Studies on academic performance according to gender in students of information technology faculty at Universidad Latina of Costa Rica

This paper studies the academic records at the Universidad Latina of Costa Rica (San Pedro) Information Technology Faculty during the 2011 and it is an extension of our first research that was focused on the first period of the same year [9]. It has been proposed the courses were grouped by two characteristics: a) competence components, and b) knowledge area. They were divided into seven different groups to determine on each, if there is a gap between genders and if it is necessary to take specific initiatives to reduce the found gap. The previous analysis [9], show that women consistently have better performance, higher frequency approving courses and less average abandoning them. There is an exception in the sciences courses. With new data, for a complete academic year instead of a four-month period, there is no difference in sciences courses performance, but stills about the dropout rates in this area.