The meanings that college students construct about their possibilities and difficulties in the process of elaborating their undergraduate thesis. A qualitative study at a private university in the province of San Juan, Argentina The perspective of the director of a research program on undergraduate students in the process of elaborating their final project at a private university in San Juan, Argentina

Abstract

This article presents the findings of an investigation that investigates the meanings that undergraduate students construct about the process of preparing theses of a private university in the province of San Juan, Argentina.

In this sense, dimensions associated with the possibilities, difficulties, emotional states, among other factors that students experience in the accompaniment by their directors and / or tutors, are analyzed.
It is an exploratory-descriptive research of a qualitative nature. Based on the discourses of the institutional actors, the objective aims to reconstruct the meaning of the process of preparation of theses of students of an undergraduate degree.

Among the data collection instruments, participant observation and in-depth interviews are used, these techniques that will be confronted with narrative records and mechanical records such as documentary information.

Among the results achieved, it is concluded that the meanings that are built in the process of preparing a thesis are multiple and sometimes contradictory. Difficulties and shortcomings in the written production of a scientific and methodological text stand out. These difficulties affect both groups of students, youth and adults, differently.