CAN TUTORING AND MOTIVATION HELP OVERCOME SOCIOECONOMIC BARRIERS? A CASE STUDY FOR A MICROECONOMICS COURSE

Abstract:

The Ecuadorian system of higher education has gone through several structural changes. In 2008 public Higher Education Institutions (HEI) became free, and since 2013 both private and public HEI have been rated according to their performance in areas such as research, teaching, work with and for the community and administration. One of the many challenges public HEI face is managing an optimum academic inclusion of those students with unfavorable educational and socio-economic background (about one out of three students in public HEI have a below the median income according to the National Survey of Employment, Underemployment and Unemployment) in order to provide better learning conditions. This case study analyzes the relationship between socio-economic factors and students’ academic performance in an undergraduate Microeconomics course (129 individuals during the second term …

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2017

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