Resumen

BERRELLEZA REYES, Cecilia; OSUNA MARTINEZ, Irma; SALAZAR SOTO, Dora Yaqueline  y  RUIZ XICOTENCATL, Juan. Collaborative strategy to achieve motivation and competences in microbiology. Case: podiatry UAS. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.13, pp.388-405. ISSN 2007-7467.

The present thesis emerges of the need of cognitive competences and the lack of motivation observed in the classroom, hence the interest of applying collaborative strategies in order to achieve motivation and competency in microbiology. In the technical careers, those students are not concerned by this type of contents because they are interested is to develop the skills to perform the required operations. This research involved students of the second semester of the career of Superior Technical of Podiatry of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, during the school cycle 2014-2015; the objective is determine the impact that exercise the collaborative strategies in the achievement of the motivation and the competencies in microbiology. A mixed approach was used with longitudinal design, the qualitative part is ethnographic in the application of teaching strategy, and quantitative in the data statistical analysis of the EMA scale, which allows to develop processes and causes. The changes during the allotted time (six months) were examined, in which the successful difference was measured when the treatment with the independent variable (the collaborative strategy) was treated. During this period, in the process of data collection utilized instruments such as the field diary, self-assessments, performance rubrics, among others. The results confirm the theory that the formation of collaborative learning groups generates cognitive and social competencies in them, additionally motivates the interaction among equals, develops intellectual, social and emotional capabilities and values, and what is even more important, provides and reinforces competencies for life.

Palabras llave : learning strategies; collaborative learning groups; motivation; competencies.