Industrial engineering student competency mediation model: analysis from the perspective of educational psychology

• Autores: Iraola Arroyo, Juan Alonso, Iraola-Real, Ivan
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
• Repositorio: UTP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.utp.edu.pe:20.500.12867/7013
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12867/7013; https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v13i2.34499
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Engineering students; Educational psychology; Context analysis; Decision making; Planning; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.03.01; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.00.00

This paper proposes a new managerial skill called contextual search, which is the ability to study the national and international socio-economic reality and which is the basis for deci-sion making and planning. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the predictive influence between contextual research, decision making, and planning skills in Industrial Engineering students of a private university in Lima, Peru. The sample included 150 students pursuing an industrial engineering career: 84 men (56%) and 66 women (44%). The age of the participants ranged from 16 to 31 years (mean age 19.77; standard deviation 4.50). The results showed that all three skills were significantly related and predicted simultaneously. Nevertheless, it identified that the decision-making skill mediates the predictive relationship between context finding and planning. Thus, it is understood that future industrial engineers can plan well if they have previously developed the context-finding and decision-making skills.