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Authors: Cemarlis Mariana Blanco-Solórzano

The work’s objective was to study the strategies used by teachers for teaching multiplication in Primary Education students. This research assumes the field modality supported by the documentary review, descriptive level, under the quantitative approach, with a non-experimental design. The population was constituted for 4th 5th and 6th grade student of the Subsistema de Educación Primaria in the Escuela Básica “Joaquín Crespo” of San Juan de los Morros (Guárico state, Venezuela). Data collection was a result of direct observation and interview. The information analysis techniques were the categorization and triangulation, as a result, of the observation and the application test. In addition, the diagnosis of the observations showed that teachers continue works with a traditional teaching of the multiplication. They neglect the application of strategies that lead the student to achieve knowledge acquisition. In conclusion, the cognitive processes categories, interactivity and participation should be strengthened as fundamental aspects in the development of creative strategies, in orden to adequate adaptation of the knowledge of the multiplication process.

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Authors: Brígida Siolet Rangel de Montero

The study of different school realities and the readjustment of research methodologies in the subject of evaluation have long gained strength as a perspective that seeks to improve the teaching practice, its effects and results, in learning and its evaluation. Therefore, this research was intended to generate a systematization of qualitative evaluation from the perspective of teachers at the basic level. Methodologically the qualitative approach was followed, with the ethnographic method. Three teachers of the basic level were selected as key informants. In addition, the participant observation and in-depth interview were used as techniques. For the analysis, categorization, structuring and triangulation were applied. Regarding the findings, the divorce between the new evaluation paradigms and the old quantitative and instrumentalist ways of learning and the students ́ knowledge could be revealed. Finally, the findings revealed that implementation of the new Diseño Curricular del Sistema Educativo Bolivariano is an educational policies interpretation in orden to respond to the political-social model. In conclusion, to understand that the evaluation in this design is conceived in an integral way and varies according to its educational level. Therefore, Inicial y Primaria Bolivariana will be qualitative according to the advances and achievements.

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Authors: Nury Puentes

In recent years, Venezuelan education has been highly criticized, either by the methods used by the teacher to teach or the way he learns and the way the student is perceived in society. Hence, this research was intended to understand the gnoseological vision of teacher planning by areas of knowledge in the U.E.N. “Maestro Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa” in Aragua state Girardot Municipality (Venezuela). Methodologically, it was supported by post-positivist epistemology, with a qualitative approach and the dialectical hermeneutical method. We worked with five institutions’ teachers. The survey was used with the modality of the in-depth interview for the collection of the information. The categorization, structuring and triangulation were applied. As the results, the informants agreed that planning by areas of knowledge is a good way to organize learning, but that they lack much to learn, since they have weaknesses in making the integration. In conclusion, it was revealed that teachers have an episteme in relation to theory, but do not put into practice what they know.