Critical analysis of the digital educational resources proposed by the Ministry of Education of Chile in the school text of the student of the subjects of Biology and Chemistry of Secondary Education

Abstract

Digital resources are an important tool in the daily life of the entire society, so it is necessary to know the quality of these resources, especially in the educational field, such as those proposed by the Ministry of Education in school textbooks. This qualitative research provides an account of the digital educational resources proposed in the Chilean Secondary Education Biology and Chemistry textbooks for the year 2018. For this, we sought to know the availability, pedagogical role and quality of these resources, through content analysis in a sample of three school texts on Biology: 1, 2 and 3-4 from secondary school and three from Chemistry: 1, 2 and 3-4, also from secondary school. It is evident that there are 24 resources not available in Biology texts, out of a total of 76; and 67 resources out of 148 in Chemistry texts. In the pedagogical role of resources, the informative predominates to the detriment of the demonstrative and interactive in both disciplines. Finally, regarding the quality of the resources defined as excellent, regular and poor, it is observed that the Chemistry texts provide better quality resources.