Interactive System for the Analysis of Academic Achievement at the Upper-Middle Education in Mexico

Resumen

In recent years, there is an interest to find newways to analyze and process data from different sources. One of these ways is through user-centereddata mining, based on the fundamentals of the usability engineering and accessibility. The academic achievement, at Language and Communication and Mathematics, of students at the upper-middle educationin Mexico was analyzed through a partitional clustering algorithm. A variety of academic achievements were observed, highlighting Insufficient and Elementary in the evaluated population, while Good and Excellent achievements were achieved by a reduced number of  schools. This contrasts a notable difference between the achievements of the students, leading them to delay or stop their university studies because they obtain acertificate without the knowledge to pass the college entrance exams.