Desde una perspectiva constructivista-sociocultural, en este artículo de investigación se presentan una serie de ideas cuyo propósito es contribuir al desarrollo de habilidades científicas en estudiantes de educación superior, bajo la premisa de que, entre otras dificultades, éstos no logran construir capacidades propias de razonamiento científico.From a constructivist-sociocultural perspective, this paper presents a set of ideas whose purpose is to contribute to the development of scientific skills in higher education students, under the premise that among other difficulties, they fail to raise capabilities of scientific reasoning for acquiring skills that enable them to have a complete life quality and aspire to be individuals socially useful.