La construcción del itinerario formativo postobligatorioEfectos de la atención al bajo rendimiento sobre la expectativa académica

Abstract

Low performance attention programs during compulsory educationexercise an orientation effect over students, conditioning their educational trajectoryafter finalizing ESO. This research is aimed at studying that orientation and itsrelationship with other key variables in the construction of academic expectation.To accomplish that, a survey was carried out among students from four differenthigh schools at Comunidad de Madrid, observing through a logistic regressionanalysis and a discriminant analysis that mere participation in the considerate programs(grade repetition, regrouping in concrete subjects and PMAR) exercise animportant orientation towards Intermediate Level Vocational Education. The differentsocial origin of participants and non-participants in those programs, thephysical and pedagogic separation between both learning processes and their differentacademic expectations has led us to refer such programs as a specific viaduring compulsory education analogous to the primary professional net describedby Baudelot and Establet. Therefore, it is advisable to avoid mechanisms that, reactingto underachievement, regroup students according to their former performanceat school, for such programs tend to consolidate performance inequalitiesand turn them into unequal educational careers.