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Santo Domingo. – The Ministry of Education (Minerd) and the Dominican Institute of Evaluation and Research of Educational Quality (Ideice) presented this Friday the training advances in research achieved by 29 students from Gran Santo Domingo who are part of the program “School Seedbeds of Research in Secondary Education”. This pilot initiative is aimed at strengthening the scientific culture in the country's educational centers.
During the activity, the authorities also highlighted the development of installed capacities at the Salesian Polytechnic Padre Bartolomé Vegh (IPSPBV), of the Educational Regional 15 and the Fabio Amable Mota Technological Institute (ITFAM), of Regional 10, to promote school research processes in a more systematic way.
Likewise, students showcased, at the facilities of the IPSPBV, the progress of eight ongoing research projects; after six months of implementing the program in coordination with the Directorate of Technical-Professional Education of Minerd.
In that sense, Dr. Jesús Andújar Avilés, executive director of Ideice, highlighted that the students, during this process, achieved the identification of problematic situations in their environment, the formulation of research questions, the delimitation of study topics and advances in the construction of pre-projects with a solid methodological structure.
He emphasized that the concrete advances in his research proposals reflect a first exercise of critical observation of the environment and understanding of research as a tool for the analysis of real situations and to propose solutions based on evidence.
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Similarly, he highlighted the participation of the tutor teachers, who have accompanied the formative and methodological process of the students as another important advance of the first stage of the program managed by the Research department of Ideice, headed by professor Adrián Gutiérrez and the coordination of the researcher Anny Vásquez. He highlighted that this involvement of teachers has allowed research to begin to establish itself as a pedagogical practice within the aforementioned centers, not only as an extracurricular activity, but as a strategy to strengthen learning, promote critical thinking and strengthen cross-cutting competencies. Andújar Avilés highlighted, as another achievement, the consolidation of a collaborative work dynamic between students, teachers, educational centers, the Technical-Professional direction of the Minerd and Ideice, as well as an articulation of institutional efforts to accompany the development of scientific competence in the secondary level. “The seedbed has contributed to students understanding that research is not an activity reserved exclusively for experts, but a tool that can be used from school to understand specific problems and generate proposals for improvement,” said the director of Ideice.To the weighting of the progress made, the teacher Cristhian Quéliz, director of Technical-Professional Education of the Minerd, was added, after considering the program that promotes research as an active learning tool and development of critical thinking.
From their side, Juan Yoardy, director of the Padre Bartolomé Vegh Salesian Polytechnic Institute, thanked for the choice of this center for the activity, while Antonio Duval, director of the Fabio Amable Mota Technological Institute, expressed the institutional value that this program represents for the students. Research Project Presentations The activity's agenda included the presentation of the eight projects developed by the students as a result of the school research seedbeds in secondary education. There are three projects, corresponding to the ITFAM seed team, linked to the following topics: Road safety in the school environment: impact of an educational intervention at ITFAM; Recycling culture as a strategy to improve the environment of ITFAM recreational spaces and, Relationship between the conditions of the spaces of study and the academic performance in second cycle secondary school students. While the IPSPBV seed teams socialized their five proposals related to: academic saturation in Technical-Professional Education: effects on student performance; Perspective of the school community on the impact of 4% of GDP allocated to educational quality and student motivation in the 4th year of electricity in secondary school. Similarly, the boost to the effective implementation of the Ministry of Education's teaching sequence in Technical-Professional: a proposal for intervention and Transition from 3rd to 4th grade of secondary school in technical-professional education. The activity was attended by Father José Pastor Ramírez, inspector of the Antilles and president of the Salesian Don Bosco Foundation, and included the presentation of recognitions, and the words of thanks from the seed student, Julianny Mañón, from the Padre Bartolome Vegh Salesian Polytechnic Institute, who, representing her classmates, thanked for the opportunity to access the program, which will develop new skills for their future professional training and lays the foundations for the future researchers of the Dominican educational system.You can also read: Silverio and Minerd address educational innovation, university basic cycle and training of teachers in the pre-university system
About Ideice
The Dominican Institute for the Evaluation and Research of Educational Quality (Ideice) is the first public institution in the country with a technical character that is entirely dedicated to the evaluation and research of educational quality and to the proactive dissemination of findings for the continuous improvement of the Dominican educational system. It is a decentralized institution of the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic whose mission is to contribute to ensuring the quality of the pre-university education system of the Dominican Republic through evaluations and educational research. It was created on June 25, 2008.
