The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12
Persistence and dropout are two sides of the same coin. Together with personal and social factors, issues associated with the quality of teaching provided by universities determine students’ decision to persist in pursuing their academic degree or, on the contrary, to drop out of university studies....
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| description | Persistence and dropout are two sides of the same coin. Together with personal and social factors, issues associated with the quality of teaching provided by universities determine students’ decision to persist in pursuing their academic degree or, on the contrary, to drop out of university studies. Our working hypothesis is that the impact on improving the quality of teaching by considering pedagogical factors which are currently being researched and experimented with, can improve the overall persistence rate by reducing the dropout rate. Our work consisted of applying an instrument designed to diagnose the risk of dropping out of university studies to a sample of first-year university students at the University of Granada. The instrument was applied at the beginning of the second semester. Of the 642 pupils surveyed, we established a risk group of 20 students. In this preliminary study we intend to make a first approach to the phenomenon of academic failure in Andalusian universities from the prediction and diagnosis of risk groups and the recommendation of preventive measures. Among the measures we propose for prevention, we highlight those that have an impact on pedagogical factors. We propose measures targeting the factors that predict dropout and the implementation of preventive measures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c45d3ad26c3d494d9aff8693f9b4b32e2023-02-09T10:39:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2023-02-01810.3389/feduc.2023.11104911110491The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12Daniel González-González0María Arias-Corona1Antonio Cárdenas-Cruz2Alejandro Vicente-Bújez3Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, SpainPersistence and dropout are two sides of the same coin. Together with personal and social factors, issues associated with the quality of teaching provided by universities determine students’ decision to persist in pursuing their academic degree or, on the contrary, to drop out of university studies. Our working hypothesis is that the impact on improving the quality of teaching by considering pedagogical factors which are currently being researched and experimented with, can improve the overall persistence rate by reducing the dropout rate. Our work consisted of applying an instrument designed to diagnose the risk of dropping out of university studies to a sample of first-year university students at the University of Granada. The instrument was applied at the beginning of the second semester. Of the 642 pupils surveyed, we established a risk group of 20 students. In this preliminary study we intend to make a first approach to the phenomenon of academic failure in Andalusian universities from the prediction and diagnosis of risk groups and the recommendation of preventive measures. Among the measures we propose for prevention, we highlight those that have an impact on pedagogical factors. We propose measures targeting the factors that predict dropout and the implementation of preventive measures.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1110491/fullhigher educationacademic dropoutrisk factorsacademic persistenceprevention academic dropout |
| spellingShingle | Daniel González-González María Arias-Corona Antonio Cárdenas-Cruz Alejandro Vicente-Bújez The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12 Frontiers in Education higher education academic dropout risk factors academic persistence prevention academic dropout |
| title | The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12 |
| title_full | The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12 |
| title_fullStr | The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12 |
| title_short | The impact of academic dropout at the University of Granada and proposals for prevention12 |
| title_sort | impact of academic dropout at the university of granada and proposals for prevention12 |
| topic | higher education academic dropout risk factors academic persistence prevention academic dropout |
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