Research and Socio-Educational Impact Competences in the Degree Work of a University in Ecuador Competencias de investigación e impacto socioeducativo en los trabajos de titulación de una universidad de Ecuador

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the research competences and their impact on the relevance and socio-educational impact in the Undergraduate degree work of graduates of the education sciences career of a university in Ecuador. It is a basic research, because its results enrich the theoretical scientific knowledge; descriptive level and assumes the correlational design, because it establishes a relationship between two variables. The sample consisted of 55 Students, 05 Teachers, Two instruments were applied: a questionnaire to measure the variable Evaluation of research competencies, which consists of 25 items and measures the dimensions: about knowledge, content or knowledge, about knowing-being, behavior or attitudes and values, about knowing-doing, of skills, abilities or abilities; Another questionnaire to measure the variable relevance and socio-educational impact in the undergraduate degree work of graduates, which consists of 32 items and measures the dimensions: social relevance, work relevance and academic relevance, the instruments have been validated through expert judgment and they have an adequate level of reliability: 0.897 and 9.891 respectively. The results show that there is an incidence of the evaluation of the research competencesin the relevance and socio-educational impact of the undergraduate degree work of the graduates, reaches a level of 872.