Factors that affect the repetition of 6th students in Jairo Morera Lizcano educational institution

Abstract

Repetition in Colombia has a high rate, especially in secondary school, the same in the department of Huila. Based on this, the present work analyzes the factors that affect the repetition of the sixth grade of the Jairo Morera Lizcano Educational Institution (Neiva-Huila). Source data for the construction of an improvement plan that prevents failure of the school year, favoring inclusion and permanence in the institution.

The research in this school environment had a qualitative approach, with a case study design, as a pertinent tool to study the particularities of the phenomena that develop within a real everyday educational context. The methodological strategy is the collective case study. The instruments applied were the following: semi-structured interview, focus groups and document review.

The results in a hierarchical order according to their incidence before the repetition, were the following emerging categories with their corresponding subcategories: one, the emotional factor (bad friendships, consumption of psychoactive substances, feeling of sadness in the face of loneliness, family tragedies without closing duels , assuming bad attitudes and residence in high-risk neighborhoods); two family factors (weak families to prosecute behaviors and form study habits and dysfunctional environments), three, academic factors (lack of pertinent information from the institutional point of view) and finally economic factor (limited resources in covering school supplies minimally). In conclusion, the most critical was the emotional factor, then the family, academic and without major incidents the economic.