Application of a field controlled experiment as a mechanism to improve the academic performance of high school students from the Cuenca canton

The data available in Ecuador show limits in access and permanence in secondary education, with multiple consequences in the lives of affected adolescents, one of them access and permanence in higher education. Therefore, this project aims to design strategies that contribute to improving the situation of students in public schools in Canton Cuenca, as a first step to generate long -term solutions that contribute to improving the aforementioned problems. In order to achieve this objective, it is proposed to generate an information lifting that allows to diagnose the educational needs and limitations of the students, which subsequently design the most appropriate strategies of both academic and non -academic type. These will then be executed and evaluated by the methodological framework of controlled field experiments. This methodology has the advantage of allowing evaluations of the impact of interventions with small samples, which contributes to being cost-efficient in the generation and execution of these. This project has the positive social impact potential for adolescents in the sector most affected by the problem addressed here: those of public institutions. In addition, it can generate an important scientific impact when adopting and disseminating a methodology of little use in Ecuador, which, being highly reliable, allows progress in scientific activity and informs public policy with the design of cost-efficient programs, from which its potential economic and political impact is also derived.

2nd UNIVERSITY COMPETITION FOR RESEARCH-LINKAGE PROJECTS