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Chile has a Second Chance Centers system that offers traditional school dropouts between 14 and 18 years old the opportunity to complete their studies. This article has a twofold objective: on the one hand, to relate the characteristics of the students of these centers and their families with their history of school failure (grade repetition); on the other, to establish the relationship between the students' future expectations and a set of characterizing variables, including the history of school failure. For data collection, we surveyed 1112 students selected from 18 of the 134 Second Chance Centers in Chile. We concluded that relatively few personal and family variables are significantly linked to school failure and grade repetition. Thus, there would not be a fixed set of traits to clearly distinguish students who have repeated a grade once from those who report several grade repetitions. Moreover, the analysis of the experiences reveals some significant differences between men and women in that the latter seem more concerned about their future, specifically their employment and educational possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: University dropout is a problem of great interest to different agents of the education system, since its presence in societies is an indicator of inefficiency, which generates considerable costs for states, universities, students and their families. Objective: Examine the factors that influence students' decision to drop out of university in the city of Medellin (Colombia) for the year 2018. Methods and instruments: A quantitative study was carried out, based on a cross-cutting exploratorydescriptive field design, in which 3026 students participated through the application of a selfadministered questionnaire. Results: In addition to economic factors, which are traditionally evaluated in this type of literature, social, family and affective conditions become key incidents when dealing with school dropout as a structural phenomenon. Conclusions: The articulation between directors, administrators, teachers and students is consolidated as a key element in academic retention processes, as a strategy to combat the phenomenon of university dropout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the study was to determine the risk profile of school desertion according to socioeconomic, institutional, academic, and individual conditions in students at different campuses of a Colombian university. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a random sample of 1897 students. The QVA-r Academic Experiences Questionnaire and the Family APGAR were administered to students. A multiple correspondence analysis was performed using the mixed classification to obtain the typologies from the coordinates of the variables in each factor. According to the profiles obtained, the one that contains the students with the highest risk of desertion includes students with a lack of adaptation and low adaptation to university life, belonging to single-parent families and reporting severe or moderate family dysfunction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The higher education institutions (IES by its Spanish acronym) in Mexico, carried out, with certain periodicity, various actions prosecuted to evaluate, restructure or modify their study programs; in whose curricular organization, must ensure and guarantee the quality of education to enable the graduates respond professionally to the demands of the current times. To safeguard the teaching quality, the (IES) have created new figures that are understood in essence, nevertheless the university teachers face a different reality at the time to put them into practice, as is the case in some of the degrees in our University campus. This work is a reflection that enables strategic proposals for the development of the tutorial activity on the basis of considerations on the tutorial task that is currently within the Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences of the Faculty of Human Sciences comparing with the proposals which expresses the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES by its Spanish acronym) about tutorials and his practice in the day to day work of university teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Magis: Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación is the property of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)