Variables associated with academic performance in students of the Corporación Universitaria Autónoma de Nariño, Cali-Colombia

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify, in terms of probabilities, the incidence of some variables associated with personal, academic, institutional and labor incentives in obtaining high  academic performance through the use of probabilistic logit and probit models. The results show a relationship in accordance with the literature on the incidence of academic performance and identify strong relative probabilities, with inverse relationship, such as marital status, having children, socioeconomic status and employment status of the students. On the contrary, age, hours dedicated to study outside academic hours, family members with professional training, participation in extracurricular activities, such as university welfare, academic research and psychosocial support, positively determine the probabilities of having high academic performance. In this analysis, the strong negative incidence of the labor condition on the probability of having a high academic performance stands out.