School Success and School Dropout in Portuguese Polytechnic Higher Education: (case Study)
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Elsa Rodrigues [1]
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[1] Instituto Politécnico de Beja
Instituto Politécnico de Beja
Beja (Santa Maria da Feira), Portugal
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- Localización: The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational: (ICEUTE 2020) / Álvaro Herrero Cosío (ed. lit.), Carlos Cambra Baseca (ed. lit.), Daniel Urda Muñoz (ed. lit.), Javier Sedano Franco (ed. lit.), Héctor Quintián Pardo (ed. lit.), Emilio Santiago Corchado Rodríguez (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 3-030-57798-8, págs. 419-427
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This study is based on students attending a polytechnic higher education. It was concluded that, regardless of their social and ethnic origin, their behavior at certain times intersects with age, choices, motivation, success and failure, among others. Polytechnic Institutes offer several courses in different areas, such as higher vocational technical courses (2 curricular years), bachelor’s programs (3 curricular years). For this study, we select some specific courses from the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, namely: 1) the course Web Technologies and Mobile Devices, the course Networks and Information Systems, Computer Engineering (Bachelor’s Degree). These 3 courses were chosen based on their common point, digital skills; 2) Legal Services (face-to-face), Legal Services (e-learning), these courses are in the area of law, and due to the difference in teaching methodology. The most important aspect of these choices were the scientific areas, as they are literally opposite. This survey intends to verify if school success/failure depends on age and/or choice of scientific area. To what extent are the student’s characteristics combined with the course ones linked to failure/achieving success? How to act, what initiatives can we take to tackle failure and enhance success? The study focused on document analysis, analysis of statistical indicators, provided by the quality office of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja and on observation in the classroom. During the investigation, we concluded that age is not a decisive factor for school failure, while the scientific area is debatable, as long as courses in the same area are not analyzed.
