Perception and attitude towards teamwork among information technology students

A generic skill that every university student should have, is the ability to work in a team. However, their perception and attitude towards tea-mwork determine their efforts to develop this competence, so unders-tanding these perceptions and attitudes is fundamental to deciding on appropriate strategies to train them during their professional formation. For this reason, the perception and attitude of a group of university students of the information technology area, specifically of Software engineering and Computer engineering academic programs, were evaluated using a Likert-scale instrument. The results show that the surveyed students have little interest in knowing what teamwork is, although among the groups formed by women and younger students, there is more interest in being trained in the area. In addition, it was found that among the groups of older students and women, there is more concern about this form of work.