Abstract—The article presents an exploratory and
descriptive study of the failure rate of students of the
professional school of mechanical and electrical engineering of a
public university in Peru. The purpose is to identify if the level
of failure has experienced any positive or negative variation
when moving from the context of face-to-face education to
virtual education, due to the state of health emergency. This
study makes it possible to demonstrate an initial reference state,
relevant for decision-making at the level of university academic
management, through strategies that will increase the approval
rate of this professional school. The results obtained indicate
that the level of failure of the students has experienced a
positive variation when moving from the face-to-face context to
the virtual one, due to the increase in the average rate of failure
from 25% to 34%. The results are equivalent to 242 students
failed during the context of face-to-face education, and 438
students failed during the context of virtual education. In
addition, it is visualized that the specialty subjects, where there
are the largest number of failed students, are linked to the area
of electrical engineering. Being the subject of Electrical
Machines I, the one with the highest failure rate, with a total
average of 43% during the context of face-to-face education and
48% during virtual education.
Index Terms—Failure rate, university students, variation,
face-to-face education, virtual education.
Omar Chamorro Atalaya is with the Universidad Nacional Tecnológica de
Lima Sur, Perú.
Salvador Apolinar Trujillo Pérez is with the Universidad Nacional del
Callao, Perú.
Edison Martin Perez Linares is with the Universidad César Vallejo, Perú.
Almintor Giovanni Torres Quiroz is with the Universidad Nacional del
Callao, Perú.
Yurfa Carolina Medina Bedón is with the Universidad Nacional Enrique
Guzmán y Valle, Perú.
Lourdes Del Pilar Quevedo Sanchez is with the Universidad César
Vallejo, Perú.
Maritte Giovanna Fierro Bravo is with the Universidad Nacional Federico
Villarreal, Perú.
Antenor Leva Apaza is with the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Perú.
*Correspondence: omar_chamorro1@hotmail.com
Cite: Omar Chamorro-Atalaya*, Salvador Trujillo-Pérez, Edison Perez-Linares, Almintor Torres-Quiroz, Yurfa Medina-Bedón, Lourdes Quevedo-Sánchez, Maritte Fierro-Bravo, and Antenor Leva-Apaza, "Failure Rate in University Students: Analysis of its Variation in the Transition from Face-to-Face Education to Virtual Education," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 151-157, 2023.
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