Design and Application of Metacognitive Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in High School Students

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Eliana María Castrillón Rivera
Solbey Morillo Puente
Luz Adriana Restrepo Calderón

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This article presents some findings obtained in the application of a metacognitive intervention strategy as a didactic strategy with students from the 10th grade in an official institution in the city of Medellin, Colombia. Its objective was determining if the reading comprehension improves with the implementation of such metacognitive strategies. The research was performed under a quantitative approach. Quasi-experimental design with pretest, protest, and control groups were also used. The measurements were made with a self-made poll of two groups of students composed of eighteen questions extracted from the Saber tests, which have three reading dimensions: literal, inferential, and critical. The results showed an improvement in the scores for the three reading levels. Nonetheless, this improvement was not statistically significant for the inferential level, as it was for literal and critical reading comprehension levels obtained by the experimental group intervened with the strategic didactic. These results prove that the meta-cognitive strategies favor the improvement in the reading comprehension, given that they allow the student to become autonomous, to autoregulate her/his comprehension process, to pose a reading purpose without the teacher having to give one, to take into account its previous knowledge, to establish strategies for the comprehension, and achieving an evaluation of its cognitive process.

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Eliana María Castrillón Rivera, Institución Educativa Nicanor Restrepo Santamaría, Medellín, Colombia

Filologa Hispánica, Licenciada en Humanidades: Lengua Castellana, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Estudiante de la Maestría en Educación, Universidad de Medellín, Colombia. Docente en la Institución Educativa Nicanor Restrepo Santamaría, Medellín, Colombia.

Solbey Morillo Puente, Universidad de Medellín, Colombia

Licenciada en Educación Preescolar, magíster en Educación, mención Informática y Diseño Instruccional y doctora en Educación, Universidad de Los Andes, ULA, Venezuela. Docente en la Universidad de Medellín, Colombia.

Luz Adriana Restrepo Calderón, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Profesional en Educación Especial, magíster en Educación Docencia, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Docente en la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

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Castrillón Rivera, E. M., Morillo Puente, S., & Restrepo Calderón, L. A. (2020). Design and Application of Metacognitive Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in High School Students. Ciencias Sociales Y Educación, 9(17), 203-231. https://doi.org/10.22395/csye.v9n17a10

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