Scientific Competencies: A Mechanism to Favour the Inclusion of Working Market Professionals

Abstract

Institutions of Higher Education seek to instil in their students the scientific competencies throughout the guidance of different included courses in their curriculums. However, the assimilation of diverse methodologies evidence the lack of development of those scientific competencies necessary for professionals to be graduated and therefore required by the labour market. This research examines the research competencies of students of higher education sample (N=189) to determine their appreciation towards scientific competencies they consider to have developed in both their educational processes. The results prove the perception of subjects in respect to the development of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, decision-making, problem-solving and acquisition of scientific competences, the basic ones; use of technology, appropriation of new knowledge, self-learning and search of information, specialized competences, drafting of reports, design of articles, presentations, development of degree works and definition of new projects. The application of ANOVA detects that there are significant differences according to the gender of subjects on competencies referred to the search of physical information where women stand out, and reading comprehension of documents in English where men stand out. Besides, it’s demonstrated that these competences contribute to students’ critical thinking. IES required to include research as mechanism to strengthen the education. Key words: scientific competences, higher education, research training, scientific competencies, labour market.

Entornos Virtuales de Aprendizaje en el Desarrollo de Competencias Científicas en Estudiantes de una Universidad Privada de Lima-2021

“…La definición de competencia científica ha sido abordada desde diferentes perspectivas, algunos autores como Hernández (2005) refieren que las competencias científicas son "un conjunto de conocimientos, capacidades y actitudes que permiten actuar e interactuar significativamente en contextos en los que se necesita producir, apropiar o aplicar comprensiva y responsablemente los conocimientos científicos" (p.21). Con respecto al desarrollo de competencias científicas que permiten actuar en situaciones profesionales competentemente, Guzmán et al (2017) afirman que son un mecanismo para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico, aspecto importante para la formación de los profesionales.…”