Model of Activities for the Mastery of Research Skills in Higher Education in Ecuador

This paper presents a model of activities to master research skills in higher education students. Research skills are considered as the construction and reconstruction of knowledge that involves the optimal management of actions derived from the social interaction of the subject with the object of knowledge. Various methodologies were used to obtain information, such as analysis-synthesis to examine the particularities of research skills; and inductive-deductive to systematize the different theories on research skills. As a result of this bibliographical research, it was determined that the research skills that should be worked in Higher Education from the teaching-learning process as a fundamental basis in the different areas of knowledge are the identification of problems, the search for information, the processing of data and the communication of results. University students need to master scientific research to contribute to improving their academic development and likewise for the progress of the country.