Pilot Study: Relevance of Normative and Investigative Learning of the Professional in Administration

Abstract

Professional training in management has two perspectives in its observation; from what is proposed and done in the training centers and what the productive sector requires. Therefore, a challenge for educational institutions is to assess the relevance of learning outcomes. This study evaluates the learning outcomes related to the regulations and formative research of the professional in administration from the perception of employers in order to know their relevance. It is a research of quantitative approach that allowed to know, with numerical results, the level of relevance of the professional training in administrators. In particular, two variables related to research and normative are worked on. It began with the recognition and written declarations of learning outcomes by teachers from their disciplinary areas; subsequently, the Likert scale instrument is designed; then, it is applied to a sample of 224 bosses who employ graduate students from a private university in Bogotá. The level of convenience that is presented from the productive sector against the learning outcomes that are worked on in the training of administrators in the investigative and normative is at a general level high at 76%.