Effects of Socio-Academic Intervention on Student Performance in Vulnerable Groups

Tarquino Sánchez-Almeida, David Naranjo, Raquel Gilar-Corbi and Jessica Reina
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Tarquino Sánchez-Almeida: Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Networks, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito 17-01-2759, Ecuador
David Naranjo: Educational Research Group INEDU-EPN, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito 17-01-2759, Ecuador
Raquel Gilar-Corbi: Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics, University of Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain
Jessica Reina: Educational Research Group INEDU-EPN, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito 17-01-2759, Ecuador

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-14

Abstract: In Ecuador, affirmative action policies enable students from vulnerable groups to preferentially enter universities. However, these policies are limited to admission and do not include academic or socio-economic support mechanisms that, according to the literature, promote student insertion in the higher education system. In this study, the effects of socio-academic intervention on the academic performance of vulnerable students are presented. For this, 41 students were selected among 164 vulnerable students entering the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in the second term of 2019. The 41 students attended a socio-academic intervention course for one term, while the remaining 123 attended the Escuela Politécnica Nacional levelling course directly. Once both groups of students finished the levelling course, their performance in each of the course subjects was compared. The results showed that the academic performance of the students in the intervention was significantly higher in mathematics and geometry compared to the students who had no intervention. These results show that the socio-academic intervention promotes the real insertion of vulnerable students in the university system.

Keywords: student success; academic performance; socio-academic intervention; inclusive education; vulnerable students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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