Abstract
Personality traits have gained increasing interest as a explanatory factor of academic performance and dropout in environments college. With this premise, the Salesian Polytechnic University (UPS -Ecuador) developed a strategy aimed at strengthening its vocational and professional guidance by incorporating a diagnosis early personality. Making it possible, in this way, to evaluate and improve the degree of compatibility between the personal characteristics of the applicants university stud.
Translated title of the contribution | Do Personality Traits Matter? Measurement and Analysis of its Correlation with Academic Performance as a Contribution to Institutional Vocational Guidance Processes |
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Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
State | Published - 25 Jun 2020 |
Event | 9na Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre el Abandono en la Educación Superior, IX-CLABES 2019 - CO Duration: 13 Nov 2019 → 15 Nov 2019 https://www.urosario.edu.co/CLABES/inicio/ |
Conference
Conference | 9na Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre el Abandono en la Educación Superior, IX-CLABES 2019 |
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Period | 13/11/19 → 15/11/19 |
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Keywords
- Academic performance
- Personality traits
- University adaptation
- University dropout
- Vocational-professional profile