Análisis del rendimiento académico en la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. Caso Titulación de Economía, modalidad presencial, periodo académico Oct/2015 - Feb/2016

Abstract

The present research aims to find the influence of demographic, academic, socioeconomic and pedagogical variables on the academic performance of Higher Education students, considering as case study, students of the Degree of Economics of the Universidad Técnica Particular Of Loja, in the classroom, in the academic period Oct / 2015 - Feb / 2016. To meet the objective, a multilevel regression model was used, which consists of establishing a relationship between the students and the environment in which they develop, in order to find through levels, variables that can predict academic performance. The results show that a student's academic performance can be influenced by variables of a demographic, academic, socioeconomic and pedagogical nature, where the variables: student gender, teacher gender, attendance at classes, degree grade obtained in high school, Type of subject and whether they have a scholarship or not, maintain a positive relationship, while the age and type of funding of the studies have an inverse relationship