Factores que inciden en el rendimiento académico en estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa Licto en la modalidad virtual en el periodo 2020 – 2021

Abstract

Analyzing the academic performance of the students of the Unidad Educativa Licto aimed to identify the different factors that influenced student academic performance in the 2020-2021 period, through factorial analysis of mixed data. It was identified that there is a higher percentage of students from the Licto parish by using descriptive and exploratory statistics, in addition to the fact that 40.54% are women, it was determined that 80.86% of students have a good economic situation, however, 57.43% do not have internet access and that the average academic performance is 8.66 and the average family income is 316.94 dollars. Through the factorial analysis of mixed data, it was identified that the variables that most influence the academic performance of the students of the U.E. Licto are: Age, socioeconomic situation and the parish to which they belong, by establishing the variables that correlate with academic performance, it is possible to make decisions for the continuous progress of the teaching-learning process. Finally, an analysis of academic performance was carried out before and during the pandemic, given that the arrival of covid-19 and the mitigation measures adopted to stop the spread of the virus forced educational institutions to go suddenly from face-to-face to virtual modality and in many cases without any previous experience, obtaining through the Wilcoxon test that students have a better academic performance receiving teaching in person. Therefore, it is concluded that by applying the factorial analysis of mixed data, using the technique of the main components and multiple correspondence analysis, the factors that negatively influenced the academic performance of the students of the U.E. Licto were more precisely identified. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.