Reprobation, Symptom of School Dropout in Nutrition Degree from the Universidad Autónoma del Carmen
Abstract
Reprobation is defined as the judgement of a teacher or jury given to a student due to poor academic performance. Due to this situation, academic credits are not awarded to the students, so they must, in consequence, repeat a course or take another try on the test. Failure implications are dire, since they tend to build low self-esteem, and is closely related to school dropout. Determining the relationship between the reprobation and dropout rates of students at the Nutrition Bachelor’s Degree Program (NBDP) at the Universidad Autónoma del Carmen is the main goal of this paper. This research has a non-experimental, quantitative, exploratory and descriptive approach, with a cross delineation. To determine reprobation and dropout rates descriptive statistics were applied; while Pearson’s Chi-squared test was used to determine failure to dropout rates correlation. The totality of the 391 students enrolled in the NBDP between August 2010 to December 2017 were used to calculate the reprobation rate. The over-all reprobation rate found on the NBDP is 24.24% ± 12.68 and an 8.79 ± 3.06 opened courses arithmetic mean. The overall behavior regarding academic advance on dropout students presented an arithmetic mean of 2.35 ± 0.98 academic cycles, they also presented an arithmetic mean of 8.6 ± 3.15 of courses approved and an arithmetic mean of 6.46 ± 2.74 of courses failed at the point where they dropped school. The correlation among dropout rates and reprobation rates for the NBDP 2010 – 2017 generational cohorts using the Pearson’s Chi squared test was of 0.939 with a 0.001 value for p. Also, 96% of school dropouts has a course reprobation rate between 40% to 80%. This implies that reprobation rates are dire since they are directly related to school dropout, which can also evidence a problem in education quality.
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