Google Classroom and reading skills in secondary school students at Centro Educativo Parroquial 1327Ancón, Lima, Peru, 2020

Abstract

The present research work sought to determine the suitability of applying the Google Classroom platform to develop communicative reading skills in students in the fourth grade of secondary school at the Institución Educativa Parroquial (I.E.P.) $N^{\circ}$ 3721 in Ancón. Lima. Peru, when face-to-face classes had to be substituted by the so-called virtuality in the teaching-learning process, within the protocols implemented to face Covid-19. Authorities, teachers, and students were forced to look for technological tools and develop digital skills to achieve their educational objectives. Google Classroom was the digital platform used for the virtual process of developing the reading skills of the aforementioned group of students, whose results are contrasted with those achieved by a control group, with whom identical learning content was developed, both evaluated using rubrics. The results show that the use of this platform contributed to a significant improvement in the learning and reading skills of the experimental group concerning the control group, in the school year 2020. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.