Abstract

PANTOJA AMARO, Luis Fernando; PENA AGUILAR, Juan Manuel  and  MENDOZA TORRES, Christian Paulina. Development of STEM Skills in High School as a Mechanism to Improve Continuity in Higher Education: Case Bases of Engineering Program. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.20, e016.  Epub Nov 18, 2020. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v10i20.614.

High school in Mexico is now considered part of obligatory education in the country. Before this obligation to develop an education that has a greater impact on the productive and educational environment becomes more important. Learning based on projects and case studies has proven to be a way to generate meaningful learning, although the way to develop it with the scarce resources that are available in public institutions in the country represents an enormous challenge. In higher education in Mexico there is the traditional model of education, technical training and the dual model (now through the Mexican model of dual training); however, although they are good efforts, are more focused on traditional education, in technical training or problem solving to gain experience that in developing a skill of "ingenuity" to solve practical problems but not necessarily focused on work in a particular company; skill that allows them to have ease to solve problems and better deal with commitments such as dealing with the study of an engineering and subsequently with different tasks of applied research. Thus, based on the Project Lead The Way (PLTW), program that was developed in the United States, the Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos de Querétaro (Cecyteq) elaborated a program called Bases de Ingeniería to develop in the students of high school the skills that allow them to face with greater success the university studies of engineering as well as to the development of professional activities in their technical specialty in the labor field. This article shows the follow-up to the efficiency of the program and the satisfaction that it has caused in the students. This to understand how it has been possible to apply special programs that allow the formation of competitive talent even though it has not been possible to increase the available resources, in a first comparative in the campus of Corregidora, Huimilpan, Menchaca, Montenegro, Pedro Escobedo, Querétaro and San Juan del Río.

Keywords : project-based learning; engineering bases; high school; STEM.