Thinking about citizen education in university students, dimensions for the construction of a questionnaire

Abstract

Taking into account that since 2016 there is a law on citizen training in Chile, the objective of this work is to present partial results of a quantitative research financed by the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, mainly the conceptual dimensions of the theoretical model used for the construction of a questionnaire and the result of the content evaluation carried out through the validation of expert judges. Citizenship is culturally constructed, so it is important to identify what young people understand and how they project their role as educators, as well as their contribution to society in this area. Citizenship formation is an area of knowledge that is as much a part of the educational system as the disciplines of the social and natural sciences that are integrated into the curriculum as indicated by the paradigmatic trends of each society and its context. The work methodology is quantitative, through a questionnaire, with content validation and construct validation. The proposed theoretical model is constructed through categories of analysis associated with knowledge of the country's political system, the development of prosocial competencies and skills, and education in values. This paper develops the process of content validation of the questionnaire through expert judges, since the research is still in progress.