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This quantitative descriptive research approach with a non-experimental investigative design was conducted at the University of Panama, Western Branch Academic Unit. This study aimed to analyze the English school graduates' affective, cognitive, and behavioral attitudes toward the thesis option. To that end, the Attitude Scale Toward Research (Aldana, 2016), based on a multidimensional style of the Likert kind, was used. The sample was chosen by using the non-probabilistic model. The Google Forms Platform was employed to send the measuring instrument through emails and WhatsApp Platform. Findings reveal that the affective attitude of the graduates to the thesis option was of negative intensity, that the cognitive attitude was of positive light intensity, and that the behavioral attitude was of negative strong intensity. A point to highlight is the high percentage of indifference (neutral category) that marked the negative intensity in the dimensions studied. This means that students hold little regard for the Thesis option. This tendency happened in other studies. It is recommended that deeper studies be carried out about the characteristics of each dimension studied.
