The Supervised Professional Exercise as a final evaluation method in the Faculty of Economic Sciences

Abstract

The article summarizes the methodology used in a mixed sequential explanatory research (qualitative-quantitative, with quantitative preponderance), on the subject “The EPS Supervised Professional Exercise as a final evaluation method, in the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala “, Based on Cook & Reichardt (2005: 28), the quantitative model was used, where a hypothetical deductive hypothetical global positivist conception was obtained and with the qualitative model it postulated itself to a global phenomenological, inductive, structuralist, subjective conception, oriented to the own process of social anthropology. On the quantitative methodology, the neopositivism of the Vienna Circle was used and for the qualitative methodology based on the theory based on Glaser and Strauss, to make a combination of data that gave scientific support to the research carried out. The advantages offered by the mixed method were to obtain a broad and deep perspective in the development of the study on the EPS, due to the fact that quantitative and qualitative variables were used, this methodology was adapted to the research work due to the fact that observations were made with procedures of valorization, frequencies were used, statistical data  were presented and analyzed, information was collected with censuses, surveys and saturation interviews, direct observations and some life experiences narrated by the group of students, by the professors and some experts, thus obtaining information that gave depth and support to the study.