Charity Oluchi Aneke
Abstract
This study assessed demographic variables and research skills acquisition among postgraduate students in public universities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Ex post facto research design was adopted for the study, while stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 400 from a population of 2,651 post graduate students in the public universities. An instrument developed by the researcher and titled: “Research Skills Acquisition Questionnaire” (RSAQ), duly validated with reliability estimates of the sub-variables between .72 and .81, was used to collect data for the study. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using t-test. The findings revealed that demographic variables (postgraduate students’ gender and type of university) significantly influence their research skills acquisition. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that educators should provide targeted support to students who may be struggling with research skills, giving attention to their gender and type of university.