Academic performance of new students in Degrees and Engineering from the Multidisciplinary School of Ilobasco, Catholic University of El Salvador, during the cycle II-2013

Abstract

It was studied the performance of new freshmen students enrolled in the term II-2013 of bachelor and engineering degree of the Multidisciplinary Faculty of Ilobasco of Universidad Catolica de El Salvador. Ranges of passing and failing were established through a comparison by career, sex and educational institution where they studied high-school. Besides, it presented the list of subjects taught during the semester with their respective range of passing and failing.

In order to get the information, the grades provided by the academic registrar of the university were used. It identified the students that flunked subjects by administering a written interview with the purpose to find out the main causes of this problem.

In general terms, it was found that the academic performance increases along the semester in 27.4% for the male students; while the female students increases it in 3.9%. On the other hand, 31.3% of the students flunked one subject at least.

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 2, 2015: 79-94