Somali Undergraduate Students
Keywords:
undergraduate Students, attitude, research.Abstract
Informal observations over the last year reveals that a number of students in the undergraduate program at The University of Somalia, January 21- Campus, demonstrate negative attitude towards the research. Hence, this paper presents an analysis of the attitude of undergraduate students at The University of Somalia, January 21-Campus, towards research. Students often rate courses in research methods negatively and regard them as difficult. This study used the Attitude towards Research Scale. to assess the attitudes of 108 randomly selected undergraduate students towards research from University of Somalia as private university in Mogadishu- Somalia. Through a descriptive survey research design, information is collected from a random sampling comprising semester seven and eight students in Business administration and Accounting and finance undergraduate programs.
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