Learning strategies and Academic Goals to Strengthen Competencies in Electronics and Digital Circuits in Engineering Students

Learning strategies and Academic Goals to Strengthen Competencies in Electronics and Digital Circuits in Engineering Students

Volume 6, Issue 1, Page No 87-98, 2021

Author’s Name: Maritza Cabana-Caceres1,a), Cristian Castro-Vargas1, Laberiano Andrade-Arenas1, Monica Romero-Valencia1, Haydee Castro-Vargas2

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1Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades, Lima, 27, Peru
2Faculty of Psychology, Federico Villareal National University, Lima, 15082, Peru

a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mcabana@uch.edu.pe

Adv. Sci. Technol. Eng. Syst. J. 6(1), 87-98 (2021); a  DOI: 10.25046/aj060110

Keywords: Learning strategies, Academic goals, Competencies, Electronics

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The purpose of this article was to determine the incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in the competences of the curricular experience of electronics and digital circuits in engineering students of a private university in Lima, Peru. The objective was to explain how learning strategies and academic goals explain the behavior of engineering students of competencies in electronics and digital circuits. For this study, a sample of 89 students from the III cycle was used, to whom the ACRA test instruments were applied for the learning strategies of Román and Gallego (2001), the CMA academic goals test of Durán and Arias (2015) and a test to assess skills in electronics and digital circuits. According to the results obtained, it was shown that learning strategies and academic goals affect the skills of electronics and digital circuits in engineering students. By obtaining x2 = 83.782, (p = .000 <0.05 and Wald = 16.326 showing that the proposed model is acceptable

Received: 06 October 2020, Accepted: 21 December 2020, Published Online: 10 January 2021

1.Introduction

With globalization and the increasing ease of obtaining information, in Peru in most higher education institutions there is still a large gap in how to carry out an adequate learning strategy despite having the information at hand, regulatory bodies such as the National Superintendency of Higher Education SUNEDU [1] and the accreditation of the System of Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality SINEACE [2] concerned about this, they try to implement norms so that educational institutions comply with basic quality standards, in this context, university education is in a process of educational reform to a model based on competencies, which they find it difficult to implement while maintaining the traditional teaching  [3].

Thus at the national level, although access to university education and the level of skills as indicated is improving, there are still low levels of quality standards also at the international level, reflecting students with weak skills, low performance and insertion problems and job retention [4]. Several universities are still in the process of licensing and accreditation, so they are carrying out their curricular restructuring, to achieve a coherent curriculum to the institutional educational model, in an integrated manner according to the socio-economic, political, cultural context, in the local scope. framework, regional and global [5]. In this sense, a student who does not exercise his skills acquired in the workplace becomes a stranger to his specialty, unable to continue developing his skills [6].

This situation is aggravated, because engineering careers require strong ICT skills, not only for students but also for teachers [7] who, when developing their classes with a curricular program that does not include ICT due to lack of training in the teaching staff and the low implementation of devices and laboratory equipment, it becomes a challenge [8]. In this sense, in a private university of Lima, in the course of electronics and digital circuits of the engineering faculty, passive students were observed in the development of the required competences, presenting deficiencies in the disciplinary knowledge of electronics and digital circuits , having fragmented learning. and not integrated into their professional training, losing interest in the subject, consequently, not being able to solve specialty problems when carrying out their pre-professional and / or work practices, which prevents them from successfully facing the demands of a dynamic real world. In this sense, it shows the need to implement and apply learning strategies and academic goals that address the indicated weaknesses, aimed at seeking the development of effective skills in electronics and digital circuits and in future engineering students that allows them to exercise in a integrated. the significant learning acquired during their academic training stage at the university.

The need to implement and apply learning strategies and academic goals that address the identified weaknesses is shown, aimed at seeking the development of effective skills in electronics and digital circuits and in future engineering students that allows them to exercise in an integrated manner. The significant learning acquired during their academic training stage at the university.

For example, in Chile, it was found that learning goals and the attribution of academic success to effort have higher statistics. highlighted with respect to academic performance, this allows identifying and considering these dimensions in student support programs to promote academic achievement [9].

Also in Colombia, they obtained the existence of positive and significant correlations in study habits, learning strategies and academic performance, where the importance of using learning strategies as study habits to promote academic performance was highlighted, so both recommended creating intervention and support programs for strengthening in these areas [10].

The students from the Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, were analyzed with a survey on the use of Arduino technology and a competency learning test. The research resulted in a significant correlation with a Spearman coefficient equal to 0.702 and a p value of 0.01, showing that the use of Arduino technology improves the development of students’ skills in their learning [11].

Thus, in another private university of Lima, 96 students from the Faculty of Engineering were applied the instruments of the CMA Academic Goals questionnaire and Form 5 of Self-concept, determining from the results an r (96) = .205, p = .046 of the variables, with which it can be said that there is a relationship weak and significant positive between academic goals and self-concept, which means that high goals will be weakly related to high self-concept [12].

On the other hand, in a study of 290 students from the National University of San Marcos, it allowed to clarify the association between the learning strategies variables, motivation in relation to the explained variable of the study to predict the application of certain learning strategies, cognitive and metacognitive factors in students as indicators and decisive determinants to achieve reading comprehension [13].

The variables that we propose to study are expressed, the first study variable being learning strategies, there are different definitions, stating that it is a metacognitive, planned and conscious process of the subject in a given situation, influenced by the individual’s perceptions to achieve optimal learning [14]. Given the above, it is reinforced that the strategies adopted by the students are sequentially concatenated and deliberately planned, in order to achieve the learning of the required task [15]. It can also be said that it is a process of sequence of decisions of the subject in a conscious and intentional state, in which the student deliberately decides and recovers knowledge, which requires the performance of a certain activity [16].

Another variable of study is the variable academic goals that is defined as the purposes proposed by the students, which guide their intentions and actions to obtain their achievements before certain academic activities using the necessary resources. Likewise, it is indicated that they are the objectives that students want to achieve through planning, which will be their action to have a better understanding according to the complexity of the goal, for the solution of the academic activities to be developed [17].

Likewise, they are an integrated and organized pattern of thoughts and reasons that a management produces for a context of achievement, which includes the thoughts of competence, success, competitiveness, effort, errors and evaluation of its objectives to be fulfilled in the classroom [18] .

The last variable of studies competences of electronic and digital circuits, according to the Electronic Engineering curriculum with a major in Telecommunications of the Private University of Lima [19], mentions that the competences are the set of related knowledge, skills, attitudes and values with each other, in an integral way, that the student develops in the university to perform in academic activities and professional practice, in accordance with the standards of their specialty under the social, political, economic and labor context that governs it.

Posing the problem general research which is: What incidence exists between the learning strategies and the academic goals in the electronic and digital circuits competences in a Private University Lima, 2020? Regarding the specific problems, the following are established:

(a) What impact do the learning strategies and academic goals have on basic electronics and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020? (b) What impact do the learning strategies and academic goals have on the electrical components of electronic and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020? (c) What impact do the learning strategies and academic goals have on the hardware and digital circuits of the arduino electronics at the Universidad Privada Lima, 2020? (d) What impact do learning strategies and academic goals have on arduino electronics and digital circuits software at a Private University Lima, 2020?

For its part, the general objective set for this research is to determine the incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in the competencies of the subject of electronics and circuits in a private university Lima, Peru, and its specific objectives that are considered for the present investigation are: (a) establish the relationship between learning strategies and academic goals in basic electronics and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020 (b) establish the relationship between learning strategies and academic goals in electrical components of electronics and digital circuits in a Private University of Lima, 2020 (c) establish the relationship between learning strategies and academic goals in arduino electronic hardware and digital circuits in a Private University of Lima, 2020 (d) establish the relationship between learning strategies and academic goals in arduino electronics and digital circuit software at a Private University Lima, 2020.

2. Methodology

The present investigation was of a quantitative approach because each stage proceeds to the next and the steps cannot be ignored, it is possible to define and limit them, in addition, it is known exactly where the problem begins, data collection was also carried out, to measure the variables learning strategies and skills of electronics and digital circuits in numerical expressions and were analyzed with statistical methods.

2.1. Variables operationalization

 For the learning strategies, 119 questions were used (see appendix), on a Likert scale, with 5 dimensions and a total of 9 indicators (Table 1).

Table 1: Operationalization of variable learning strategies

Dimensions Indicators Items Scale Levels or ranges
1. Acquisition 1.1 Attentional strategies 1 – 10 A:

Never (1)

 

B: Sometimes (2)

 

C: Many times (3)

 

D: Always (4)

Low

119 – 277

 

Moderate

278 – 437

 

High

438 – 595

1.2 Repetition strategies 11 – 20
2.Codification 2.1 Mnemonization strategies 21 – 42
2.2 Processing strategies 43 – 63
2.3 Organizational strategies 64 – 66
3.recovery 3.1 Search strategies 67 – 75
3.2 Response generation strategies 76 – 84
4.Support 4.1 Metacognitive strategies 85-101
4.2 Socio-affective strategies 102-119

Regarding academic goals, 16 questions were used, on a Likert scale, with 3 dimensions and a total of 8 indicators (Table 2). And for the electronic and digital circuits competences, 20 questions were measured, on a dichotomous scale, with 4 dimensions and 12 indicators in total (Table 3).

Table 2: Operationalization of the variable academic goals

Dimensions Indicators Items Scale Levels or ranges
1. Learning objectives 1.1.   Problem solving 1-3 1: Strongly disagree

2: disagree

3: Neither agree nor disagree

4: agree

5: Strongly agree

 

Low

16 – 37

Moderate

38 – 59

High

60 – 80

 

1.2.   Progressive learning 4 – 7
2. Achievement objectives 2.1. Academic achievement 8–9
2.2. Professional achievement 10
2.3. Personal achievement 11
3.Objectives of social reinforcement 3.1. Social recognition 12, 14
3.2. Classroom stimulation 13, 16
3.3. Superior approval 15

2.2. Population

A census population, composed of 89 students, from the third cycle of the engineering faculty of the University of Sciences and Humanities, 2020- I was studied.

2.3. Techniques, data collection instruments, validity and reliability

The instruments of the Roman and Gallegos Acra Test (see appendix) were applied to the students to evaluate the learning strategies, as well as the CMA questionnaire of Durán (2015) to evaluate their academic goals and finally a test was carried out to measure the competencies of electronics and digital circuits. The information collected was then transferred to a database in Excel and to the statistical program SPSS version 23, which will allow us to perform the data analysis.

Table 3: Operationalization of the variable competencies of electronic and digital circuits

Dimensions Indicators Items Scale Level ranges
1. Basic electronics 1.1. Identify the theoretical concepts of electricity. 1-2  

 

 

Dichotomic

1:

Right

0:

Incorrect

In the beginning

00-10

 

In process

11 – 14

 

Achieved 15 – 18

 

Exceptional

19 – 20

1.2. You have an idea of ​​what electrical resistance is. 3
1.3 Define and develop basic exercises of electrical circuits 4 – 5
2. Electrical components 2.1. Define the diode concept 7
2.2. Define the concept of transistor 6 – 8
2.3. Identify and solve circuits with diodes and transistors. 9 – 10
3.Arduino hardware 3.1. Defines the theoretical concept of 11
3.2. Arduino general concepts details 12
3.3. Identify the characteristics of the arduino board. 13 – 15
4. Arduino software 4.1. Describe the general structure of a sketch. 16
4.2. Analyze instructions 17 – 18
4.3. Identify the serial communication with the arduino board 19 – 20

The educational data mining technique is a tool that also allows data collection and analysis for subsequent decision-making, which is also suitable for evaluating groups of students, with the advantage of being able to cover a large number of data, as is the case of this investigation that has 119 questions for the study, for the case of the present investigation the data will be analyzed using SPSS.

Regarding the validation of the instruments, the content validity of the expert judgment was carried out and for the reliability a pilot test of a sample of 20 students of the electronics and digital circuits subject was used, the statistical values ​​verified the reliability of instruments (Table 4).

Table 4: Reliability of the instrument

Variables Statistics Reliability Value No. of elements
Learning strategies Cronbach’s alpha 0.857 119
Academic goals Cronbach’s alpha 0.851 16
Competences in electronics and digital circuits Kuder-Richardson 0.8179 20

3. Results

The results obtained from the study are shown below.

3.1. Description of the learning strategies variable

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Table 5: Levels of variable learning strategies

    Frequency Percentage
Valid Low 26 29.3
Moderate 48 53.9
High 15 16.8
Total 89 100

Figure 1: Levels of the learning strategies variable

      Table 5 and Figure 1 show the percentage values ​​of the learning strategies variable, of a total of 89 students. With the results obtained, it can be seen that the learning strategies tend to be moderate with 53.9%.

Table 6: Levels of dimensions of learning strategies

    Low Moderate High Total
Acquisition Frequency 15 54 20 89
Percentage 16.8 60.7 22.5 100
Coding Frequency 13 59 17 89
Percentage 14.6 66.3 19.1 100
Recovery Frequency 16 53 20 89
Percentage 17.9 59.6 22.5 100
Support for Frequency 18 49 22 89
Percentage 20.2 55.1 24.7 100

3.2. Description of the dimensions of the learning strategies

      Table 6 and figure 2 show the percentage values ​​of the dimensions of the learning strategies, of a total of 89 students. From these results, it is estimated that the support dimension with more than 24% presents the best results compared to the other dimensions.

Figure 2: Levels of the dimensions of learning strategies

3.3.  Description of variable academic goals

      Table 7 and Figure 3 show the percentage values ​​of the variable academic goals, of a total of 89 students. With the results obtained, it can be seen that the level of perception of academic goals has a trend of moderate level with more than 60%.

Table 7: Levels of variable academic goals

    Frequency Percentage
Valid Low 12 13.5
Moderate 55 61.8
High 22 24.7
Total 89 100

Figure 3: Levels of the academic goals variable

3.4. Description of the dimensions of the academic goals

Table 8 and Figure 4 show the percentage values of the academic goals dimension of a total of 89 students. Based on these results, it is estimated that the achievement goals dimension presents better results with more than 30% compared to the other dimensions.

Table 8: Levels of the dimensions of academic goals

    Low Moderate High Total
Learning goals Frequency fifteen 46 28 89
Percentage 16.8 51.7 31.5 100
Achievement goals Frequency 10 48 31 89
Percentage 11.3 53.9 34.8 100
Objectives of social reinforcement Frequency 15 45 29 89
Percentage 16.7 50.7 32.6 100

Figure 4: Levels of the academic goals dimensions

3.5. Description of the electronic and digital circuits skills variable

     Table 9 and Figure 5 show the percentage values ​​of the variable dimensions of electronics and digital circuits, of a total of 89 students, which shows a trend of students at the level reached with less than 70%.

Figure 5: Dimension levels of electronic and digital circuits competencies

Table 9: Levels of electronic and digital circuits variable competencies

    Frequency Percentage
Valid In the beginning 5 5.6
In process 11 12.4
Accomplished 59 66.3
Exceptional 14 15.7
Total 89 100

3.6. Description of the competencies dimensions of electronics and digital circuits

Table 10 and Figure 6 show the percentage values ​​of the dimensions of competencies in electronics and digital circuits, of a total of 89 students. From these results, it is estimated that the arduino software dimension has low outstanding results with less than 12% compared to the other dimensions.

Table 10: Dimensional Competency Levels for Electronic and Digital Circuits

    Initial In process Accomplished In

outgoing

Total
Basic electronic Frequency 1 5 67 16 89
Percentage              1.1 5.6 75.3 18.0 100
Electric components Frequency 3 9 65 12 89
Percentage 3.4 10.1 73.0 13.5 100
Arduino Hardware Frequency                 5 11 60 13 89
Percentage 5.6 12.4 67.4 14.6        100
Arduino software Frequency 8 14 57 10 89
Percentage 9.0 15.7 64.0 11.3 100

Figure 6: Dimension levels of electronic and digital circuits competencies

3.7. Contrast of the general hypothesis

Ho: There is no incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in electronic skills and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

HG: There is an incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in electronic skills and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

Table 11: Model fit and likelihood ratio tests for the general hypothesis

Model fit information
Model Logarithm of probability -2 Chi squared gl S.I.G
Interception only 286,034
Final 202,251 83,782 36 , 000

Table 11 shows that the value x2 = 83.782, (p = .000 <0.05), indicates that the proposed model is acceptable. In this sense, the null hypothesis is rejected, with a probability of error less than 5%.

Table 12: Pseudo R squared of general hypothesis

Pseudo R squared
Cox and Snell , 610
Nagelkerke , 630
McFadden , 272

Table 13: Parameter estimates of the general hypothesis

  Estimate S.I.G Wald 95%

interval

trustworthy

Min Max
[V3_ Competences of electronics and digital circuits = 1] -9,224 , 000 25,904 -12,776 -5,672
[V3_Competencies of electronics and digital circuits = 2] -7,549 , 000 24,350 -10,547 -4,550
[V1_Learning strategies = 1] -9,918 , 000 16,326 -14,728 -5.107
[V1_Learning strategies = 2] -4,936 , 001 11,346 -7,808 -2,064
[V2_Academic Goals = 1] -3,348 .014 6,053 -6,016 – .681
[V2_Academic Goals = 2] -2,624 .038 4,311 -5.101 -. 147

Table 12 presents favorable values ​​of pseudo R squared, which ensures a fit adequate of the proposed model to explain competencies in electronics and digital circuits. Similarly, it is stated that learning strategies is the variable that affects the most, since it presents a value of Wald = 16.326 and p = .000 <0.05 (Table 13).

  • Specific hypothesis test 1

Ho: There is no incidence between the learning strategies and the academic goals in the basic electronics of electronics and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

H1: There is an incidence between the learning strategies and the academic goals in the basic electronics of electronics and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

Table 14 shows that the value x2 = 61.281, (p = .005 <0.05), indicates that the proposed model is acceptable. In this sense, the null hypothesis is rejected with a probability of error less than 5%.

Table 14: Model fit and likelihood ratio tests for specific hypothesis 1

Model fit information
Model Logarithm of probability -2 Chi squared gl S.I.G
Interception only 182,351
Final 121,070 61,281 36 , 005

Table 15: Pseudo R squared for specific hypothesis 1

Pseudo R squared
Cox and Snell , 498
Nagelkerke , 557
McFadden , 307

Table 15 presents favorable pseudo R squared values, which ensures an adequate fit of the proposed model to explain skills in electronics and digital circuits.

Likewise, learning strategies is the variable that most affects basic electronics of the explained variable with a value of Wald = 21.485 and p = .000 <0.05 (Table 16).

Table 16: Parameter estimates for general hypothesis 1

  Estimate S.I.G Wald 95%

interval

trustworthy

Min Max
[V3D1_ basic electronics of electronics and digital circuits= 1] -5,632 , 000 29,959 -9,130 -2,134
[V3D1_ basic electronics of electronics and digital circuits= 2] -5,268 , 003 23,538 -10,116 -, 421
[V1_Learning strategies= 1] -2,931 , 000 21,485 -6,007 , 146
[V1_Learning strategies= 2] -2,356 .014 10,547 -6,069 1,356
[V2_Academic goals= 1] -1,659 , 004 18,217 -4,606 1,289
[V2_Academic goals= 2] 1,415 , 005 16,788 -1,710 4,539

       Table 15 presents favorable pseudo R squared values, which ensures an adequate fit of the proposed model to explain skills in electronics and digital circuits.

        Likewise, learning strategies is the variable that most affects basic electronics of the explained variable with a value of Wald = 21.485 and p = .000 <0.05 (Table 16).

  • Specific hypothesis test 2

Ho: There is no incidence between the learning strategies and the academic goals in the electrical components of electronics and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

H2: There is an incidence between the learning strategies and the academic goals in the electrical components of electronics and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

Table 17: Model fit tests and likelihood ratio for specific hypothesis 2

Model fit information
Model Logarithm of probability -2 Chi squared gl S.I.G
Interception only 180,100
Final 126,963 53,136 36 .033

Table 17 shows that the value x2 = 53.136, (p = .033 <0.05), indicates that the proposed model serves to explain the dependent behavior of the variable competencies of electronic and digital circuits with respect to electrical circuits. In this sense, the null hypothesis is rejected with a probability of error less than 5%.

Table 18: Pseudo R squared for specific hypothesis 2

Pseudo R squared
Cox and Snell , 450
Nagelkerke , 504
McFadden , 269

Table 18 presents favorable pseudo R squared values, which ensures an adequate fit of the proposed model to explain skills in electronics and digital circuits. Likewise, academic goals is the variable that most affects the electrical components of the explained variable with a value of Wald = 16.073 and p = .004 <0.05 (Table 19).

Table 19: Parameter estimates for general hypothesis 2

  Estimate S.I.G Wald 95%

interval

trustworthy

Min Max
[V3D2_ electrical components of electronic and digital circuits= 1] -6,288 , 001 11,176 -9,974 -2,601
[V3D2_ electrical components of electronic and digital circuits= 1] -3,936 , 001 16,531 -6,955 -, 917
[V1_Learning strategies= 1] -5,317 .020 14,725 -10,111 -, 523
[V1_Learning strategies= 2] -2,856 , 051 8,371 -7,635 1,924
[V2_Academic goals_ = 1] -2,151 .042 9,985 -5,143 , 841
[V2_Academic goals= 2] -3,130 , 004 16,073 -5,620 – .641
  • Specific hypothesis test 3

Ho: There is no incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in arduino electronics hardware and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

H3: There is an incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in arduino electronics hardware and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

Table 20: Model fit and likelihood ratio tests for specific hypothesis 3

Model fit information
Model Logarithm of probability -2 Chi squared gl S.I.G
Interception only 170,545
Final 79,648 90,897 36 , 000

Table 20 shows that the value x2 = 90.897, (p = .033 <0.05), indicates that the proposed model serves to explain the dependent behavior of the competence variable of the electronic and digital circuit with respect to the Arduino hardware. In this sense, the null hypothesis is rejected with a probability of error less than 5%.

Table 21: Pseudo R squared for specific hypothesis 3

Pseudo R squared
Cox and Snell , 640
Nagelkerke , 730
McFadden , 487

Table 21 presents favorable pseudo R squared values, which ensures an adequate fit of the proposed model to explain skills in electronics and digital circuits. Likewise, the learning strategies is the variable that most affects the Arduino hardware of the explained variable with a value of Wald = 6.568 and p = .010 <0.05 (Table 22).

Table 22: Parameter estimates of the general hypothesis 4

  Estimate S.I.G Wald 95% interval

trustworthy

Min Max
[V3D3_ arduino hardware for electronic and digital circuits = 1] -8,390 , 001 11,715 -13,194 -3,585
[V3D3_ arduino hardware for electronic and digital circuits = 2] -5.083 .015 5,924 -9,176 -, 990
[V1_Learning strategies = 1] -4,173 .010 6,568 -7,365 – .982
[V1_Learning strategies = 2] -3,431 .046 3,996 -6,795 – .067
[V2_Academic Goals = 1] -3,142 .077 3,132 -6,621 , 337
[V2_Academic Goals = 2] -5,295 .020 5,439 -9,746 -, 845
  • Specific hypothesis test 4

H1: There is no incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in arduino electronics software and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

H2: There is an incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in arduino electronics software and digital circuits in a Private University Lima, 2020.

Table 23: Model fit tests and likelihood ratio for specific hypothesis 4

Model fit information
Model Logarithm of probability -2 Chi squared gl S.I.G
Interception only 187,849
Final 123,641 64,208 36 , 003

      Table 23 shows that the value x2 = 64.208, (p = .003 <0.05), indicates that the proposed model serves to explain the behavior dependent on the variable competencies of electronic and digital circuits referred to Arduino software. In this sense, the null hypothesis is rejected with a probability of error less than 5%.

Table 24: Pseudo R squared for specific hypotheses 4

Pseudo R squared
Cox and Snell , 514
Nagelkerke , 574
McFadden , 319

Table 24 presents favorable pseudo R squared values, which ensures an adequate fit of the proposed model to explain skills in electronics and digital circuits. Likewise, learning strategies is the variable that most affects the Arduino software of the explained variable with a value of Wald = 9.624 and p = .023 <0.05 (Table 25).

Table 25: Parameter estimates for general hypothesis 4

  Estimate S.I.G Wald 95% interval

trustworthy

Min Max
[V3D4_ arduino software for electronic and digital circuits= 1] -. 186 , 003 13,017 -2,951 2,579
[V3D4_ arduino software for electronic and digital circuits= 2] – .453 , 009 11,103 -. 225 2,319
[V1_Learning strategies= 1] -3,556 .023 9,624 -6,797 -, 315
[V1_Learning strategies= 2] -1,163 .048 8,580 4,156 1,830
[V2_Academic goals= 1] -. 822 .042 9,266 3,946 2,301
[V2_Academic goals= 2] , 654 , 051 7,184 -2,334 3,643

4. Discussion

With reference to the general objective set, satisfactory values ​​of x2 = 83.782, (p = .000 <0.05), McFadden of 0.272, Nagelkerke of 63%, Cox and Snell of 61% and a Wald value of 16.326 were obtained. Indicating that the estimated model serves to explain the behavior of the dependent variable, being an adequate model, evidencing the rejection of the null hypothesis and admitting the incidence of learning strategies and academic goals in relation to the variable electronic competences and digital circuits. By virtue of this, they reaffirm the results obtained from the electronic and digital circuits competences with a tendency to be achieved with less than 70% of the engineering students of a Private University of Lima, 2020. In addition, The arduino software was estimated with more than 11% of the analyzed students presented low outstanding results compared to the other dimensions, which shows a profile of the student with deficiency in being able to develop skills in the description of a structure of the arduino software in the sktech. IDE, analysis of the arduino software instructions and achieve serial communication by connecting electronic devices to the arduino board, based on the data collected from the instrument application. On the other hand, the learning strategies show a moderate trend with more than 50% of the students, and it was evidenced that the support learning strategy presented the best results with a high level of more than 24% of the students compared to the rest of your group, according to the Roman y Gallego ACRA test instrument (see appendix) applied. Likewise, the academic goals presented a moderate trend concentrating more than 60% of the students, being the achievement goal the one that presented the best results with more than 30% in the high level compared to the others in their group, according to the respondents to the the Durán CMA Test.

      Similarly, the dependent variable of the research presented an incidence of 63% of variability with respect to the explanatory variables in students, which means that learning strategies and academic goals are important so that higher-level students can optimally develop your skills in electronics and digital. circuits for their good academic performance in a comprehensive and professional manner, in that sense they can successfully face the demands of the labor market, it should also be noted that the value of Wald showed that learning strategies have a greater explanatory force of incidence, so that these guide to a better development of the electronic and digital circuit competencies of the students compared to the academic goals, in addition,

With reference to the specific objectives, it was admitted that there is an incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in basic electronics, arduino hardware and software electrical circuits and arduino electronics digital circuits in Engineering students, Universidad Privada de Lima, 2020. No however, for basic electronics, in comparison with the other dimensions, satisfactory inferential values ​​of x2 = 61.281, (p = .005 <0.05), Nagelkerke of 55.7% and Wald of 21.485 were obtained. This means that the learning strategies have a greater explanatory force of incidence for the basic electronic dimension compared to the other dimensions.

5. Conclusions

It was evidenced that the strategies of learning and academic goals affect the competences of electronic and digital circuits in engineering students, Universidad Privada Lima 2020. Due to acceptable values ​​it was found of x2 = 83.782, (p = .000 <0.05) and Wald = 16.326 showing that the proposed model is plausible.

It was verified that the strategies of learning and academic goals affect basic electronics and digital circuits in Engineering students, Private University, 2020. Due to the favorable values ​​obtained of x2 = 61.281, (p = .005 <0.05) and Wald = 21.485, which indicates that the proposed model is acceptable.

It was found that learning strategies and academic goals affect the electrical components of electronics and digital circuits in Engineering students, Private University, 2020. By favorable values ​​of x2 = 53.136, (p = .033 <0.05) and Wald = 16.073, indicating that the proposed model is acceptable.

It was shown that the strategies of learning and academic objectives affect the hardware of Arduino electronics and digital circuits in Engineering students, Private University, 2020. Due to the value obtained from x2 = 90.897, (p = .000 <0.05) and Wald = 6.568, it which indicates that the proposed model is acceptable.

It is finally concluded that learning strategies and academic goals affect arduino electronics and digital circuits software in Engineering students, Private University, 2020. Due to the acquired value of x2 = 64.208, (p = .003 <0.05) and Wald = 9.624, indicating that the proposed model is acceptable.

It was considered that there is an option that allows to dynamically cover a large volume of data, as well as flexible for educational environments, known as educational data mining  [20].

6.       Recommendations

It is recommended that the academic directors of the Private University establish institutional guidelines in their curricular plans for the implementation, incorporation and application of learning strategies and academic goals so that engineering students can effectively develop electronic and digital circuit skills, having significant learning.

The academic coordinator of engineering of the Private University is suggested to carry out activity programs for students of electronics and digital circuits in which topics of learning strategies and academic goals are developed in such a way that they can apply it in the subject and help them to develop. your core competencies in electronics, electrical components, arduino software, and arduino hardware.

It is proposed that the engineering professors of the Private University encourage their students of electronics and digital circuits in their pedagogical practices to use learning strategies, such as the acquisition, coding, retrieval and support of information, in the sense of raising skills and learning from the subject and achieve their academic goals.

New methods are recommended to better cover teaching strategies and thus avoid possible dropouts that may motivate students to drop out of college, such as an educational data mining option [21].

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