Attitude to learning and student achievement in academic pediatrics community Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Authors

  • Miguel Hernán Izaguirre Sotomayor
  • Luis Américo Reátegui Guzmán
  • Hallder Mori Ramírez
  • Víctor Andrés Velásquez Rimachi
  • Tony Edwar Tapara Yanarico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61651/rped.2018v70n1p20-26

Keywords:

Attitude, Learning, Academic Performance

Abstract

Introduction: Being the attitude towards learning and achievement achieved one of the fundamental factors that condition academic performance becomes relevant to know given its importance in improving university education.

Objective: To know the relationship between attitude to learning and academic performance in pediatric students of the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos. Design: Non- experimental, transversal research of descriptive and correlational type of quantitative design. Place: Department of Pediatrics, San Fernando School of Medicine, National University of San Marcos. Lima Peru.

Participants: Students of the Department of Pediatrics.

Interventions: The instruments were a Likert scale and an assessment scale for the analysis of academic performance.

Results: The attitude towards learning is not related to academic performance. 45% of the students had a very favorable attitude towards learning, while for 54% their academic performance was good.

Conclusions: The favorable attitude toward learning was not reflected in the best academic performance, while the students who had an indifferent attitude had a good academic performance and those who had an unfavorable attitude their performance was bad.

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Published

2018-12-31

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Izaguirre Sotomayor MH, Reátegui Guzmán LA, Mori Ramírez H, Velásquez Rimachi VA, Tapara Yanarico TE. Attitude to learning and student achievement in academic pediatrics community Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Rev Peru Pediatr [Internet]. 2018 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Dec. 3];70(1):20-6. Available from: https://pediatria.pe/index.php/pedperu/article/view/288

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Vol. 70 Num. 1 (2018)

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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