Social, Academic, and Family Factors Associated With Academic Repetition in Dental Students

Natalia Fortich Mesa,Yuranis Reales Gutiérrez

doi:10.11144/javeriana.uo39.saff

Natalia Fortich Mesa, Yuranis Reales Gutiérrez

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https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uo39.saff

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Background: Student repetition is a multifactorial phenomenon, of a socio-educational type, associated with different characteristics (sociodemographic, academic, family) in students of institutions, being a recurring manifestation in university institutions, which makes evident the need to identify the factors that intervene in the process, which would help to avoid or reduce dropout. Purpose: to determine the academic, social and family factors associated with student repetition in dental students from a university institution on the Colombian Caribbean coast. Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional study, in a representative sample of dental students in a repetition and non-repetition condition, who voluntarily answered a validated instrument to measure, in addition to sociodemographic characteristics, the associated factors that may influence student repetition and familiar functionality. Results: of 244 participants with a predominance of the female gender, 40,2 % repeating. they never received vocational guidance (19,4 %), in general they reported good family functionality (91 %). The factors associated with student repetition were: socioeconomic status, academic levels and income of the parents, Saber11 test results and the number of times they have repeated a semester and / or a subject. Conclusion: The identification of these factors allows the design of strategies that encompass the impact of this condition so that higher education institutions can act in a timely manner to reduce these rates.

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At present, with the advent of globalization, the concept of university has been transformed until it is understood as a space in which the development of competencies for the adoption of roles and reflective, critical and creative attitudes that allow the resolution of problems in the social context [1,2]
Student repetition is one of the concerns shared by all educational systems in Colombia and in the world since it is the first step in the final process of university dropout
Most of the participants were in an age range between 23 to 26 years, 86% of the participants were single, with a predominant socioeconomic stratum of stratum 2 in 39.3% and they came from the department of Bolívar and they resided in the city of Cartagena

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With the advent of globalization, the concept of university has been transformed until it is understood as a space in which the development of competencies (logical, interpretive, argumentative, propositional) for the adoption of roles and reflective, critical and creative attitudes that allow the resolution of problems in the social context [1,2]. On multiple occasions these demands are hampered by the low performance of the student, due to various factors that may be of sociodemographic, economic and / or related to the academic dimension, study plans and educational resources, which directly affect the repetition of the student and as a consequence of this in the student dropout [4]. For this reason, student repetition is one of the concerns shared by all educational systems in Colombia and in the world since it is the first step in the final process of university dropout. Conclusion: The identification of these factors allows the design of strategies that encompass the impact of this condition so that higher education institutions can act in a timely manner to reduce these rates

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