Contributions to the teaching of comprehension in primary education: strengthening teaching capacities

Abstract

Cuba has participated in three studies conducted by the Latin American Laboratory for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education (LLECE), with the aim of assessing the quality of education in Latin American and Caribbean countries and, in doing so, identifying factors associated with learning achievement. The results of these studies describe what our students know and are able to do based on the curriculum. In the third study, our country was immersed in the process of the Third Improvement of the National Education System, which served as a valuable opportunity to access other inputs and tools that contributed to the development of the new curriculum materials and work methods that were implemented. The integration of the strengths of the two studies contributes to raising the quality of education in the country. The objective of this paper is to provide proposals for pedagogical practices to address the main learning problems identified in students' text comprehension in third and sixth grade Primary Education in the ERCE (Spanish acronym for the Spanish acronym) and the results of the third year's advanced level tests, which coincide. These proposals serve as tools for strengthening teaching capacities by providing this important group with guidance that allows them to improve their classroom teaching practices in the comprehension process. This is part of the research being conducted for the doctoral thesis "The Text Comprehension Process: A Didactic Concept for its Treatment in Primary Education."