Abstract

ITURRA-GONZALEZ, José Alejandro  and  SOTO-FUENTES, Rubén Eduardo. Incidence of sociocultural factors like rurality and gender in the academic performance of the kinesiology program students. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.3, pp.153-157. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S2014-98322013000300006.

Aim. To determine if variables like rurality, measured with the new rurality index from the Latin American Centre for Rural Development (Rimisp), and gender are related with academic performance in the form of the average final mark of the first semester. Subjects and methods. Kinesiology students from cohorts 2010 and 2011 were assessed. Data of gender and rurality were associated with academic performance. Results. There is no relation of statistical significance between academic performance and gender. However, there is a relation of statistical significance (p = 0.05) between the rurality index and academic performance during the first academic semester of the kinesiology program at University of Santo Tomás-Talca. Conclusion. Students coming from rural areas (typology 1 and 2) surpassed their urban counterparts and that gender is not a relevant factor to be considered in academic performance.

Keywords : Academic performance; Education; Gender; Intercultural education; Kinesiology; Rurality.

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