Evaluation to teachers in the Mathematical competences of Media Education, Juigalpa 2014

Abstract

This article was the result of a diagnostic that was obtained by applying a math test, which consisted of the admission test for new students of the year 2014 that the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (Managua) applies. We used a sample of twenty teachers from the municipality of Juigalpa, Chontales who voluntarily applied the test. The discrimination analysis was done to each of the items that made up the test, as well as the entire test. Parallel to the quantitative analysis, a series of problems were identified in resolving the test through a qualitative analysis of each of the exercises. The results showed that secondary teachers in the municipality of Juigalpa presents difficulties in resolving the exercises that are evaluated in the admission test of the UNAN-Managua. The study areas that are most affected in the test were: Euclidean geometry, logarithms, set theory, statistics, real functions and trigonometry. Therefore, based on the results, it is recommended to establish a strategy of working together UNAN-Managua and the Ministry of Education to strengthen the teacher’s competence in order to benefit secondary students for future admissions tests.