Introduction. Fundamental aspects of the curriculum and arguments about competencies, learning standards and their evaluation, serve as the basis for the transformation of evaluation in the educational context. Objective. To describe the evaluation process of the learning standards in the students of the Technical Baccalaureate of the Playa Prieta Technical College, Manabí, Ecuador, period 2020-2021. Methodology. The study had a mixed and cross-sectional approach, descriptive scope. A questionnaire was applied to teachers and students and the formative evaluation process carried out by teachers was observed. The population was made up of 9 teachers and 78 Technical Baccalaureate students from the Playa Prieta Technical College (37 from the Agricultural Production professional figure and 41 from Secretariat Management). Results. Planning of activities according to learning standards; communication of evaluation criteria of learning standards to parents and students; application of diagnostic evaluation methodologies and instruments; no adjustments are made to teaching practices based on assessment results. Conclusions. Educational evaluation is a complex and multifactorial process that must be valid and reliable and plays a fundamental role both as a component of Didactics and as a benchmark for the Curriculum. The fundamental guidelines of this evaluation object of analysis are erected in a non-eclectic way on exogenous curricular and endogenous competency pillars in a methodological continuum that makes it comprehensive and holistic.

In recent times, reading acquires a fundamental role in Basic General Education by contributing to the development of skills, communication skills, and decision-making skills, aspects that reinforce the written and spoken language, therefore, it is proposes to analyze the incidence of the active methodology to improve the reading process through Lev Vygotsky's approach in the sixth year students of the Totoras Educational Unit. In the investigation, the mixed orientation was applied, the design was non-experimental, the bibliographic documentary research, exploratory and correlational field, the sample included 15 students, while the interview was conducted with a psychopedagogue to strengthen the experience; Using the SPSS statistical program, Cronbach's Alpha 0.82 was obtained with 9 elements, obtaining acceptable consistency. In calculating the hypothesis, the logical model was adopted, with the decision to reject the null hypothesis. According to the results found in the arithmetic mean, it is concluded that a podcast should be made to deepen the knowledge of the problems that affect the pedagogical work, the purpose is to encourage the infants to understand concepts, vocabulary, spelling , expression, autonomy, reading skills, and the construction of verbal thought.

Introduction. The present research is based on the context of ground transportation in the city of Cuenca - Ecuador. It is interested in the user of the services of vehicular registry satisfaction and the possible associations that could be related to them. Objective. The objective of the proposed analysis is to correlate the research variables deviated from the theoretical framework with the ground transportation registry users through the applied research to the deviation of an improvement plan. Methodology. The research is quantitative, exploratory, descriptive, and correlational. The analysis starts from the finite sample of 101897 investigation subjects. It studies 130 subjects through a validated instrument by expert’s judgment and with Cronbach’s Alpha of 0,976 which generates high trust in the reading. The research is not probabilistic and intentional. Results. The exploration shows that the quality of the service, user expectations, and effective communication are strongly correlated with vehicular registry user satisfaction. Conclusion. It concludes that the Decentralized Autonomous Governments which have Transit and Ground transportation dependencies must observe the results obtained in the present research to make efficient the resources and allow to generate improvement plans to establish aligned strategies to give value to their management models.

Introduction. The Jardín Azuayo Savings and Loan Cooperative has a digital platform through its web page where different transactions can be carried out with the purpose of innovating the way of offering its services. Objective. To determine the quality and performance as elements that contribute to the efficiency of the Jardín Azuayo virtual platform within the Cuenca-Ecuador territory. Methodology. A quantitative, exploratory, descriptive and correlational research methodology was used in a finite population of 80,000 members belonging to the Jardín Azuayo Savings and Credit Cooperative that use the Jardín Azuayo virtual platform in the Cuenca-Ecuador territory, where 102 subjects were studied by means of an instrument validated by experts and with a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.966. The study is non-probabilistic and intentional. Results. Quality and performance are key factors that contribute significantly to the efficiency of the platform. Conclusion. As a result, an optimal means of attention to the financial services of the institution's members was obtained.

The low academic performance of students worldwide is affected by different factors and situations that affect students and influence their daily lives, the responsibility for determining them not only falls on the teaching staff, but also on parents or representatives. Legal and the same students. The objective was to examine the factors that cause poor academic performance in high school students. The research is descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative. It was determined that the personal components, selection of relevant information 35%, with respect to the school components, in a percentage of 54% they always carry out the tasks alone, 50% always understand the classes, 58% believe that it is very understandable the subject taught, emotional factors determine that there is 31% who sometimes have difficulty doing their homework, 27% sometimes have difficulty sleeping, 27% almost always feel anxious, sometimes 27% feel depressed, 35% feel that their life has no relevance at times and 38% almost always feel nervous before handing in an assignment or exam.

The present study aims to analyze the way in which gamification influences as a support strategy for the reading-writing process. Gamification is a teaching method that uses techniques such as games to help the understanding of various topics. An observation was made in a reading-writing class before and after gamification. The population was 34 students of the second grade of Unidad Educativa "Juan Bautista Vásquez". It was found that prior to gamification, students do not pay much attention to reading and writing. Gamification promoted their attention to reading and writing. These results support the results of many other studies that assert the benefits of gamification in the classroom. It is concluded that the students grasp the knowledge better when they are made to participate in the dynamics that are presented to them.

This paper addresses the issue of the use of virtual laboratories for the educational process. The objective of the research focuses on determining the incidence of the use of virtual laboratories for the teaching-learning process of chemistry in second-year high school students of the Isabel Moscoso Dávila Educational Unit. From the methodological point of view, the research has a quantitative approach. Similarly, the study design is quasi-experimental, aimed at a sample of 60 students divided into two groups; group A corresponding to the experimental group where the virtual laboratories were applied for the chemistry class and group B corresponds to the control group. The results obtained demonstrate from statistics, the incidence of the use of virtual laboratories for the teaching-learning process of chemistry in the second year of high school students of the Isabel Moscoso Dávila Educational Unit, taking into account that the value of p = 0.000 which represents that the satisfaction means of the experimental group

In the present investigation, the virtual environment Genially was used as an alternative to Gamification to strengthen reading comprehension in students in the fifth year of basic education of the "Amalia Urigüen" Fiscomisional school in Deleg city of the Cañar province. For the development of the work, we began with the elaboration of a reading whose content was related to the environment in which they reside and an evaluative questionnaire according to the Likert scale, formed by with five quantitative variables. This helped to know the skills and abilities that each student has to decode their content, which is the basis for obtaining the information baseline. After, playful methodologies, known as gamification, were implemented making use of technological resources such as Genially to strengthen for reading comprehensive. Finally, the reading was delivered for the second time for its interpretation and execution of the corresponding evaluation, obtaining two results for the respective analysis. In order to know the changes produced with the implementation of the experiment, the two results obtained were entered into the statistical package software for the social sciences SPSS with which it was determined that the average relationship between the pretest and posttest tests are associative, because their bilateral sig is less than 0.05, showing that the results are significant, that is, that to strengthen the comprehension of a reading, teaching can be used through games, which is known as gamification, as well as making use of available virtual media, as in this case Genially that allowed to relate these two teaching methods.

The use of podcasts in Latin America and mainly in Ecuador is not encouraging in terms of audience numbers, so it is necessary to educate the community so that they can listen to and produce podcasts. The sample for the study consisted of 34 students in the eighth year of primary school at the Unidad Educativa Remigio Crespo Toral. The experimental design of the study was qualitative and quantitative by means of a survey data collection technique and instrument. The data obtained in the study were processed using the SPSS version 25 statistical package for the Windows operating system. The statistical analyses applied to the samples are descriptive and frequency statistics. It is determined that there is no difference in general, all of them consider above 75% in most of the answers the importance of this educational tool on the classes, being women the most motivated in terms of this educational mechanism, one or one of the female students. Since they were anonymous surveys, they did not consider its use to be useful, and it would be convenient to investigate future mechanisms so that it can be used to attract the students' attention.

The present investigation is interested in the determination of the factors associated with the placement of microcredits in the Jardín Azuayo cooperative, Yanuncay office. The study is quantitative, exploratory, descriptive, and correlational. Part of a finite population of 9,206 research subjects. The research subjects are all active members of the Cooperativa Jardín Azuayo Yanuncay office. 103 study subjects were studied using an instrument validated by expert judgment and with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.884. The research is non-probabilistic and intentional. It was found that financial education, financial advice, pre-investment study, and savings culture are strongly correlated with the placement of microcredits. It is concluded that the analysis of the partner must be deeper considering the environment that is found and use this research for continuous improvement in advice on credit issues.

Introduction. Higher education and other educational scenarios together with employment have all been affected by the COVID 19 pandemic, which has taken humanity by surprise. This has caused social isolation and has obliged teachers and students to use technology so academic learning can continue. This, in turn, has caused many psychological issues such as stress and anxiety in students. Also, other issues have been present during distance learning, namely lack of internet service and access to technological tools, showing the big digital divide in countries like Ecuador. Objective. The present research study aims to determine which factors are associated with the academic performance of students of the University of Cuenca during the times of COVID. Methodology.  The research approach was quantitative, non-probabilistic, and of correlational type. The sample constituted 155 university students who were administered a questionnaire. Results. According to the results through the application of the quantitative approach, they show that tele-education, social isolation, and the digital divide have a significant impact on the academic performance of the students of the National and Foreign Languages ​​Pedagogy Career at the University of Cuenca. Conclusion. According to the findings, we conclude that it is necessary to promote the management of academic stress among students, and to establish procedures which could help students who have problems related with technology and Internet. This could help reduce the digital divide, allowing students to continue their studies in distance learning.