The beginning of formative research. The case of a Peruvian Faculty of Engineering

Abstract

A training research program was implemented and developed at the University of Science and Humanities, as part of its integral training model, taking into account the development requirements of the research proposed in University Law 30220, which allows it to achieve an exit profile that satisfies interest groups. It was developed with 6 cohorts of students entering the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sciences and Humanities, who followed the Program I of formative research that covers the first three cycles, as a strategy for the development of formative research has opted for the production of basic written texts, essays and monographs, from the income cohort in 2015-A to the income cohort 2017-B. It was found, as part of the process, that as progress was made in the cycles, the results obtained by the majority of students expressed in grades have been slightly low. Therefore, it is suggested that the basic skills achieved by students in secondary education should be strengthened and the new knowledge imparted in parallel, as well as the capacities of the teacher in charge of inserting new university students in the world of the investigation.