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Comparative Multivariate Analysis of Traditional and Active Learning Methodologies in a Public University

Abstract:

To rethink the traditional methodology of access to the university and due to the low admission rate and academic performance of the applicants, the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) implemented in 2018 the pilot program of the methodology active learning, a learning modality centered on the student and supported by technological resources. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of this innovative modality in academic performance at the end of the first year of the university career for those who approved the entrance, comparing it with the traditional modality. Descriptive and inferential for univariate analysis and multinomial logistic regression techniques for multivariate analysis are applied, being academic performance the dependent variable. Applying an innovative methodology allows a higher academic performance both in admission and during the development of the student’s first year of university.