Browsing by Author "Cabrera, Patricio"

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Ambiente de aprendizaje en el hogar, instrucción materna y desempeño numérico temprano
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017) Bojorque, Gina; Cabrera, Patricio
Even before the start of formal schooling, there are large individual differences in children’s numerical performance, however, the knowledge about the mechanisms through which young children develop numerical abilities is limited. Certain contextual characteristics surrounding the children, including the home learning environment and the mother’s education, have been associated with children’s numerical performance. Research on this topic has been conducted mostly in developed countries, which makes the generality of those findings for developing countries, an open question. The aim of the present study was to examine the relations between the home learning environment and the mother’s education and the numerical abilities of first-grade children. A total of 176 cuencano children from public and private schools participated in the study. The results indicate that certain characteristics of the home environment, such as the numerical and literacy activities that parents perform with their children, are not related to the numerical performance of the children. However, the number of books for children available in the home is predictively related to their numerical performance. Similarly, the level of maternal education has a predictive relationship with children´s numerical performance.
Factores de riesgo social en el desempeño escolar
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2014-06) Piedra, Elisa; Vélez, Ximena; Arciniegas, Liliana; Pacurucu, Ana; Cabrera, Patricio; Mora, Franklin
This paper explores some of the risk factors responsible for low school performance of the 4th to 6th level children of public elementary schools in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. To this end, children with respectively low and high academic performance, parents, teachers and school directors were interviewed, using a template from which the population characteristics, the socioeconomic conditions, attitude of children and teachers, and performance variables were evaluated. For this study a total of 786 surveys, in different public elementary schools in the city of Cuenca were conducted, of which 77 were eliminated by incompleteness. The results showed that the low school performance of the children in first instance is caused by health problems, malnutrition, the high rotation of teachers, the socioeconomic situation of the parents, and the grade of repetition of school years. Furthermore, it was shown that boys overall score less than girls.