Adolescent peer influence processes: Conceptualization and measurement

Modelling the evolution dynamics of the academic performance in high school in Spain. Probabilistic predictions of future trends and their economical consequences

“…The major novelty of this contribution is the treatment of academic underachievement as a problem that is transmitted through social contact including its mathematical type-epidemiological modeling. We point out that we used hypotheses appearing in other studies [23,29,31,[42][43][44][45][46][47], as homogeneous mixing, habits transmission dynamics and genre groups. In addition, the model allows us to see how things will evolve over the next future.…”

“…We have also taken into account pedagogical studies [42][43][44][45] which confirm that exist a significative difference of academic performance depending on genre and also consider that the transmission of academic habits is carried out between students of the same academic level [23,46,47]. However, in this improved model we consider not only the transmission of bad academic habits but also the transmissions of good academic habits among Bachillerato students in the same academic level.…”

“…This statement is justified by the differences in age and maturity between students that belong to different educational levels, their physical location in the high school, etc. [23,46,47]. In the model, these considerations will be taken into account even for Bachillerato students of different academic level.…”

“…This motivates the fact that our model considers genre into its formulation. We also consider that the transmission of academic habits is carried out between students of the same academic level [23,46,47]. Thus, to build the model we suppose that a student has academic underachievement when she/he gets into study habits transmitted by students with bad academic habits.…”

“…This motivates the fact that our model considers genre into its formulation. We also consider that the transmission of academic habits is carried out between students of the same academic level [23,46,47].…”