Formación continua y habilidades directivas en autoridades educativas en una Dirección Distrital de Educación, Guayas, Ecuador 2024

Currently, the promotion of continuous training and the achievement of managerial skills is a crucial topic for effective educational management. However, 74% of professionals leading educational institutions do not receive specialized continuous training. In this sense, the objective was to determine the degree of relationship between continuous training and managerial skills among educational authorities in the District Education Directorate of Guayas, Ecuador, 2024. The research conducted is basic in nature, utilizing a non-experimental design, with a descriptive correlational level and a quantitative approach. The census sample consisted of 41 school administrators from public schools. The survey technique was applied, and the instrument used was a questionnaire for the variables of continuous training and managerial skills. It was concluded, based on Spearman's Rho test, a correlation coefficient equal to 0.767 and a bilateral significance level of 0.01, that the positive correlation is high and that there is a significant relationship between continuing education and management skills in the educational authorities in the context under study.