Digital skills and research abilities in general studies students from a private university of Lima

Abstract

The development of this research work has as main objective to establish whether the digital skills are related to the research abilities in students of general studies from a Private University of Lima during the year 2019.  A non-experimental correlational research design was used. The studied sample was probabilistic and was composed by a total of 348 students, to whom two evaluation instruments were applied: the Questionnaire of digital skills of Santiago Mengual, and the Questionnaire of research abilities of Jaime Rodríguez. Both instruments have consistent levels of validity and reliability. The results show that the digital skills and the research abilities are significantly correlated (r = 0,84). Furthermore, significant correlations  between the diverse digital skills and the diverse research abilities were found, which demonstrates the importance these variables have in the academic development of the students.