Influence of socio-economic factors on the Portuguese education system

• Autor(a) principal: Pombinho, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cavique, Luís, Correia, Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34627/rcc.v17i0.282

This paper studies the influence of the socio-economic factors of different municipalities on the educational success of students. To verify the existence of relevant factors to the academic course of the students, datasets were obtained with socio-economic descriptors by municipality, average grades of national exams and success rates of students. These datasets were submitted to a K-nearest neighbours technique to allow finding attributes in municipalities with missing values. Classification algorithms were then applied through decision and regression trees, which allowed analyzing which socio-economic attributes were potentially more related to school success. The work performed allowed identifying some factors as targets of potential future studies without, however, verifying strong correlations with any socio-economic attribute.