Basic Skills in Higher Education: An Analysis of Attributed Importance
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Self-perceptions Basic skills Higher education College students Attributed importance Teaching method
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2022-02-08Referencia bibliográfica
Aranda L, Mena-Rodríguez E and Rubio L (2022) Basic Skills in Higher Education: An Analysis of Attributed Importance. Front. Psychol. 13:752248. doi: [10.3389/fpsyg.2022.752248]
Resumen
Today, the skills-based approach is increasingly in demand by companies due, in large
part, to the fact that it favors the management of human resources by focusing on
individual capabilities; which, finally, improves the job profile of a company. As a result,
choosing the right candidates has become increasingly selective. Universities, therefore,
need to teach skills to improve the incorporation of graduates into the workplace
making it as successful as possible. For this reason, it is of special relevance to know
if college students consider that the acquisition of skills is key for their incorporation
into the workplace. The main objective of this study was to analyze and compare the
importance assigned to the acquisition of basic skills in the university education of 694
students studying four different bachelor degrees: pedagogy, early childhood education,
primary education, and psychology. For this purpose, a Likert-type questionnaire on
basic skills was distributed with four possible options and the following five dimensions
that grouped basic skills: organizational and planning capacity; access to information
sources; analysis and synthesis of texts, situations, and people; teamwork; and problem
solving. The results show that as a whole all students across different bachelor degrees
gave a high score to the acquisition of basic skills, with early childhood education
students giving it greater importance compared to the students from other disciplines
and, more specifically, differences were observed in some dimensions depending on the
bachelor degree that they have started.