Active Methodologies in the Training of Future Health Professionals: Academic Goals and Autonomous Learning Strategies

Yosbanys Roque Herrera, María Luisa Zalagaz Sánchez, Pedro Valdivia-Moral, José-Antonio Marín-Marín and Santiago Alonso García
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Yosbanys Roque Herrera: Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Chimborazo, Riobamba 060150, Ecuador
María Luisa Zalagaz Sánchez: Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain
Pedro Valdivia-Moral: Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Granada, 18011 Granada, Spain
José-Antonio Marín-Marín: Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Santiago Alonso García: Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: The learning of future health professionals is fundamental to the training of competent professionals. In this work, it was proposed to determine the correlation between academic goals and learning strategies in students enrolled from the first to the sixth semester in seven specialties of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the National University of Chimborazo. A correlational design was used in which the questionnaires for evaluation of academic achievement and strategies for autonomous learning strategies were applied. The resulting data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and non-parametric inferential statistical methods. The results suggested that the types of academic goals and autonomous learning strategies had a homogeneous pattern in most of the seven specialties studied. According to the Likert scale, category 3, which sometimes corresponds to the range of quantitative categories, was the predominant one. Finally, the correlation between autonomous work strategies and the types of academic achievement of the students in the sample was mostly weak or non-existent and direct.

Keywords: active methodologies; innovation actions in education; achievements; training; strategy; learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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