The system of selection of primary education teachers to debate: A Case Study

The objective pursued with this research was twofold, on the one hand, to demonstrate the influence of the selection board on the final grade of the opposition of the candidates for Primary Education Teacher in Castilla y Leon in the light of the results of the process and on the other, to contrast the perceptions about the opposition of the participants with the real results of the different exercises. As a method, by focusing on the specialty of Primary Education for this autonomous community in the last call, we have opted for a case study implemented by the mixed method of concurrent triangulation. On the qualitative side, the discussion group and the open questionnaire and the content analysis have been used, on the quantitative side, statistical tests of hypotheses and correlations have been carried out for the data of the minutes of qualifications of this process for the aforementioned specialty in the year 2019. As main results were obtained that the success in the process of selection and access of the Specialty in this call was very influenced by the evaluation of one or another court, that the qualifications of the exercises of the eliminatory part were practically the same and that the previous teaching experience does not suppose any advantage in the practical tests. The study concludes by suggesting changes in the process that guarantee objectivity and reduce randomness when it comes to obtaining the desired position of primary education teacher by the applicants.