ResumenLa reprobación estudiantil es un problema añejo y complejo que tiene que irse monitoreando cada determinado tiempo en las instituciones de educación superior. El propósito de esta investigación fue identificar las causas de reprobación en las carreras de ingeniería del Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali, en Baja California, México, desde la perspectiva de los actores educativos principales. En este documento se presentan los resultados obtenidos de los académicos y administradores. La información se recabó mediante una encuesta aplicada en febrero de 2013. El método utilizado es de tipo descriptivo-analítico. Pese a que los orígenes son variados, los académicos y administradores consideran que la principal causa de reprobación de los estudiantes de ingeniería es atribuible al rendimiento escolar del estudiante, es decir problemas relacionados a la falta de hábitos de estudio, de bases para cursar las asignaturas, dificultad para entender la asignatura y no asistir al aula o a las asesorías.Palabras clave: Causas de reprobación, educación superior, perspectiva del académico.
This paper presents the perspective of students and academics on failure in chemical engineering and is part of the results of the Project: "ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF FAILURE IN ENGINEERING IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS", which was carried out at the Tecnológico Nacional de México Mexicali campus. A questionnaire was applied to students and academics of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering to obtain information that allows relating and categorizing the perspective that these educational actors have on the problem of failure. Failure has increased in recent years, due to different factors, which for their study were grouped into psychological, social and family, physical and economic causes and attributable to school performance, the teacher, and the institution. Concluding that from the perspective of students and academics, the causes attributable to school performance, psychological causes and those attributable to the institution are the ones with the greatest influence on failure.
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