ICT and the cognitive development of technology students: an assessment from the student's perspective

Abstract

There are divided opinions regarding the influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on the cognitive activity of students, in addition to the fact that at the technological higher education level these studies are scarce in spite of multiple efforts made. The objective of this work is to contextualize the relationship between these two variables in the environment of the city of Guayaquil. The methodology used is qualitative, for which a research instrument (survey) was developed, to which the Content (Sufficiency, Coherence, Relevance and Clarity) and Objectivity (Specificity, Neutrality, Independence and Impersonality) are valued through expert judgment, measuring the Reliability of the different dimensions and the instrument in general with the Cronbach's Alpha statistic, making use of the contingency tables and measuring the possible relationship with the Chi-square statistic. The main conclusion of the study is that there is a significant relationship between ICT and cognitive development with the stratum year of study with 95% probability.