Determining factors of school failure in Spain: A socio-educational analysis of knowledge production

Objective: this research analyzes the factors that determine school failure in Spain, based on the “Encuesta Social de 2010: Educación y hogares en Andalucía”. From which, we use a representative sample of 5032 cases. Originality/contribution: School failure is a current topic of great interest in socio-educational research, as well as a priority objective to be addressed in the agenda of the European Union due to the high rates registered in recent years. Method: it is based on a systematic documentary analysis from a quantitative approach. Strategies/information collection: by exploiting secondary data from the survey, we make inference with the current situation using two binary logistic regression models by age cohorts. The results show a gender gap in the probability of school failure. Women show a lower risk. The socio-family level indicates that the importance parents/tutors give to education is not a factor related to school failure. However, parental control on secondary education studies decreases its probability. The socioeconomic status of the family appears as an incident factor. Conclusions: The findings highlight the need for adequacy and updating of data on the factors that determine school failure from a socio-educational and gender perspective. This would allow a socio-educational intervention and the creation of educational-social policies coherent with the social reality, which attend to the specific characteristics and conditions of the student body, to prevent school failure, promote integral development and social integration.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6552
• Fecha de publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/14972
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_educacion_latinamerican/article/view/14718; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/14972
• Palabra clave: School failure; school dropout; risk factors; protective factors; school social education; academic achievement; fracaso escolar; abandono escolar; factores de riesgo; factores de protección; educación social escolar; rendimiento educativo; Insucesso escolar; abandono escolar; fatores de risco; fatores de proteção; educação social escolar; desempenho educativo
• License: Copyright (c) 2022 REVISTA HISTORIA DE LA EDUCACIÓN LATINOAMERICANA