Spatial Analysis of the National Evaluation of Scholastic Achievement (ENLACE) in Schools of the Municipality of Juarez, Chihuahua

• Main Authors: Luis Ernesto Cervera Gómez, Gilberto Martín Lizárraga Bustamante, Claudia Paola Sánchez Guillén
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2008-05-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa
• Subjects: Exámenes de gran escala; escuela; rendimiento escolar; sistema de información geográfica.
• Online Access: http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/181

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">This research was focused on analyzing the results of the first National Assessment of Academic Achievement for Scholar Centers (</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span>ENLACE</span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">; acronym in Spanish) applied during the year 2006 in the Municipality of Juarez (State of Chihuahua, Mexico). In order to conduct the spatial analysis a geographical information system (</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span>GIS</span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">) was used to make a georeferenced database were all variables were connected to a point representing a school. Results of the examinations expressed as deficient, elemental, good en excellent were spatially distributed over the urban area of Ciudad Juárez. Apparently there is a high spatial correlation between<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span>ENLACE</span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">’s results with the socioeconomic level of people. In this way results going from good to excellent were spatially located over the sectors more developed of the city. Poor results going from Insufficient to Elemental were spatially located at places with higher deficits of infrastructure and low socioeconomic levels.</span><em style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br /></em>