STUDY SKILLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The paper describes the research developed in the Superior Technological Institute of City Constitution, in which were studied three generations of entrance, with the purpose of identifying the recurrence of the weaknesses of the students in the skills of study and their relation with the scholastic desertion, in order to present them between the teaching staff, so that the opportune measures within the scholastic strategies were taken.  The instrument applied in the research considered like dimensions: organization, techniques and motivation for the study and it was used for the identification of study habits. Between the obtained results they stand out, that the students again entrance, in first and second semester, present more weaknesses with respect to organization and techniques of study, for that reason is necessary that the teachers include in their didactic strategy, activities that favors them, some of which they are exemplified in the article.