Career in the teaching profession: the paths to become a school principal

Abstract

There have been identified the student’s approaches to learning in the Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (N = 262), from second, fourth and sixth semester. It has been used the “Cuestionario de Procesos y Estrategias de Aprendizaje” (cepa) translated to spanish by Barca (1999) from the original inventory Learning Process Questionnaire (lpq) elaborated by Biggs (1987). Superiority in the superficial approach (40.1%) has found over the deep approach (28.6%) and the achieving approach (31.3%). Significant differences were found between the students’ approaches to learning by applying the ANOVA in one-way to student’s final grades; students with a surface approaches get lower grades above the students with a deep approaches. The learning approaches are not simple, are dynamic; they can predominate one or be combined before the demanded task.