Assessment of the criteria referred to academic performance and variables that may influence them

Abstract

There are many researches on the academic performance carried out from dissimilar points of view, and different variables influencing it. The concept includes the influence of both, social and educational factors, on the teaching-learning process as a form of achieving the educative goals of a certain educative institution. Performance could not be analyzed independently of the social and historical conditions determining its instrumentation and execution. A research was carried out aimed to evaluate criteria referred to academic performance and variables that may influence it, according to consulted authors. To carry out the bibliographic update, a search was made in the Virtual Health Library of Infomed in the following databases: Medline Complete, Pubmed central, Hinari,  Scielo regional and Scielo Cuba, covering months from January 2010 to November 2014, and restricted for the last 11 years (2003). It was concluded that academic performance should be evaluated as the bond of social, psychological and educational factors influencing the development of the students´ knowledge, attitudes, habits, skills, capacities, concerns, motivation and expectations for the individual development and the development of the settings where they perform; and the variables affecting performance are the psychosocial ones, the academic ones, the economic ones, the family ones, the personal ones and the institutional ones.