied in the Postest evidenced that there were no statistically significant differences between the control and experimental groups, however, it allowed to identify that The eighth grade students, first possess attitudinal competences, second, procedural and finally, conceptual competences. The research opens the possibility of continuing to investigate diverse classroom conditions, teachers, educational center and intervention time to achieve significant differences in results.