El absentismo en la enseñanza universitaria desde la perspectiva de los estudiantes

Abstract This article presents the results of a study examining how students assess the motives for their absenteeism from university classrooms. The study is based on the idea that absenteeism is a common handicap in the university setting, and the Social-Legal Sciences are the most affected branch, according to several studies. Therefore, this descriptive study attempts to determine some of the motives presented by university students to skip class. To do so, a questionnaire was designed and implemented as the data collection instrument. The resulting sample consisted of 877 students majorin...