The Future of Education

This research aims to strengthen the development of  critical reading skills to the students from the Master in elementary education program in Colombia, by establishing a pedagogical strategy based on the solution and analysis of tests with multiple option questions in order to make possible the textual comprehension and critical reading, framed by its own disciplinary thematic courses. The methodology is quantitative type, with an empirical analytical approach and method almost - experimental, which were used on three groups of control and three experimental groups. The population is confirmed by 323 students who are in sixth, seventh and eighth semester from the Master in elementary education program from the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios - UNIMINUTO. Two courses of each group were selected as samples. The results obtained by the experimental groups are better than those of control, since more favorable results are demonstrated in the literally levels in opposite to the level inferential. Consequently, students have difficulties to obtain information from the text which requires relational abilities which are not textually implicit.  This investigation expects to reach and attend to the demands that institutions have at university education to face strategies which would help to the development of critical reading in students, especially those who are related to the educational careers as it is the case of the students from the master in elementary education program which is characterized by obtaining the lowest results over the standardized test, affecting their professional performance.

Keywords: Written test; critical reading; critical thinking; elementary Education and teachers' formation; 

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