Workshop on Digital Competencies to Improve Research Skills in University Students

Abstract

This report was addressed with the objective of determining how the digital skills workshop improves research skills in students university, from which the methodology was carried out under a quantitative approach according to the positivist perspective and under the experimental designs, classified as quasi-experimental, in which university students participated, with 34 students divided into two groups: 17 who formed the control group and 17 the experimental group. Regarding the descriptive results, differences were observed in the post-test and pre-test evaluations, in the levels of investigative skills that favored students in the experimental group; in comparison with those students in the control group where no substantial changes were evident. In addition, significant differences were reported in the means, which benefit the post test (M = 22.94) compared to the pre test (M = 17.41) in students of the experimental group, significantly due to Sig. < 0.05, which led to conclude that the digital skills workshop improves investigative skills in the analyzed sample significantly.