Instrumentos de evaluación y su incidencia en el rendimiento académico, estudios sociales, básica media, Escuela Isabel la Católica, Machala, 2024 - 2025

Abstract

In the current context of education, the work seeks to determine the incidence of the evaluation instruments of each of the students who belong to the Isabel La Católica educational establishment over the course of the period 2024-2025, discerning those that they currently use in Social Studies, academic performance indicators and instruments that must be promoted in classrooms so that school performance is truly the result of a very well executed learning evaluation. To achieve the research purposes of the study, the selected sample is made up of 140 students who are 96% of the sample percentage and 5 teachers who reflect 4% of it; forming in this sense, research units that will be addressed contemplating a mixed approach where qualitative and quantitative techniques were considered transcendental for the compilation of realities based on measurement and observation instruments, among which are: surveys, interviews and observation guide according to a series of related indicators. The results of the process indicate that usually the instruments that teachers use in Social Studies are objective tests that seek an objective measurement, emphasizing the theoretical dimension of learning, which is why objective academic performances are distinguished. Faced with this, the curricular elements are conceived as a structural part of the teaching-learning process, which are established in an interconnected manner and must be taken into account for the selection of evaluation instruments in order to recognize the comprehensive academic performance of the students. Thus establishing the need to implement instruments such as class diaries, oral and written tests, which contribute to the development of a comprehensive evaluation in Social Studies.