1. Teoría y práctica de la comunicación: validación de la escala de Producción y difusión científica de la comunicación - el caso de la Universidad de Sonora, México.
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León Duarte, Gustavo Adolfo, Contreras Cázarez, Carlos René, and Meneses Jurado, Erika Carolina
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GRADUATE education , *UNDERGRADUATE programs , *COMMUNICATION education , *HIGHER education , *SCIENTIFIC communication - Abstract
This text analyzes and examines theoretically and empirically what is now a matter of a serious discussion in the national academic environment around the production, diffusion and dissemination of scientific academic research: Do basic research activities contribute significantly to the progress in training of specialized personnel? If so, what role do academic diffusion products have as a teaching strategy in the area of communication studies in undergraduate and graduate programs? The objective was to evaluate the internal consistency and reliability of a theoretical scale that measures the production and scientific diffusion of communication in the higher education environment. A questionnaire with thirteen manifest variables was applied in a sample of 66 undergraduate and graduate professors in the area of Communication Sciences in a public university in of Mexico. The results confirm that a reliable instrument was available with data consistent with the validity of the scale. The evidence presented concludes that there are some causes to explain why undergraduate and graduate professional teaching and training are disconnected from research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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