The Evaluation of Knowledge Integrating Projects at UNAN -Managua

Abstract

This unique study of its kind at the university level and     at the country level, refers to the experience lived by     teachers and students in the process of evaluation     of the Integrating Knowledge Product (PIS). The     importance of the study lies in the fact that today     universities in general and UNAN-Managua in particular     have established the PIS as strategic instruments to     train future professionals with the necessary skills to     solve social problems and face uncertainty. In them     the quality of the learning achieved and to be achieved     is evidenced and from this, improve them.     Methodologically, the work is circumscribed in the     qualitative-phenomenological-descriptive paradigm     in which 30 teachers and 30 students from 10 defense     teams and from three different careers of the Faculty     of Economic Sciences participated, providing the     primary source of the study, the secondary source was     It was obtained by resorting to academic Google and     the indexed journals generated by the search engine,     for which some Boolean resources were used to     accurately manage updated and reliable information     on the subject in question. The analysis of the data was     made from the results obtained, the information from     a secondary source and later contrasted, with respect     to the theoretical basis.     In the Results, it was possible to verify the advances     in the curricular integration mainly in what refers to     Planning and organization of the evaluation, not so in     the execution, and evaluation of the process, where     application weaknesses were observed, nuanced     by lack of will of the teaching staff, at the same time     allowed to observe the learning achieved by the     students of cognitive aspects typical of the first year,     through the student performance of the I and II (Both     of the I semester 2022). It is concluded that greater     leadership, organization, better control and evaluation     by the directors of the teaching departments are     necessary, before, during and after the construction     process of the PIS and in general of the evaluation.