Abstract

ACOSTA, María del Socorro. Learning processes and their incidence in the estudent drop out rate of the pharmaceutical chemistry program in a university of Cartagena. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2009, n.24, pp.26-58. ISSN 0123-417X.

The results of a study appear on the processes of learning and their incidence in the student desertion in the students of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the period from the 2003 to the 2007 With the objective to describe the characteristics associated to the learning that entails to the student desertion, a sample equivalent to the totality of the population of originating students of the official schools of Cartagena in the first semester of 2007 was selected (50), to which the test smlq was applied (pintrich), that contains questions of motivacional character and relative to the strategies of learning used by the students study object It was possible to be concluded that the 2003 were the year in which the elevated index of desertion appeared more (46%), being the general average of desertion in the period between 2003 and 2007 of 19%, reporting the change of race or institution as the most frequent cause of desertion (59%). Also, it was possible to be observed that within the motivacionales scales, the category referred to expectations was the one that obtained a greater amount of results in the high level, with an average of 60%. And between the Strategies of Learning, those of cognitivo type they scored 34%.

Keywords : Student desertion; learning; motivation; techniques of study; quality of Education.

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