The system for measuring the quality of education (SIMCE) is a standardised evaluation that provides results on the academic achievement of Chilean students, while also including indicators of personal and social development. Through a mixed analysis of variables extracted from these indicators, the purpose of this research study is to build a measurement system to assess the favourable and unfavourable emotions of students who took the test in 2018. To contextualise this work, a systematic literature review was carried out synthetising scientific evidence concerning emotions and the interactional context of the classroom. Through a methodological transposition, a qualitative theoretical model epistemologically grounded on radical constructivism was validated quantitatively. This transposition resulted in the construction of three indices of favourable and unfavourable emotions: motivation arising from interaction, exclusionary interaction and interactional context. The results show favourable and unfavourable emotions for learning are a variable in the SIMCE indicators that can be used to understand student academic achievement, confirming existing empirical evidence regarding the explanatory and predictive value of emotions in students’ performance. These results highlight the potential benefits of expanding on this type of research to improve the quality of Chilean education based on the resources already available in the current evaluation system.

La educación de la ciudadanía es un tema central para los avances políticos y sociales que demanda el actual escenario de proceso constituyente en Chile, surgido del estallido social de octubre de 2019. Este texto se pregunta por la identidad de la formación de la ciudadanía en el entendido de que esta es una política de Estado que ha tenido presencia en nuestro sistema educativo desde los orígenes de la nación. Este trabajo se enmarca en un análisis reflexivo del tipo ensayo expositivo, que busca profundizar en el dilema actual de la educación al integrarse al debate político, no solo como una demanda social, sino que también como una herramienta de formación de la ciudadanía crítica que busque la justicia social.