DESARROLLO DE LA AUTORREGULACIÓN DEL APRENDIZAJE EN EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA Y MEDIA SUPERIOR ANTE LA CONTINGENCIA DE LA COVID-19.

Given the official declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, Mexico declared in March 2020 the suspension of face-to-face activities in educational centers through an Agreement promulgated in the Official Journal of the Federation. This suspension lasted until the end of the school year, causing students, teachers and managers to implement a distance modality to continue the training process. The present study pursues the objective of determining if the degree of self-regulation of the learning of students of Middle and High school education suffered any significant change due to this new modality. For this, a non-experimental and longitudinal study was developed, with an exploratory and descriptive scope. A sample of 206 students from a private school in the municipality of Aguascalientes was considered, to whom an instrument designed to measure the study variable was applied. The analysis of results allows validating the designed instrument, by identifying good levels of internal consistency and construct validity. A statistically significant advance in the degree of self-regulation of learning in students was revealed between the periods of application of the scale, identifying a significantly higher degree of self-regulation in female students than in males. These results are relevant, since in addition to collaborating with the scientific support of the country's official educational approach, focused on the development of competencies, contributes with an instrument for Mexico and the shed of light related to the online modality that will inevitably continue to be applied until the COVID-19 as long as the pandemic demands it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]