Abstract

VISBAL-CADAVID, Delimiro; MENDOZA-MENDOZA, Adel  and  DIAZ SANTANA, Sandra. Learning strategies in higher education. sophia [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.2, pp.70-81. ISSN 1794-8932.  https://doi.org/10.18634/sophiaj.13v.2i.461.

This work presents a study carried out with students of the faculty of engineering in a university, in which there are identified the learning strategies used by them and the relation with the variables: academic performance, gender, social stratum, type of school and type of engineering studies. In this study, several statistical tools were used to analyze the information obtained through a survey, such as descriptive analysis, logistic regression and decision trees; the results obtained in each of the statistical analysis were compared among them; in addition, there are presented several proposals resulting from data analysis.

In the logistic regression, it was evaluated the relation between the students’ academic performance and the other study variables, with a 61.3% prediction of correct cases; as for the results obtained with the decision tree, it was observed a coherence with what was shown by logistic regression.

Keywords : Learning strategy; academic performance; higher education; logistic regression; decision trees.

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