Relación entre el estatus sociométrico y el rendimiento académico

Abstract

The present investigation tries to establish if relation exists between the academic performance and the status sociométrico. The academic performance was defined by means of the calculation of the average of the most relevant, such matters as Spanish, mathematics, sciences and social, and the status sociométrico was defined from the nominations done by the participants, which were grouped in the categories of popularly, rejected, ignored, controversial, average and other . The sample was composed by 14 children and 9 girls, for a total of 23 participants, by a range between 7 to 10 years, who were dealing third party of primary in a private college in the city of Bogota. The statistical analysis of the information threw as result that there is no a statistically significant correlation between the academic performance and the status sociométrico, this possibly could owe to the size of the sample, since the technics of used nomination might need bigger groups, therefore it is suggested that on having worked with small samples there should be in use the technology of forced choices that was nominate every member of the group inside a status, and possibly relations could be established by the academic performance.