APPLICATION OF EXCEL SOFTWARE FOR THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS IN STUDENTS OF THE FIRST GRADE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN TRUJILLO, PERU

Abstract

The present research work has the main objective of determining to what extent the Application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), improves the academic performance in the mathematics area of the first-grade students of the secondary level, taking as based on a computer program that is available to most students at this level, such as excel. A very important psychological factor for the concretization of this fact is the motivation, generated by the interaction of the student with the TIC, constituting itself in a motor for the improvement of the academic performance of the student. To this end, a questionnaire was developed as an evaluation instrument for a sample of 60 students from a population of 260 male students. The research technique of experimental group design and control with previous and subsequent measurement was used, by non-probabilistic sampling, the section of the 1st "I" was determined as the experimental group (31 students) and the section of the 1st "J"as the control group (29 students), the results being processed and statistically checked. The final conclusion was reached that the application of ICT, in this case the excel computer program, improves by 16.6%, the academic performance in Mathematics of the first grade students of the secondary level of the IEPE GUE José Faustino Sánchez Carrión-Trujillo. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 22(10) December, 2021; 1-6.