Abstract

REYES NARVAEZ, Silvia Elizabet et al. Attitudes of public university students towards research. Comuni@cción [online]. 2023, vol.14, n.2, pp.137-147.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2219-7168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.33595/2226-1478.14.2.847.

Research is a transversal axis in the curriculum of future professionals, therefore, the university has to promote research to help solve the different problems of society. The study had as objective to determine what are the attitudes towards research in students of some public universities. Basic research of non-experimental design carried out on 183 students from the Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo National University, the National University of San Marcos and the National University of Engineering. Data were collected through a questionnaire on attitudes towards research applied online and statistical analysis was performed with the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U test. The results show that the students of the National Engineering University present a higher score (Mdn=92; Rank=61) regarding the attitude towards research, followed by the students of the National University of San Marcos (Mdn=89; Rank=63) and of the students of the Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo National University (Mdn=86; Rank=58). It is concluded that there are significant differences in the attitude towards research in the students of the universities under study.

Keywords : Research; student attitude; attitude; university.

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