Academic performance of Wayuu students in times of COVID19

Abstract

The emergence of COVID-19 has posed challenges for educational institutions determining the need to redefine the role of educational actors in order to guarantee quality conditions and assurance of learning. One of the variables is represented by student academic performance; It is necessary to ask ourselves about how to contribute to integrality in training by strengthening competencies in curricular areas, such as technology and information technology; It is assumed that the conceptual, methodological and procedural appropriation of the referred disciplinary fields are a priority because they mainstream the curriculum and dynamize the practices of the actors. The study of academic performance in these areas acquires scientific, social and contemporary significance when it is associated with socio-historical conditions that affect their dynamics, such as the case of COVID19; Likewise, the particularities of the physical, geographical, and cultural environment, where the training occurs, are mobilizing variables. In this sense, a context of singular relevance to analyze the relationships between the identified categories is represented by the Wayuu ethnic group located in the Colombian Guajira. The exogenous or endogenous factors associated with the ethnic group determine their vulnerability as human systems. This article analyzes the academic performance of Wayuu students in technology and informatics in the face of the prevalence of covid-19. Based on a rationalist approach, mixed paradigm, documentary and field design, through techniques such as content analysis, questionnaire and interview, levels of description, explanation, analysis and contrast are reached. The documentary units are: the Institutional Educational Project, the Institutional Student Assessment System, area plan and guide 30 (MEN); the empirical plane is located in an educational institution in the Colombian Guajira; it works with teachers and students of the last grade of secondary education. As results stand out: 1) Students recognize the implementation of different didactic strategies and contextualized evaluation; 2) Families have increased their level of commitment and motivational factors 3) Families have made efforts to locate technological resources and students for their appropriation. 4) The effects of COVID19 show difficulties in the displacement of the student from their villages to access technology. Among the conclusions, the importance of consolidating a sustainability structure (processes, units and resources) stands out as the basis for the conception of evaluation methodologies according to the profiles of the Wayuu student and the main competences to be developed in the technology and informatics area.