Abstract:

Developing higher thinking skills in students who are honed in a specialty or area of ​​knowledge is one of the goals that higher education institutions seek to achieve during training processes.

Beas and Gómez (2004) describe the cognitive process of pedagogical knowledge in the period of teacher training as a mechanism that requires an exhaustive in-depth analysis to achieve meaningful learning, that is why teachers become aware of their mental habits and reflect on topics to expand their looks is a permanent task. Perspective analysis is defined as the process in which the student has the ability to identify various points of view on the same subject and understand the reasons behind each of them (Marzano and Pickering, 2005). According to these authors, this process is one of the most effective in thinking since it requires the ability and discipline to stop and reflect on a specific topic taking into account your own perspective and that of others.

This study provides a Test of Strategies evaluating cognitive abilities, to determine the ability of a student to create his own opinion based on ideas and visions of other authors (Beas, Santa Cruz, Thomsen, & Utreras 2001). It was evaluated with an instrument for carrying out tasks (rubrics). A qualitative methodology was used, through a case study, with a selected sample of 40 master's students in education in the subject of Theories of Learning and Cognitive Skills in a private university. The results show that when students read various perspectives of some subject, they manage to broaden and deepen the knowledge regarding their own perspective.

Keywords:

Higher education, higher thinking, cognitive skills, perspective analysis.