Identificación de factores influyentes en el éxito académico de estudiantes de primer año en la universidad Agostinho Neto

The low academic performance at the university is influenced by many factors manifested mainly in the early years of study. However, the influential factors and the results presented in previous studies are different depending on the kind of universities. This work presents an approach to identify a group of factors or variables affecting the low academic performance of students in Computer Science in the university Agostinho Neto, of Angola, during first year of studies, specifically in two essential subjects of the course: Logic of Programming and Imperative Programming. From the psychological, pedagogical and social point of view the reasons to select those variables is analyzed and is compared by mean of a correlacional analysis for estimating the possible association between each independent variable and the variable criteria. Information employed belongs to three courses (about 800 students). The results of applying the statistical Chi-square to contingency tables suggest a group of aspects that more mainly influence in achieve successful in the subjects Logic of Programming and Imperative Programming.