Research Attitudes and Their Correlates Among Undergraduate Social Work Students

Learning to become evidence based social workers: student views on research education and implementation in practice

“…Comparable findings have been reported internationally (e.g. Negrea, et al, 2018) and for students across social sciences disciplines and not just in professional focused courses such as social work. It appears, from the literature, that research methods as a core subject in the social sciences has a poor reputation but, as argued by Earley (2014), where these negative attitudes originate from, especially amongst students with no prior learning in research, has not been fully investigated.…”

“…Research over the past three decades suggests that social work students find learning research and evaluation skills particularly challenging (Wike, et al, 2019) and can be ambivalent in their attitudes towards research (and subsequent evidence produced from research) more generally (Negrea, et al, 2018;Secret, et al, 2003;). Elliott, Choi and Friedline (2013) describe an 'environment of reluctance' (p.81) surrounding the learning of research methods and statistics in social work programmes.…”

“…Internationally, the literature reports high levels of research anxiety amongst social sciences, including social work, students (Maschi, et al, 2013;Negrea, et al, 2018). Anxiety appears to be the most significant factor affecting student attitudes to research methods when measured, explaining more than 45% of variance in one study (Papanastasiou & Zembylas, 2008), suggesting a need to address student anxiety in the first instance to improve attitudes to research overall.…”

Pengaruh Research Attitude terhadap Pemenuhan Level of Reseach Urgensity sebagai Pengembangan Penalaran Pedagogis Mahasiswa Kependidikan

“…Hal ini secara tidak langsung mengartikan bahwa mahasiswa cenderung memiliki pemikiran dan perasaan negatif terhadap kegiatan penelitian. Seperti yang diungkapkan Bolin, Lee, Glenmaye & Yoon (2012); Negrea et al (2018) bahwa perasaan negatif tersebut termasuk cemas akan kegagalan, ketidakmampuan memenuhi tuntutan institusi, dan penilaian kurang menarik dari dosen pebimbing atau orang lain tentang konsep yang diajukan, metode penelitian yang terlalu sederhana, maupun pengunaan analisis statistik dasar. Padahal seharsnya mahasiswa tingkat akhir harus memiliki research attitude positif untuk memenuhi tuntutan kepenulisan berkualitas atau level of research urgensity.…”