Análisis de diversos determinantes del fracaso académico en los grados de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
- Gualberto Buela-Casal (dir.)
- Tamara Ramiro-Sánchez (coord.)
Publisher: Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual AEPC
ISBN: 978-84-608-7206-1
Year of publication: 2015
Pages: 1-6
Congress: FECIES. Foro sobre la Evaluación de la Calidad de la Educación Superior y de la Investigación (11. 2014. Bilbao)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The analysis of the determinants of university academic failure is essential for making educational policies to improve academic performance and to reduce levels of failure and dropout. This work analyzes the failure of academic study in universities in order to identify possible causes. The target is to perform an empirical analysis of several explanatory variables of academic failure in the degrees of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) during the 2011-12 academic year, meaning the inability of students to pass any credit in the first year of their studies. The results show the special importance of acting on it in the pre-university stage, the appropriate choice of career and scholarship status, among others.