Analysis of the desertion, graduation and permanency in different educational contexts.

A way of evaluate the evolution of a study plan is across the follow-up of the academic results of his pupils. The aim of this work was to realize the follow-up of two cohorts of the career of Odontolgy in the UNLP and a comparative analysis between    them, considering: matriculation, desertion, graduation, permanency and academic performance. There was realized a study of descriptive and retrospective type. There were in use numerical information obtained of the database of the Program of Evaluation and Pupils' Follow-up and Gone Graduated from the Folp (PESAE). The population was integrated by all the pupils of the cohorts 1980 (n=145 and 1990 (n=597). The first one with a study plan of 25 annual matters and regime of final examination. The second one with a plan of 59 four-month courses and regime for promotion or final examination. There was checked the situation of the students according to three categories: gone graduated, passive and active, establishing in every case the permanency in the system and academic performance. Distribution tables of frequencies were constructed obtaining the following results: Cohort 1980: it became exhausted in 1997 with 80,69 % of gone graduated from which the major percentage (50 %) did it in five years with a middle average of 6,20 and 19,31 % remained passive with 43 % without approving any matter. Cohort 1990: it went graduated 56 %, of them the major percentage it did in 6 years with average 6; 41 % is passive and the majority with an alone approved matter; 3 % of the pupils continues assets.
It is possible to conclude that the matriculation, the desertion and the permanency were major in the cohort 90 of four-month regime, whereas the graduation was top in the cohort 80 of annual regime. The academic performance does not have significant differences.
Key words: matriculation - desertion-graduation-plan.