Strategies for strengthening educational quality in technical and technological education in Azuay

Abstract

The research focuses on technical and technological careers, where the Higher Technological Institute of Azuay is located. The objective is to propose strategies for the strengthening of educational quality in technical and technological education in the province of Azuay, which allow reducing the school repetition rates of its students. The design is non-experimental, with a descriptive scope and a qualitative approach, governed by the use of documentary analysis, the analysis-synthesis method and the application of focus groups. The qualitative analysis software ATLAS.ti was used. The results show the existence of endogenous and exogenous factors that affect school repetition. Likewise, strategies are proposed to strengthen educational quality and reduce school repetition rates. For this, 4 focus groups were applied to 30 teachers and 3 focus groups to 20 students to better understand the problem evidenced.