Abstract

MARTINIS-MERCADO, D. et al. Estudio de factores causales de deserción en alumnos de ciencias veterinarias. Rev. vet. [online]. 2016, vol.27, n.2, pp.130-133. ISSN 1669-6840.

Desertion constitutes an important problem of the formal education national system. The Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences of the UCASAL (Salta, Argentina) developed a research to determine the rate of veterinary science students' desertion and its possible causes. The gathering, organization, presentation and analysis of the information, was made taking as experimental population the cohorts of the years 2009 at 2013. The analysis of the obtained data was based in descriptive statistical (central tendency, dispersion and variation coefficient). The desertion percentage was of 33. Causes of the abandonment were determined and strategies for its correction were formulated. It is considered that such procedures will generate a decrease of the desertion and a better educational quality.

Keywords : students desertion; veterinary studies; strategies of correction.

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