Design of a Survey Instrument to Evaluate Metalinguistic Skills in Middle Basic Education

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the influence of a formative methodological proposal in the development of critical thinking skills in students of the VI cycle of the Professional School of Secondary Education of the National University of Santa, in the course History of Ancient Peru, through applied research, with a quantitative approach, pre-experimental design -with pre and post test- and with ethnographic, systemic and hypothetical-deductive methods, in a census sample of 21 students; using the survey technique through the questionnaire to collect the research data, which were analyzed descriptively, for the arithmetic mean, and inferentially -the Student t test- to contrast the hypothesis, using the SPSSv25 software for it. The results revealed an increase in the overall average from 85.7% of students at the poor level of the pre-test to 95% at the very good level of the post-test, a statistically significant difference, demonstrated by the calculated t0 value = 76.2541, higher than the tabular value (t) of 1.725, which allowed us to conclude that the proposal favors the development of critical thinking in university contexts, reinforcing key competencies for teacher training and encouraging pedagogical practices focused on the critical construction of knowledge.