Un modelo para estimar las acciones a aplicar a los alumnos de E.S.O.

Abstract

We propose a complement to the information provided by the first grades the pupils obtain in Spanish and Mathematics (logical-mathematical and linguistics intelligences). It can be seen that certain parameters related to these abilities have a big impact when determining the decisions that the Guidance, Spanish and Mathematics Departments should take as regards the pupils who have just arrived to school. These decisions can be classified as follows: — to give Spanish and Mathematics support lessons, — to give Spanish and Mathematics reinforcement lessons, — absence of decision, — to question performance according to pupils ability. Using Knowledge Discovery Techniques in Data Bases, it has been proved and confirmed that those parameters are good predictors of the actions to be taken with each as they give results of over 80% of conformity. Thus, we endeavoured, through the values obtained in these parameters, to predict which actions should be adopted in order to improve from the beginning performance in Spanish and Mathematics.