SELF-ESTEEM AND UNDERSTANDING OF INFORMATION IN THE SCIENCE AREA, TECHNOLOGY AND ATMOSPHERE OF THE FIRST GRADE OF SECONDARY OF THE STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE DISTRICT OF HUANCAYO

Abstract

The investigation has had as objective to analyze the relationship between self-esteem and the development of the capacity of understanding of the students’ of the educational institutions of state administration of the district of Huancayo Information and the hypothesis; direct and significant relationship exists between self-esteem and the achievement of the capacity of understanding of information in the Area of Science, Technology and Atmosphere for the students of the first degree of secondary of the state educational institutions of the district of Huancayo. The used method was the descriptive one, with design descriptive correlacional; for the gathering of the information the fichaje techniques, psicometría and educational evaluation and the instruments were used: you register bibliographical, of summary and textual trascripción, test of Coopersmith and pedagogic test; the population was constituted by 3669 students and the sample by 310 elected students for simple aleatory sampling. The results indicate that a significant correlation exists (p<0,05) direct and low between self-esteem and the capacity of understanding of the student’s information; as well as according to gender and age according to the test Z of Gauss to 95 % of dependability.