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The pandemic caused by Covid-19 at the end of 2019 affected the development of academic activities in educational institutions at all levels. This article focuses its interest on analyzing the academic performance, failure and dropout of the students of the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Santo Domingo, before and during the pandemic. The analyzed data was collected from the academic results matrices of the Departamento de Ciencias Exactas of the ordinary academic periods: 201950, 201951, 202050, 202051, 202150 and 202151. The information was analyzed with a descriptive approach, using bar charts, which indicate the evolution of the areas of knowledge in the indicated periods. For the variation of academic performance, the ANOVA method was used, obtaining a p − value = 0.126, which indicated that there is no significant variation between the means of the analyzed data. In addition, it was determined that between academic periods the assumptions of normality and homoscedasty with values p − value > 0.05 are met. In the linear correlation analysis, the Pearson coefficient was calculated, whose value indicated a strong negative correlation between the academic performance and the percentage of failure (values of 0.887, 0.796), while between the academic performance and the percentage of abandonment there was a moderate negative correlation (values of 0.428, 0.636). Finally, models based on linear regression are proposed in the areas of knowledge analyzed, to predict the academic performance of the new academic period 202250.
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The authors thank the Department of Exact Sciences of the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas Sede Santo Domingo (DCEX-SS), for providing access to the matrices that contain information from the academic periods analyzed in this work. A special thanks to the teachers who are part of it.
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Bastidas-Chalán, R., Mantilla-Morales, G., Vinueza-Escobar, F., Coronel-Guerrero, C. (2023). Statistical Analysis of University Academic Performance in the Area of Exact Sciences, Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Botto-Tobar, M., Zambrano Vizuete, M., Montes León, S., Torres-Carrión, P., Durakovic, B. (eds) Applied Technologies. ICAT 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1757. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24978-5_17
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