Analysing students’ academic performance in Higher Education in Spain

  1. Carlos Rivero Rodríguez 1
  2. Cristina del Campo 1
  3. Elena Urquia-Grande 1
  4. Maria-del-Mar Camacho-Miñano 1
  5. David Pascual-Ezama 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Revista:
Educade: revista de educación en contabilidad, finanzas y administración de empresas

ISSN: 2173-478X

Año de publicación: 2017

Número: 8

Páginas: 3-19

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.12795/EDUCADE.2017.I08.02 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Educade: revista de educación en contabilidad, finanzas y administración de empresas

Resumen

The development of the European Higher Education Area has been a process of modernization in many universities. Teaching methodologies have undergone a process of continuous change to meet the demands for high quality leading to a need for enhancement in the learning assessment methodologies as well. The objective of this study is to analyse student´s academic performance measured through coursework vs. final exam and to ascertain the factors that could explain the difference. Regression and variance analysis are carried out over the grades and responses to a questionnaire on a sample of 298 students of different subjects in a Spanish university. The results show that there are differences between continuous assessment and the final examination marks.

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