El impacto de la tenacidad en el rendimiento académico en la educación superior

  1. González-Ruiz, Ana Victoria 1
  2. Ayllón-Salas, Patricia 1
  3. Fernández-Martín, Francisco D. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Revista:
REDU: Revista de Docencia Universitaria

ISSN: 1696-1412,  1887-4592

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: 21

Número: 2

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.4995/REDU.2023.20560 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: REDU: Revista de Docencia Universitaria

Resumen

El rendimiento académico ocupa un lugar sumamente importante a nivel internacional debido a las elevadas tasas de abandono y fracaso escolar. En este sentido, la tenacidad se encuentra estrechamente relacionada con el rendimiento académico, es por lo que el objetivo de este estudio fue explorar la relación entre la tenacidad y el rendimiento académico en 576 estudiantes de la Universidad de Granada. Para ello, se realizó la prueba H de Kruskal-Wallis para muestras independientes y la prueba U de Mann Whitney para dos muestras independientes para identificar la presencia de diferencias en tenacidad en función de edad, sexo, titulación y curso, y rendimiento académico en función de la tenacidad y el análisis de correlación de Spearman entre las variables del estudio. Los resultados revelaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en perseverancia en el esfuerzo en función de la titulación, así como en perseverancia en el esfuerzo y tenacidad en función del sexo. Asimismo, se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en el rendimiento académico de los participantes en función de su nivel de tenacidad, con una tendencia a presentar un mayor rendimiento académico el alumnado universitario con mayor nivel de tenacidad. Estos resultados suponen un avance en lo que respecta a los estudios relacionados con la tenacidad en el contexto español, pues parece que esta habilidad no cognitiva tiene incidencia en el rendimiento académico del alumnado de universitario, con las implicaciones que ello conlleva.

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