The competency-based approach: the relationship between investigative skills and creative thinking in alternative basic education

Abstract

In the current educational context, characterized by a continuous demand for comprehensive training of students, particularly in skills such as creative thinking and research, it is a priority to evaluate how these skills interrelate with each other, contributing to meaningful learning and social impact. The article presents a quantitative methodological approach, with a non-experimental design and a survey as an instrument. The correlations between research skills and critical thinking are analyzed, focusing on fourth grade students of the advanced cycle of the Centro de Educación Básica Alternativa San José Marello, in La Molina. Among the main findings, the positive correlation between critical thinking and problematization of situations stands out, which reflects that research skills substantially improve the students' capacity to generate their own ideas, with reflective autonomy, contributing innovation to the educational act. It is concluded that it is important to integrate these competencies into the educational curriculum, since they guide students to face social demands, to confront their changes, thus preparing them for a changing world and for their insertion into citizenship and the labor market.