Analysis of the triad: academic integration, permanence and geographic dispersion
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Dropout, integration, distance education, statistical model.Abstract
This article examines the relationship between the decision to stay or drop out of university and the immediate academic performance. This follows the pattern of geographic dispersion of student population, which is one of the main strengths of distance education. The information, the basis of the research, corresponds to a cohort of students enrolled in a distance learning degree program of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL). Using statistical and econometric techniques - mainly multilevel probability models - it was possible to determine that there is a positive effect of the immediate academic performance in the decision that the students take to stay in the studies. This pattern of behavior was maintained in all the support centers of UTPL has, regardless of its size and distance from the headquarters; that is, the geographical dispersion of the student's enrollment center or place of residence is not a factor that influences the decisions it makes. The aversion to loss is the main factor explaining the behavior, the fact of not being efficient generates a direct and immediate effect, as it is natural, it does not find meaning in its permanence since it has not been properly integrated.
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