DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL SKILLS AND STUDY TECHNIQUES IN 9TH GRADE STUDENTS OF A COLOMBIAN RURAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

This article refers to the study of intellectual skills and study habits, being the main objective to analyze the relationship between intellectual skills and study techniques in 9th grade students of a rural educational institution, in order to establish a process of improvement in teaching didactics, focused on educational quality parameters, this was done through a study with a quantitative approach, with descriptive and correlational scope, non-experimental design of transectional or cross-sectional type, the sample consisted of 36 students between 13 and 16 years old. Two instruments were applied, the first was the Primary Mental Aptitudes Questionnaire "PMA" (Thurstone & Thurstone, 2007) and the second was the Study Habits and Techniques Questionnaire "CHTE" (Álvarez & Fernandez, 2015), in addition to the information on school academic performance for the first period of the school year 2019, among the most relevant results are the relationship of the reasoning factor with the factors of verbal comprehension, spatial conception and numerical calculation, as well as the relationship between academic performance and spatial conception, and the relationships between different aspects of study habits.