SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.35 número1Erros de estudantes universitários na compreensão do significado das letras em tarefas algébricasAvaliação e redesenho de uma unidade sobre proporcionalidade, usando a ferramenta de Idoneidade Didática índice de autoresíndice de assuntospesquisa de artigos
Home Pagelista alfabética de periódicos  

Serviços Personalizados

Journal

Artigo

Indicadores

Links relacionados

  • Não possue artigos similaresSimilares em SciELO

Compartilhar


Uniciencia

versão On-line ISSN 2215-3470versão impressa ISSN 1011-0275

Resumo

RODRIGUEZ-PINEDA, Magaly  e  ZAMORA-ARAYA, José Andrey. College student dropout: cohort study about possible causes. Uniciencia [online]. 2021, vol.35, n.1, pp.19-37. ISSN 2215-3470.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/ru.35-1.2.

The main objective of this research was to find the reasons why first-year students drop out, particularly from Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. An exploratory, non-experimental and correlational quantitative approach was used. Participants, including 158 students from the 2014 cohort who did not enrollment during the first cycle of 2015, were given a 25 item-questionnaire. Using an exploratory factor analysis, university dropout variables were associated to the following factors (1) academic and student environment, such as grades; (2) motivational, mainly related to mood, length of the program, and lack of orientation, among others; (3) family economic, associated with lack of scholarships, family problems, or change in marital status; and (4) vocational, such as lack of interest and perceiving the program selected as first choice as being of little use. In addition, dropout was higher in stratum 3 students, that is, those from schools with lower educational opportunities and more vulnerable social groups.

Palavras-chave : dropout; factorial analysis; higher education.

        · resumo em Português | Espanhol     · texto em Espanhol     · Espanhol ( pdf )