Didactic guide and achievement of skills in the area of education for work.

Abstract

The objective of this article is to determine to what extent the use of the didactic guides influences the achievement of skills in the area of education for work in secondary school students. It was a quantitative, quasi-experimental study with a survey and observation data collection technique for the purpose of applying the pretest and posttest instrument. The result obtained through the non-parametric Mann Whitney U test at a level of 0.05 showed that there are significant differences between the scores obtained by both groups. It was concluded that the use of the didactic guides significantly influences the achievement of the capacities of the education for work area.