Discovery of Academic Performance Patterns Using Decision Trees in Generic Skills of Professional Education

The objective of this study aimed to discover academic performance patterns in generic competences of the students in professional programs in the 2011-12 Saber Pro Exam, based on sociodemographic, economic, academic and institutional data stored in the databases of the Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación (icfes), using data mining techniques. The studies carried out until now to analyze the 2011-12 Saber Pro test results are based on information processed using statistical research, in which fundamentally primary variables and relationships are considered, without taking into account the true interrelationships that are generally hidden and can only be discovered using a more complex data treatment, which is possible with the above-mentioned data. Therefore, the crisp-dm methodology was applied and through the use of clean data repositories that were transformed for each competence, patterns associated with good or poor academic performance were discovered, using the classification technique based on decision trees.In the patterns that were found, institutional accreditation and study modality stand out as two important attributes associated with the academic performance of the students in the 2011-12 Saber Pro tests, in the four generic competences. The findings will be incorporated into what already exists and can be integrated into decision-making processes of the icfes and of the governmental and academic institutions that oversee the quality of higher education.

• Autores: Timarán Pereira, Silvio Ricardo; Universidad de Nariño; Hernández Arteaga, Isabel; Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia; Caicedo Zambrano, Segundo Javier; Universidad de Nariño; Hidalgo Troya, Arsenio; Universidad de Nariño; Alvarado Pérez, Juan Carlos; Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Tipo de recurso: Book
• Fecha de publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UCC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/44257
• Acceso en línea: https://ediciones.ucc.edu.co/index.php/ucc/catalog/book/36; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/44257
• Palabra clave: aceleradores psicosociales; catalizadores de la violencia; violencia de género; Violencia de género; Psicología; gender violence; catalysts of violence; Psychosocial accelerators; Gender violence; Psychology
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2