Services on Demand
Journal
Article
Indicators
- Cited by SciELO
- Access statistics
Related links
- Cited by Google
- Similars in SciELO
- Similars in Google
Share
Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana
Print version ISSN 0122-7238
Abstract
MOLES-LOPEZ, Elisabet; ANANOS, Fanny T. and BURGOS JIMENEZ, Rubén J.. Determining factors of school failure in Spain: A socio-educational analysis of knowledge production. Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.38, pp.265-292. Epub Mar 06, 2023. ISSN 0122-7238. https://doi.org/10.19053/01227238.14718.
Objective:
this research analyzes the factors that determine school failure in Spain, based on the "Encuesta Social de 2010: Educación y hogares en Andalucía". From which, we use a representative sample of 5032 cases.
Originality/contribution:
School failure is a current topic of great interest in socio-educational research, as well as a priority objective to be addressed in the agenda of the European Union due to the high rates registered in recent years.
Method:
it is based on a systematic documentary analysis from a quantitative approach.
Strategies/information collection:
by exploiting secondary data from the survey, we make inference with the current situation using two binary logistic regression models by age cohorts.
The results show a gender gap in the probability of school failure. Women show a lower risk. The socio-family level indicates that the importance parents/ tutors give to education is not a factor related to school failure. However, parental control on secondary education studies decreases its probability. The socioeconomic status of the family appears as an incident factor.
Conclusions:
The findings highlight the need for adequacy and updating of data on the factors that determine school failure from a socio-educational and gender perspective. This would allow a socio-educational intervention and the creation of educational-social policies coherent with the social reality, which attend to the specific characteristics and conditions of the student body, to prevent school failure, promote integral development and social integration.
Keywords : School failure; school dropout; risk factors; protective factors; school social education; academic achievement.