Construcción de un indicador sintético de rendimiento académico, aplicación a los estudiantes de Economía en el período Abril-Agosto 2016.

Abstract

In recent times, a series of techniques or procedures have been developed to obtain academic performance. The aim of the present research is to construct a Synthetic Indicator (IS), which allows to know the academic performance of university students of the degree of Economics of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL). We worked with a sample of 168 students, who were given a survey consisting of 33 multiple-choice questions. The methodology used was based on the Manual of Construction of Synthetic Indicators made for the OECD, which presents a process that is divided into ten sequential stages. The results obtained show a synthetic overall indicator of academic performance (ISRA) from the aggregation of five intermediate synthetic indicators, where it can be observed that the indicators of socio-family and academic variables are the ones that have the greatest influence on the academic performance of Students registering a weight of 53% and 32%, respectively.