Educational Coaching in the Performance of Higher Education Teachers

Abstract

Education is a social process that is commissioned the integral formation of the human being for life, so that it permanently transforms itself and contributes to the transformation of the context, the purpose of the study was to determine the Educational Coaching and the difficulties that exist to the application of the Soft Skills in the performance of teachers. The study was of applied quantitative approach, non-experimental design, cross-sectional, causal correlational; with a sample of 123 university professors evaluated through the Google form questionnaire, for the three variables Educational Coaching, soft skills and teaching performance. At the level of its results it was found that 71.5% of teachers presented a moderate educational coaching, 82.1% high soft skills, and 66.7% regular level in teacher performance, of the p value of 0.005 ordinal regression was applied, where according to the Logarithm model of likelihood was -2 = 0.000 with a Chi-square = 55.422 and a p value = 0.000,  indicating that both variables educational coaching and Soft Skills contribute significantly in the teaching performance with Nagelkerke coefficient = 0.469, explaining to the model in 46.9%. With significant Wald coefficient for the variable  educational coaching with p=0.036<0.05 and soft skills with p=0.028<0.05. Including them in the proposed regression model.