Evaluación de desempeño como estrategia para la implementación efectiva del curriculum en establecimientos municipales de Rancagua

Abstract

This thesis falls within the field of management and school leadership insert in the Educational Reform developing in our country, dealing with the challenges of a new Framework for Good Management whose foci are: to develop professional skills, to leader and monitor the teaching and learning process, as well as developing and managing the organization. This study seeks to show in a holistic and systemic approach the impact the installation of certain practices have in municipal schools correlating them with the achievement of learning that students gain on standardized tests such as SIMCE and curriculum coverage measurements. The independent variables listed in this study come from the assessment of individual performance through measurement of practices that are part of Functional Competencies and Behavioral Competencies, and school performance achieved by pupils of 2nd, 4th, 8th and 10th, in the SIMCE test and curricular coverage tests. The thesis argues that these practices can be part of a strategy of Professional Teaching Improvement contextualized and situated to the needs of the 36 educational institutions in the district of Rancagua installing it through a Performance Management Evaluation that includes measuring of functional skills and behavioral competencies of the professionals working in each of the schools of the commune. To carry out this study two working hypotheses arise indicating that there is a direct relationship between the achievement of Functional Skills of the Teachers and the results of performance on SIMCE test and curricular coverage tests of the students, and a second hypothesis that establishes a mayor correlation between the achievement of Behavioural Competences of the Teachers and the results of the achievements on the scholar performance; intervention that pretends to attend the inamobility of the level of performance reached by the students of municipal schools in the city of Rancagua. According to the data analyzed in this study, the main conclusion to be drawn is that there is a higher correlation between the percentage of achievement of the practices of the Behavioral Competencies and school performance of students in 2nd grade, being lower on the higher levels of education, since in these levels are more incident the Functional Competences in their school performance.