Estrategias lectoras y desempeño en pruebas de estudiantes universitarios en textos narrativos

• Autores: Platas García, Alejandra, Castro Manzano, José Martín, Reyes Meza, Verónica
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Marcelino Champagnat
• Repositorio: Revista educa UMCH
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.umch.edu.pe:article/168
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.umch.edu.pe/index.php/EducaUMCH/article/view/168
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Prueba de lectura; Respuestas abiertas; Opción múltiple; Área académica; Género; Reading tests; Open-ended responses; Multiple-choice; Academic area; Gender

In this research we tried to compare both reading strategies and performance in an inferential reading comprehension test within undergraduate students, women and men, from three academic areas using narrative texts. Two experiments were carried out corresponding to quantitative investigations, descriptive cross-sectional studies, classifying the students by their academic area (in one experiment) and by their gender (in the other). The participants of the first experiment were 33 undergraduate students belonging to the following academic areas: Economic-Administrative Sciences (11 students); Exact Sciences and Engineering (11); Social Sciences and Humanities (11); while the sample of the second experiment was made up of 18 students (9 women and 9 men). Two instruments were employed: the Questionnaire  of  Metacognitive Strategies to Comprehend Narrative Texts, and an inferential reading comprehension test specially designed for this research. We found, with respect to reading strategies, that students belonging to the area of Exact Sciences and Engineering employ less creativity strategies when compared to students in the Economic-Administrative, Social Sciences and Humanities. This difference being statistically significant using an ANOVA test (f = 8.811, n = 33, p = .001). However, no statistically significant differences were found in relation to test performance. In future work, the samples could be expanded to further compare these results.