CAAP-AP: UN CUESTIONARIO PARA EVALUAR LA PRÁCTICA DOCENTE A FAVOR DE LA ATENCIÓN Y PLANIFICACIÓN EN EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL

Abstract

In this stuydy CAAP-AP (Questionnaire about Learning Environments as performance enhancers of attention and planning) is presented as an instrument to analyze how teachers working in Early Childhood Education cognitive processes of attention and planning in 5-6 years old students, ages when begin to emerge a cognition, that can be taught and improved. The method used for its construction and the step from version to instrument was the Delphi technique with thirteen experts in Early Childhood Education and a pilot study with ten teachers of the last course of this educational level. The procedures in its construction are detailed; the variables and aspects that collects; changes and modifications in the areas of presentation, application, format and theme; and the description of each of its dimensions, physical functional, temporal and relational. The validation and reliabity process are presented too, in order to show its adequacy found through those techniques and a Cronbach's alpha of .96. We present an analysis tool that determines the importance attributed to both processes, what types of attentional and planning activities are developed and the level of interaction between agents and the time taken to work on those skills. We conclude with a valid instrument to respond to the use of environment for these processes, that would respond to an analysis of this enhancer and in order to help in teachers training and development about learning to learn.