Abstract

TERAN MONTANO, Adriana  and  SCHULMEYER, Marion K.. Relationship between High School Academic Performance and University Academic Performance. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2022, n.32, pp.55-66. ISSN 2306-8671.

Abstract This study aimed to determine if school performance could help predict first-semester student achievement at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. First semester students enrolled during three consecutive years were studied, 935 male students and 1.000 female. Academic data of the students, such as their senior year average grade and their math grade, the index of academic achievement at the University, the type of school they studied in, their gender, period of admission and the faculty they enrolled to, were studied to establish the relationship between school and university performance. As a result, we found a moderate correlation of school and university grades, there were no differences found, by gender or by type of school. However, the relationship between university and school grades is greater in the faculties that involve more numerical subjects (such as engineering and administration). However, the predictability of school performance is low when it is the only predicting variable

Keywords : academic achievement; university; school; mathematics.

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