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PASQUEL AVELLANEDA, Zosimo Emiliano; MANRIQUE GUZMAN, Elizabeth; CORNEJO GUEVARA, Maria Elena  y  CHAVEZ TAIPE, Ysabel Victoria. Factors that foster the development of inquiry competency. Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2025, vol.9, n.39, pp.3211-3227.  Epub 03-Jul-2025. ISSN 2616-7964.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistahorizontes.v9i39.1113.

Inquiry competence provides academic and motivational benefits, it is a valuable methodology, where there are factors involved in its development; some of these factors are experiences, collective action and feeling for learning. The objective of the study is to analyze research on the factors that favor the development of inquiry competence through a review of the literature. The design used for the study is the documentary analysis, with a qualitative approach, was carried out through a bibliographic review of 41 sources from different databases such as Scopus, Google Scholar, Scielo and Dialnet, among others. The results indicate that the factors involved in the development of inquiry promote skills and abilities such as critical thinking, synthesis, inferences, decision making, autonomous learning and teamwork. The findings agree that the development of the inquiry competence improves the understanding of concepts to help the development of higher order cognitive processes of application and analysis, showing research capabilities of the natural and social world through scientific methods. Factors including inquiry as a strategy, inquiry skills, scientific method, inquiry-based learning, competence and scientific literacy are discussed.

Palabras clave : Scientific literacy; Inquiry skills; Scientific method.

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