Exelearning: Recurso digital de una estrategia didáctica de ensañanza-aprendizaje de matemática

Abstract

The didactic of Mathematics, in its constant search to improve teaching-learning processes, has linked educational technological tools, as support resources or teaching strategies to ensure effective learning of students. With this project it was proposed to determine if the use of free educational software eXe-Learning contributes to improve the academic performance of the students of Mathematics of the first level of the School of Systems of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Esmeraldas Campus. With a constructivist approach, the didactic strategy was outlined which was applied, as a pilot test, to a population of 26 students divided randomly into two groups. The investigation was of experimental type with post-test design with control group, randomization guaranteed the comparability of the groups; the hypothetic-deductive reasoning was applied with a quantitative methodology for the management of the data generated by the evaluations. The results obtained, applying the Student’s T test, showed that the mean (0.8808) of the test scores applied to the students of the experimental group is higher than the average (0.4962) of the scores applied to the students. of the control group; This significant difference is not a product of chance and implies that a didactic teaching strategy supported by eXe-Learning contributes to improving the academic performance of students.