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Record Nr.

UNINA9910275028703321

Autore

Rodríguez Hernández Carlos Felipe

Titolo

Socioeconomic Factors and Outcomes in Higher Education : A Multivariate Analysis / / Carlos Felipe Rodríguez Hernández

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bogotá, : Universidad externado de Colombia, 2018

ISBN

958-772-629-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Soggetti

Education

Sociology

higher education

socioeconomic condition

education

social class

educación superior

estadísticas

evaluación académica

estudiantes

rendimiento académico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In the Colombian case, it is very common to associate academic performance with the students' socioeconomic conditions. A generalized and bivariate interpretation of this relationship could imply that only students from a high socioeconomic class would perform satisfactorily and that all students from a low socioeconomic class would perform poorly. If this is the case, then the educational system could be increasing the gap between social classes instead of making it smaller.  Therefore, it seems important to examine the way in which some socioeconomic factors are related to the students' academic performance in Colombia. Consequently, Socioeconomic Factors and Outcomes in Higher Education: a Multivariate Analysis, explores the



relationship between the results in standardized tests and socioeconomic variables in a cohort of Colombian students.