Scientific Initiation In University Training Research

Abstract

The objective of this article is to report the experience of scientific initiation in undergraduate students as part of university training research. In this sense, the study was proposed at an exploratory-descriptive level; under the non-experimental cross-sectional design and intentional probabilistic sampling. The survey was applied to 1116 students of the scientific initiation program of the 12 campuses. Coming to group the results in three categories: participation by curricular experience, theme developed in the workshops and participation by professional career. It is evident that the curricular experiences linked to the methodology, project, development and degree by thesis stand out with greater interest among the participants. And as thematic development, technological surveillance, review article methodology, use of Zotero and guidelines for publishing review articles stand out. Likewise, regarding the professional career, there is evidence of greater interest in students of Administration, Accounting, Industrial Engineering, Civil, Law, etc. Therefore, it is concluded that a scientific initiation program arouses greater interest in participating students when the student's interest in the experience, career and/or study cycle is directly related to research and has to deliver a research product at the end. as a research paper, project or thesis.