Effects Of Scholarly Communication And Research Attitudes In College Students

Abstract

The increase in the number of publications of scientific articles has also generated some unethical behaviors during the development of research, such as avoiding giving credit to the authors cited in their research, abusing the use of self-citations, pl[1]agiarism and self-plagiarism are some of the most frequent. In this context, the objective of this research was to determine the effects of the "APA Standards" program on academic communication in university students. The design is quasi-experimental, because there was no random assignment or matching, the groups were formed naturally. The design of related groups is intrasubject, with pre-test and post-test, one experimental and the other control. The results determined that there are statistically significant differences in academic communication after the application of the "APA Standards" program in favor of the experimental group when compared to the control group, with an effect size of moderate magnitude.