Luis Sandoval

• Metropolitan University of Technology

The objective of this article was to identify and understand extra-academic aspects that hinder the academic performance of Chilean university students benefiting from free tuition. A total of 42 students, enrolled in 11 Chilean universities representative of the national spectrum, were interviewed. From critical discourse analysis, family and indi...

Students who drop out of university cite various reasons for their decision. Female enrolment has significantly increased over the past few decades and is now higher than male enrolment. In terms of performance, it is recognised that women perform better than males do, and fewer women drop out of university than men do. However, the relationship be...

Academic performance (GPA) is a fundamental factor in student success in college. Therefore, knowing the factors that influence it is important for universities. The objective of this research is to identify the determinants of university student academic performance during the first 3 years of its trajectory. The conclusions are based on data desc...

Purpose This study seeks to assess the impact of three factors related to graduates’ situation in the labor market on their satisfaction with university education. The dimensions are: (1) the gender of the graduates; (2) the institutional features of the institution attended, such as the selectivity of the university, and (3) the work experiences o...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) can help increase teachers’ abilities and, as a result, the learning of new cohorts of students who, in the age of mass higher education, enter university classrooms less prepared. Although ICT-based teacher training initiatives are well-known, there is little proof that the results are useful for st...

In 2016 Chile initiated a policy of free tuition for students from families in the lower half of the income distribution to improve access to and completion of higher education. The empirical effectiveness of the policy has not yet been completely demonstrated. This study analysed the difference in levels of academic performance of students enrolle...

The benefits of growth in university enrolments are contingent on the articulation of university expansion with changes in other areas, particularly the economy. The costs of a mismatch are felt at the societal level, but especially by individual graduates. This article describes problems faced by professionals in one country that has experienced v...

Is the satisfaction of university graduates explained by their pre-university background, by the nature and financial returns of the professional work in which they are now engaged, or by other factors? This paper seeks to provide some quick answers to this question. This study focuses on the relative impact of variables that have a direct and indi...

This article examines the relationship between graduates' academic performance and the financial returns of their university education in Chile. By Analyzing data from 784 students who graduated from 10 selected Chilean universities between 2010 and 2016, this study utilizes linear and quantile regression to estimate returns. The results indicate t...

Students' academic motivation is a critical factor in understanding the choices that they make over the course of their educational careers. The purpose of this research is to identify the factors that determine students' motivation to complete their undergraduate studies. Working with a sample of 2032 undergraduate students from 11 universities in...

Enrolments in university certificate and postgraduate programmes have grown considerably during recent decades. This study assesses the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics, characteristics of the university trajectory and the salary received after graduation and the decision to pursue postgraduate studies. Data for the analysis w...

Some universities, often the most prestigious in a higher education system, select qualified applicants solely on the basis of their measured academic or cognitive abilities. The universities' assumption is that these cognitive abilities are an accurate and complete measure of the applicants' capacity to benefit from university study. This study as...

Purpose This study analyzed the impact on the persistence of Chilean university students who had received a government-guaranteed loan (CAE). Design/methodology/approach Using academic and administrative data from 2016 to 2019, provided by 11 Chilean universities, a discrete-time survival model was constructed. The model was based on data of 5,276...

Purpose The job satisfaction of university graduates can serve as an indicator of success in their professional development. At the same time, it can be a measure of higher education systems’ effectiveness. The purpose is to assess the relationship of university graduates’ socio-demographic characteristics, aspects of their degree program, experien...

Fifty years ago, the expansion of access to higher education was expected to result in greater socio-economic equality. Instead, segmentation in mass higher education systems has called into question the effective democratization of access to higher education. This phenomenon appeared first in higher income countries, allowing the identification of...

In Chile many university students do not persist to graduation. Some students dropped out in the first year, others later. The objective of this study, based on students admitted to but not graduating from selective universities, was to identify factors associated with their academic success and length of persistence before withdrawal. The 707 subj...

How does a policy of free tuition affect student applications to universities? This article assesses how free tuition influences applications in terms of the selectivity of the university, length of the degree program, cost of the program, and application to a program in the STEM field. The study based on a quasi-experimental design was carried out...

This article assesses the impact of free university tuition on the persistence of students from low-income families in Chile. Drawing from 10 universities, a sample of students receiving free tuition was compared, using a discrete time survival model, to one of students without free tuition. The results show that students receiving free tuition wer...

This work aimed to study the relationship between the perception of organizational democracy and gender discrimination at a Chilean public university. It is known that organizational democracy is not only about organizational life but also about democratic perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors in social life, as found in academic contexts. The meth...

Enrollments in higher education have expanded greatly, but without elimination of all forms of inequality. Research in industrialized countries has shown that the path students follow in their transition from secondary school continues to be associated with their social class. This study provides quantitative evidence of that relationship in a non-...

El propósito del presente artículo es evaluar las tesinas en la carrera de Pedagogía en Educación Básica, en una muestra de universidades chilenas con distintos ni-veles de selectividad del alumnado en sus procesos de admisión. La evaluación se realizó siguiendo un conjunto de criterios definidos, con la técnica de juicio ex-perto para calificar la...

RESUMEN En este estudio, de carácter cualitativo, se analizaron las percepciones de estudiantes con gratuidad de 11 universidades chilenas respecto de su permanencia en la universidad. A través de un análisis de contenido, se identificaron tres dimensiones que dan cuenta del fenómeno. Primero, para los estudiantes la gratuidad facilita la permanenc...

La selectividad de las universidades otorga información relevante para ponderar su calidad. Se esperaría que la mayor o menor calidad del proceso formativo abarque todos los aspectos académicos, incluyendo las tesinas desarrolladas por estudiantes que cursan carreras de pregrado. La investigación que se reporta en este artículo tuvo por objetivo ev...

La selectividad de las universidades otorga información relevante para ponderar su calidad. Se esperaría que la mayor o menor calidad del proceso formativo abarque todos los aspectos académicos, incluyendo las tesinas desarrolladas por estudiantes que cursan carreras de pregrado. La investigación que se reporta en este artículo tuvo por objetivo ev...

In 2016, Chile implemented a policy of free higher education (gratuity) for secondary school graduates from families in the lower income range. One of the stated objectives of the new policy was to increase the access of secondary school graduates from families with lower levels of education. To answer that concern, we analyzed administrative data...

The objective of this study was to understand which factors contribute most to Psychology and Teaching graduates’ satisfaction with their university professional formation. Two factors were assessed: the level of admissions selectivity by the university attended, and the salary received once employed. The participants graduated from three universit...

This paper reports on a qualitative evaluation of the conceptual coherence of current programs of teacher training in three Chilean universities. Influenced by the Bologna Accord's emphasis on development of competencies, the national government recently called for a shift from teaching as transmission of disciplinary-based cognitive knowledge to a...

The purpose of this study was to assess employers' perceptions of the job performance of recent Psychology graduates of Chilean universities. There have been few studies of the impact of universities with different admission policies on the value added by their study programs. Not much is known about how the work performance of Chilean psychologist...

This paper explores the relationship between university selectivity and graduates’ wages. Holding other factors constant, do employers award higher salaries to graduates of universities that impose higher admission requirements? The study looks at wage returns to Chilean graduates in two different disciplines in three universities. The participant...

In recent decades in Chile, generic skills have been made explicit in the graduation profiles and curricula of all programs of higher education institutions, following global trends that relate to labor market expectations on the employability of graduates. The institutional characteristics, mission, educational model, and institutional seal condit...

El propósito del estudio es analizar el diseño, validación y verificación del cumplimiento del perfil de egreso en las carreras de Pedagogía en Educación Básica y Psicología de tres universidades chilenas con distinto nivel de selectividad. Se concluyó que las carreras de la muestra definen sus perfiles de egreso en función de demandas del mercad...

El artículo da cuenta de la percepción de los empleadores sobre el desempeño de recién titulados de pedagogía en educación básica, provenientes de universidades chilenas que ostentan distinto nivel de selectividad. Se utiliza un diseño cualitativo, con entrevistas en profundidad realizadas en 2017 y 2018. Se concluye que el desempeño laboral de los...

This study, carried out in Chile, describes difficulties in the incorporation of employability as an objective in the training of psychologists. Prior research emphasized confusion of key actors about how to train and measure employability. To illustrate that confusion, we compared perspectives of university Psychology department heads and employer...

In principle, the learning sought by universities is universal; that sought by employers of their graduates is contextual. This study illustrates this contradiction in Chile. The three participating universities differ in the socio-economic level of those admitted to teacher training. Teachers for schools in lower-income areas hired from less selec...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve future teacher training by assessment of university graduates’ satisfaction with their preparation in Basic Education teaching. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive study employed a self-administered survey questionnaire to a representative sample of 235 graduates between 2014 and 2016 from t...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine which of the two variables would be a more reliable proxy for quality of university training: graduates’ satisfaction with their degree program, or institutional prestige. Design/methodology/approach Graduates of professional psychology and teaching programs from three Chilean universities responde...

Se analizan los factores intervinientes en el proceso de inserción laboral de titulados de la carrera de Psicología provenientes de universidades de Chile con distinto nivel de selectividad. A partir de entrevistas en pro-fundidad se destaca un contexto de saturación del campo laboral, lo cual releva los factores de prestigio institucional y calida...

There is strong evidence that expansion of university enrolment contributes to economic growth. Less clear, however, is whether that expansion will reduce income inequality. Human capital theory argues that education provides graduates with the knowledge and skills to be more productive. As more students from disadvantaged families graduate from un...

El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación cualitativa, la cual tuvo por objetivo establecer las valoraciones preliminares que otorgan los titulados de la carrera de Psicología, de universidades de distinto grado de selectividad, a los ámbitos de la formación académica recibida y su relación con la inserción laboral. El trabajo se ins...

The expansion of access to higher education represented an advancement for the integration of traditionally excluded groups in Chile. However, expanding access is insufficient to ensure the equity of the higher education system. Under this premise, the article seeks to investigate aspects of academic training and employment from the perception of g...

RESUMEN: La expansión del acceso a la educación superior universitaria ha representado un avance para la integración de grupos tradicionalmente excluidos en Chile. Sin embargo, la apertura del acceso resulta insuficiente para asegurar la equidad del sistema de educación superior. Bajo esta premisa, el artículo se ocupa de indagar en torno a la form...

Universities’ reputations are built in part on graduates’ assessments of the quality of education they received. What do these assessments tell us? Are graduates’ judgments of quality based on their experiences as students or on their later job satisfaction, that is, on process or on outcomes? The objective of this study was to assess the extent to...

Tesis (Licenciado)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994. Bibliografía: h. 206-214.