COMPROMISO ESTUDIANTIL EN EL DESEMPEÑO ACADÉMICO Y SUS DIFERENCIAS POR GÉNERO

Resumo

The purpose of this research was to identify groups of students characterized by their student commitment. There were 31 participating students belonging to careers related to information technology from a university un the southern of Mexico. For this, the authors applied the UWES-S with a series of questions related to the academic fields. The data mining technique called clustering was subsequently applied to identify the group using the WEKA tool. It is highlighted as a result that the group of women has high levels of student’s commitment, vigor and absorption, compared to men, who have a high level of dedication.