The document summarizes a study that compares the attitudes, experiences, and motivation toward undergraduate research of science students at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. The study surveyed 154 students across three classes to understand their beliefs, attitudes, accessibility, self-efficacy, and motivations regarding undergraduate research, as well as differences between pre-medical and non-pre-medical students. Most respondents had positive attitudes toward research and believed it was important and useful, but acknowledged barriers that could impact their self-efficacy in conducting research. The only significant difference found between groups was in attitudes toward research between two of the classes.
The document summarizes a study that compares the attitudes, experiences, and motivation toward undergraduate research of science students at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. The study surveyed 154 students across three classes to understand their beliefs, attitudes, accessibility, self-efficacy, and motivations regarding undergraduate research, as well as differences between pre-medical and non-pre-medical students. Most respondents had positive attitudes toward research and believed it was important and useful, but acknowledged barriers that could impact their self-efficacy in conducting research. The only significant difference found between groups was in attitudes toward research between two of the classes.
The document summarizes a study that compares the attitudes, experiences, and motivation toward undergraduate research of science students at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. The study surveyed 154 students across three classes to understand their beliefs, attitudes, accessibility, self-efficacy, and motivations regarding undergraduate research, as well as differences between pre-medical and non-pre-medical students. Most respondents had positive attitudes toward research and believed it was important and useful, but acknowledged barriers that could impact their self-efficacy in conducting research. The only significant difference found between groups was in attitudes toward research between two of the classes.
A Comparison of Attitudes, Experiences and Motivation toward Undergraduate Research of
Science Major Students of the University of the Philippines Los Baos
Josh Lendel G. De Jesus Carl Kenneth C. Reyes BS Mathematics and Science Teaching Prof. Ivan Marcelo A. Duka MST 190 Adviser ABSTRACT In the Philippine setting, colleges make undergraduate research/research courses as a requirement for students who want to receive a baccalaureate degree. The objectives of the study were to identify the beliefs and attitudes of the students towards undergraduate research; compare the differences between their beliefs and attitudes and their accessibility and self-efficacy in conducting science research; describe their motivations and other factors that may affect their participation in research, and; gain understanding to the possible differences between the beliefs, attitudes and other constructs of pre-medical and non-premedical students. In conducting the study, convenience sampling was used. A total of 154 respondents from three different classes at UPLB (BIO 101, NASC 4 and NASC 7) were surveyed of their study option, plan after graduation, beliefs, attitudes, intrinsic motivation and social influences that may affect their participation to undergraduate research. Most of the respondents chose the thesis and Special Problem (SP) as their study option and for their plan after graduation, most of them prefer non-pre-medical opportunities. Median scores from the adapted Likert-scale questionnaire were used to test if there is a significant difference between the median scores of the three classes. After running the two statistical tests (Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn) in each construct to compare the differences of median of the respondents and the pre-med and non-pre-med groups, only the construct of attitude of the NASC 7 and BIO 101 respondents towards research has significant difference. Overall, the respondents believed that science research is important. Most scientific research are useful to humanity. Also, they had a positive attitude regarding science research. Lastly, the respondents acknowledged the barriers in conducting science research in the university, per se. They believed that these problems may affect their self-efficacy before or during working with science research.
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