PEDAGOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING RETENTION RATES OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A SYSTEMATIC MAPPING

Abstract:

The causes of low academic performance of university students worldwide are reasons of concern for Higher Education Institutions (HEI), government institutions and student families. The retention is an indicator of academic performance and according to several researchers the retention is a social phenomenon that depends on multiple factors (teachers, institutions and students-oriented), in this respect it deserves to be investigated. The present study aims to summarize and classify existing scientific evidence regarding the pedagogical factors that affect retention in the first-year engineering students. Therefore, we have used the method of systematic mapping, a type of appropriate study for structuring, summarizing and classifying researches on the content, methods and trends of publications. This method consists of three stages, in which eight of the studies were identified as relevant and mapped to ten …

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2017

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