Rendimiento académico en estudiantes de ingeniería comercial: Modelo por competencias y factores de influencia

Abstract

A study has been done on the how academic performance of the students has been influenced by the implementation of competency-based training model based on the traditional model. For this investigation a database of 852 enrolled students during the years 2007-2014 in the career Ingeniería Comercial of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción in Chile, was used. This investigation has a purpose to answer a question, for that reason it was estimating a model with a regression line. The dependent variable was the cumulative average in their first year of the career. It is concluded that those students that study in the competency-based training model obtain better academic performance in relation to students that follow the traditional model.