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AUTHORS:
Vener D. Decena, PhD
DOI: 10.5110/77. 1115 Page: 170-179 Vol: 19 Issue: 02 Year: 2024
ABSTRACT
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate non-board courses students’ attitudes towards research and to explore the factors (Usefulness of Research, Anxiety about Research, and Positive Research Disposition). A total of one-hundred seventy-six (N=176) non-board courses college students enrolled in selected State University and Colleges in Region III were purposively sampled. The participants are in their late adolescent age, female, mostly were third year college level students in AB Economics. The Revised Attitude towards Research (R-ATR) scale was used to measure the respondent’s attitude towards research and significant differences among its demographics were also identified. However, among the three subscales, the Anxiety about Research subscale had established its influence on it. In this case, 18 to 21 years old had significantly higher levels of anxiety. While in terms of the significant difference between respondents’ gender, different non-board courses and year level, it shows no effect on students’ attitudes towards research and its subscales. As a result, evidence on the attitudes of non-board course college students attending selected state universities and colleges in Region III, highlighting that their positive predispositions toward research have a moderately positive significant relationship to the usefulness of research to their courses, implying that the more positive predispositions toward research, the more they tend to perceive the usefulness of research to their courses.
Keywords:
Non-board courses, Attitude towards Research, Usefulness of Research, Anxiety about Research, and Positive Research Disposition.
Received: 26 January 2024
Accepted: 15 February 2024
Published: 23 February 2024
