Influencing elements in college failure: a descriptive study.

Authors

  • Pilar Alonso Martín Universidad de Huelva
  • Herminia Lobato Soriano Universidad de Huelva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.16.num.1.2005.11363

Keywords:

technical and study procedures, university failure, types of exams

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The present work seeks to describe some of the elements that intervene in the university failure and for it was built it a questionnaire that was executed in an anonymous way by the students that accepted to participate. The study was carried out in the Licentiate of Psicopedagogía, belonging to the Ability of CC.EE of the University of Huelva, so much in tomorrows schedule like of late, during the months of April and May of the 2002.The main obtained results show that the reading habits are scarce, being reduced to the obligatory books of the different subjects; the stocking of hours dedicated to the study is of 10 weekly hours, time that isdistributed in a daily study of the subjects stops half of the sample. The used tool is the class notes. Regarding the procedures and technical of study it was observed that the great majority of the sample yes it uses them; the type of favorite exam is the cocktail (mixture of type test and development); as for the difficulties of the two exam types they are the use of confused questions and the difficulty to structure the answers. Besides these difficulties the fourth three parts of the sample point out as the main obstacle that interferes in their studies the quantity of works that you/they have to carry out for the different subjects.

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Author Biographies

Pilar Alonso Martín, Universidad de Huelva

Es Profesora Asociada en el Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Huelva. Líneas de investigación: cursos de doctorado, suficiencia investigadora y en posesión del DEA, realiza su doctorado sobre el testde Bender y su valor discriminativo de problemas emocionales.

Herminia Lobato Soriano, Universidad de Huelva

Es Orientadora Laboral en el SOIPEA de la Universidad de Huelva. Líneas de investigación: cursos de doctorado, suficiencia investigadora y en posesión del DEA; realiza su doctorado sobre la violencia entre iguales.Es coautora de varias publicaciones.

How to Cite

Alonso Martín, P., & Lobato Soriano, H. (2014). Influencing elements in college failure: a descriptive study. REOP - Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía, 16(1), 63–79. https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.16.num.1.2005.11363

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Research studies

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