Andragogic heterogeneity in cognitive competences for research

Abstract

In the current context, the importance of having human capital capable of responding in a concrete and effective way to events that require a research profile has become evident, being essential to have the ability to materialize intellectual virtues in favor of general well-being. However, this is a difficult objective to carry out, provided that there is a lack of scientific training aimed at encouraging future professionals to be high-level researchers, explained by the significant differences between the transversal competences that they should have, in this case, in university higher education. Mainly, the cognitive instrumental competences, manifest the basic and essential characteristics, highly linked to the development of the scientific method. In this sense, the present work shows the diagnosis started in march 2019 and concluded in april 2020, regarding the existing heterogeneity in the cognitive competences for research that the participants should have (ideally), regarding what they manifest when they are in the process of preparing a thesis (actual status); as part of the research courses in the business sciences career and within the framework of the andragogic learning process.