Attitudes towards research of pedagogy students from an innovation project

Abstract

This research reports the results of an educational innovation project hose target was to design, implement and evaluate strategies of authentic evaluation through the use of ICTS, feedback between peers was specifically
incorporated, that allowed to diversify the teacher’s evaluation and feedback through the usage of a virtual platform. 23 special education students of the Universidad Central de Chile, region of Coquimbo, who were studying their graduate seminar, participated in this project. A mixed methodology with a sequential design was used to obtain a better understanding of the results. In this first report, the findings and conclusions of the quantitative stage of the
study are presented. In coherence with the above, a questionnaire of attitudes towards research was applied before and after the execution of the project. The
main results show a global rise in the educational research attitudes of the students. A greater increase is shown in the dimensions of research activities and context investigation.