{"title":"Bias From Enrollment: Peer Effects on the Academic Performance of University Students in PUCE Ecuador","authors":"Melissa Guadalupe, Ivan Gonzalez-Gordon","doi":"10.1177/15381927221085679","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We study the impact of peer effects on the academic achievement of economics students in Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Ecuador, for both semesters of 2018. The estimates from our random-effects model show a significant influence of the average-group, high-achieving, and low-achieving peers. These results are robust with the presence of socioeconomic, academic, and teaching quality covariates. The findings suggest that systems that prioritize course enrollment according to previous scores may exacerbate a peer-driven bias in student performance.","PeriodicalId":35211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hispanic Higher Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"175 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Hispanic Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15381927221085679","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We study the impact of peer effects on the academic achievement of economics students in Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Ecuador, for both semesters of 2018. The estimates from our random-effects model show a significant influence of the average-group, high-achieving, and low-achieving peers. These results are robust with the presence of socioeconomic, academic, and teaching quality covariates. The findings suggest that systems that prioritize course enrollment according to previous scores may exacerbate a peer-driven bias in student performance.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education is an educational administration journal with cross-over into Latino culture studies as well as management, marketing, political science, and, of course, higher education. Topics will include: corporate culture at Hispanic-Serving Institutions; financial aid and graduation rates; retention strategies at Hispanic-Serving secondary institutions; Hispanic involvement in college and university athletics; Hispanic graduation rates among disciplines; organization development in Hispanic-serving institutions; curricular issues; demographic shifts and student government; technology and family values; teaching strategies; retention models; recruiting models; faculty development.
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