Ethics and management competencies in graduate students: instruments for their measurement
Abstract
One of the most important elements with respect to competitiveness and development is the formation of human capital, since the country's progress depends on it. Therefore, it is essential that graduate programs oriented to the training of scientists have information on the competencies that are developed within their programs. The objective of this paper is to construct and determine the metric properties of two scales to measure ethical and management competencies in graduate students. Method. For this purpose, a mixed method was used in two phases; in the first phase, 51 researchers belonging to the National System of Researchers were interviewed to determine the indicators that make up each competency. In the second phase, scales were created with the indicators that emerged from the previous phase and were applied to 372 students from different graduate programs in the state of Sonora. Results. The results indicate that the scales empirically support the measurement of the construct, making them valid and reliable instruments. Discussion. The study represents an important instrumental contribution to the current literature on the development of these competencies in postgraduate programs, since the scales developed are a tool that serves to evaluate them; which represents for teachers, students, coordinators and accreditors of postgraduate programs a reliable instrument that allows identifying strengths and weaknesses in their student cohort and in their academic programs.
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