Una nueva mirada en la mediación pedagógica al encuentro con el sentido del aprendizaje en los procesos educativos

encuentro con el sentido del aprendizaje en los procesos educativos 159 Research Design When preparing information about people’s activities, it is necessary to start understanding the qualities and characteristics involved so qualitative aspects require special attention. Moreover, managing ciphers provides with fluent and clear arrangement of information. Hence, it is important to handle quantities to make clear points since this is when the quantitative paradigm and characteristics comes into action. Research Paradigm Creswell (2009) understands paradigm or worldview as basic sets of beliefs that guide actions. In addition, the author indicates that postpositivism is oriented to determination, reductionism, empirical observation and measurement, theory verification. Also, the author relates constructivism to understanding, multiple participant meanings, social and historical construction, and theory generation. Additionally, Creswell (2009) interprets transformative pragmatism as politically oriented, related to power and justice, collaborative, and change-oriented. The author associates pragmatism with consequences of actions, pluralism, and describes it as problem-centered as well as real-world practice oriented. This study follows the pragmatic and constructivist paradigms. First, according to Creswell (2009), pragmatism as a worldview arises out of actions, situations, and consequences rather than antecedent conditions (as in postpositivism). For Cresswell, pragmatism is not committed to any system of philosophy and reality. The former statement applies to mixed methods research in which inquirers draw liberally from both quantitative and qualitative assumptions when they work on their research. Furthermore, Creswell states that social constructivism is typically seen as an approach to qualitative research since it is related to effective applications and solutions to problems. The study followed both the pragmatic and constructivist paradigms because the close questions provided specific answers that could be described using graphics, tables, and numbers. In addition, the open questions showed participants’ perception according to their experience. Mixed Method Approach Cresswell (2009) explains that quantitative research is an approach for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables. These variables, in turn, can be measured with instrumentos so that numbered data can be analyzed using statistical procedures. The author also affirms that quantitative research is an approach for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables. The final written report has a set structure consisting of introduction, literature and theory, methods, results, and discussion. For Cresswell (2009) mixed methods research incorporates elements of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Often the distinction between qualitative research and quantitative research is framed in terms of using words (qualitative) rather than numbers (quantitative) or using closed-ended questions (quantitative hypotheses) rather than open-ended questions (qualitative