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administrative control.

Level IV (the highest), and in Mathematics only 3%.

exercise their right to receive an education quality.

be refined to develop a reading competence.

Results confirm the low educational levels at the national level of the students of Higher-Middle Education of the National Educational System. In Language and Communication, 34% of students were located in Level I (the lowest), and 66% in Level I of Mathematics. These students have not consolidated the keys learning that were evaluated in the PLANEA 2017 test, such as making implicit content inferences in different types of text or making inferences from a mathematical model. At the other extreme, in Language and Communication, only 9% of students are in

Results of academic achievement are a reflection of various social, cultural and economic factors, from students' school activities such as habits, attitudes, and values, to the conditions of educational institutions and the socioeconomic context in which they live. In addition, due to the diversity of educational institutions of the National Education System. Therefore, the improvement of educational achievement requires differentiated attention in each entity, type of service and type of

Undoubtedly, the academic achievement of students of Higher-Middle Education is linked to the results of previous educational levels. To address this situation, it is necessary to reduce knowledge gaps, opportunities and general conditions of teaching and learning, from the beginning of compulsory education. In this sense, the results show that there is a huge challenge ahead for Higher-Middle Education, this challenge implies that coordinated efforts of many actors from previous educational levels are also required so that all students can fully

In the case of Language and Communication, one of the initiatives may be the promotion of reading different text carriers and the critical analysis of them. The support of other subjects to carry out similar activities, including choosing articles, stories or books that students propose, helps to exercise cognitive processes that will

For Mathematics, in addition to emphasizing the role of the practice of the exercises and activities, it is advisable to multiply the occasions in which the student faces to solve contextualized problems and, progressively, of greater difficulty. The complexity of the exercises depends on the number of variables that need to be considered and the type of language needed to represent the situations. These aspects are enhanced when the contents are taught through problems in everyday scenarios, contrary to what happens with direct situations or exercises of mere resolution of

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Guillermo Molero-Castillo1 \*, Everardo Bárcenas1 , Alejandro Velázquez-Mena1 and Yaimara Céspedes-González<sup>2</sup>

1 Engineering Faculty, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

2 University of Veracruz, Mexico

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