Evaluation of the implementation of the educational program for the training of students participating in the Chemistry Olympiad Evaluación de la aplicación del programa educativo para el entrenamiento de los estudiantes que participan en las Olimpiadas de Química

Abstract

Education in Cuba has paid great attention to the training of students who are participating in knowledge competitions and the Olympics. For this reason, the students who win the National Olympics undergo a special preparation process in order to participate in international events. The process that has been developed constitutes one of the ways of showing attention to the academic talent in chemistry, since most of the students choose careers that are related to this science. This is what justifies the objective of this work: to evaluate the educational program that is applied to the students who participated in the training process for their participation in the Knowledge of Chemistry Olympiad, from the cognitiveinstrumental, motivational-affective, and psychosocial spheres, aspects that are part of research undertaken. The research methods that were used in order to fulfill this objective were: documentary analysis, analysis and synthesis, statistical test, determination of the multidimensional correlation coefficient, techniques, and psychological tests. As a result, this document shows the actions that must be carried out for the implementation of the program, the information that was obtained after the application of various instruments and the use of the multidimensional coefficient in determining the consistency among the indicators that were proposed in the three analyzed during the investigation.