Academic Performance According to Genre. Evidence Master in Education Period 2015 Mention Quality Management, Education and Teaching.

The objective of this study is to compare the academic performance according to the gender of the different students, Those who studied in the Master in Education 2015 taught by the University of Cervantes. 157 (104 women, 53 men) students belonging to the different regions of Chile were evaluated. The applied assessment instrument corresponds to an integrative exam, which considers all the activities in which the student participated in the platform.

To determine the academic performance by sex, the main indicator used corresponds to the gender gap, which is understood for the purposes of this study, as the difference between women and men. This gap is always calculated as the difference between the indicator of women and the indicator of men, in this way, a positive gap indicates that women perform better than men, therefore, a negative gap will show that women have a I perform worse than men.

One of the main findings of this study when analyzing the gender variable in the academic program mentioned above showed that there is an increase in the participation of women, this phenomenon is observed in each of the three mentions of the Master in Education. The final report indicates in more detail each action according to the gender for each mention.