Evaluación de Competencias Informacionales en la Educación Chilena

Resumen

Within the complexity of the Information Society, which is constantly mediated the impact of information and communications technology, demand for the incorporation of key competencies educational processes, which highlights the information skills, which are related to the processing of information in a virtual context and the competence of digital processing. From this aspect, the formation of students from the first teaching cycles becomes important. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an educational intervention in a blearning context for training in informational skills at the primary level of education. In this way, a pre-experimental design with pre-test and post-test was applied to a sample of 328 elementary students in Chile, in the sector of the Province of Maipo. The data collection began with a validated instrument for evaluating performance in the four dimensions of information competencies. After checking the previous assumptions of normality and homoscedasticity, the corresponding statistical tests were applied in the data analysis. The results establish an increase in the learning of informational competences based on the application of the educational intervention.