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The general purpose of the study was to determine the relation between key competences and academic achievement in technological high school students in the state of Nuevo Leon .
This dissertation was based in the contributions and investigations made from the approach of one of the contemporary theories of human capital . Human capital is the result of three fundamental aspects , recognized in the contemporary literature as key competences . These key competences are language , formal reasoning and mathematical skills .
This study was a secondary data analysis . The dependant variable was academic achievement , represented by the GPA . The independent variables were the key competences , represented by verbal abilities , the capacity for mathematics learning and formal reasoning , measured trough an standardized test delivered by COSNET and applied to all the appliers for enrollment in the technological education system in the state of Nuevo Leon (DGETI ) .
The sample were first year students enrolled in DGETI schools in the state of Nuevo Leon that applied for the enrollment evaluation for high school in January 2006 . The final sample includes a number of 1610 students .
Several descriptive and inferential procedures were performed for the data processing . Test of univariate and multivariate normality were conducted . A confirmatory analysis of first order validated the model factors for the exogenous sub -scales . A confirmatory analysis from the factorial measure model of key competences and an evaluation of the structural modeling trough the structural equation modeling (SEM ) were conducted .
The results of this research study showed that only two of the factors , verbal ability and mathematics ability , were validated in the measurement model . These key competences explain academic achievement . Verbal ability is the key competence that best explained academic achievement . |
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