Nivel de compromiso académico de estudiantes de básica media de una institución fiscal de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The present study corresponds to a descriptive research elaborated as a degree work. In this research, it has been decided to work on academic engagement, because the lack of commitment can cause a negative reaction both emotionally, physically and mentally, which can lead to exhaustion or frustration. The general objective of the study was to know the level of academic engagement of middle school students of a fiscal institution. Based on this, two specific objectives were proposed that sought to identify the level that has the behavioral, affective, cognitive and agentic dimension within academic engagement and identify the variation of academic engagement in relation to sex and the year of basic. This study was developed from a non-experimental quantitative approach, it had a sample of 81 students of the fifth, sixth and seventh year of basic education. The instrument used was the "academic engagement scale for primary school students" validated by Morcillo-Martínez et al. (2021). The results show that the level of academic engagement reaches 67.31%, which is mostly reflected in the behavioral dimension and to a lesser extent in the agentic dimension. Regarding the comparison of academic commitment in relation to sex and the basic year, the results showed that it is women who demonstrate a slight superiority with respect to men and that it is students of lower grades who feel more committed than students of higher grades