FORMATIVE RESEARCH AND PROFFESIONAL COMPETENCES IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDENTS

Currently, teachers in training can acquire professional skills from research practice, therefore, from the perspective of university social responsibility, universities are called to implement scenarios to achieve these ideals. Based on the above, the objective of this study is to apply a training program for professional competencies through formative research in students of the first cycle of education in five faculties of education located in Metropolitan Lima. It was a quantitative, descriptive, quasiexperimental study with a purposive sample of 140 students in the first cycle of education from five university faculties located in Metropolitan Lima. The measurement included a pretest and post-test evaluation, with a 24-week educational intervention. The results show a reduction of 61.57% of students in the initial stage and an increase of 63.50% of students who were located on the achieved scale, taking into consideration 100% of the sample selected for the analysis. Among the conclusions, it stands out that the educational intervention was satisfactory and that it is prudent to continue with studies of this type to achieve improvements in the competency-based training of university students based on formative research.