Factores que inciden en los resultados de un Plan de Intervención del proceso de nivelación académica en primer año de Universidadcaso asignatura de Biología carreras Salud humana y animal Universidad Iberoamericana

Resumo

Students who enter college for the first time present academic inequalities in the area of basic sciences. The Ibero-American University of Science and Technology takes charge of this income profile and implements affirmative actions in the form of academic leveling of these subjects, including biology. Using a pre-experimental correlational design, this research first analyzes the grades obtained by the same group of first-year students, before and after their participation in an intervention plan of the biology leveling program and then using a qualitative approach, deepens in the factors that affect the level of student achievement. The quantitative results showed that 40% of the students did not reach the minimum grade of approval. Using content analysis, group interviews were coded to teachers and students to identify the factors that impacted the outcomes of those who had low achievement. The qualitative results analyzed by triangulation allowed to identify three factors in which students of low and high academic performance differ: their academic origin, what they do to study or how they learn and how they know what they learn or what they do to monitor their learning. A fourth factor that does not differentiate between the two types of students but which has an impact on the results achieved is the teacherstudent relationship. The discussion of the results allows to indicate that the students of low achievements show a low development of their metacognition and use the superficial approach to study, which is influenced by the motivations that they have to study.